Comments on: ‘Haaretz’ runs a piece on anti-Zionist Marc Ellis, when will the ‘NYT’ get there?

By: ThorsProvoni

ThorsProvoni — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:50:58 +0000

David Shasha, Director of the Center for Sephardic Heritage in Brooklyn, NY, sees a fundamental problem in the ethnic Ashkenazi form of Judaism: Guest Article: A Broken Frame. I did not make the point in my blog entry, but Maimonides is not remembered so much as a great religious thinker or philosopher among Muslims but as a great doctor because from a Muslim standpoint Maimonides is not an original philospher but merely a popularizer of Arab Islamic philosophy among Jews. The comments section of Yeshiva Bochers Study Arabic discusses awareness of Maimonides' philosophy among Muslims. In general Maimonides and his family introduced Muslim practices as well as Muslim thinking to Jewish communities strongly under Maimonidean influence.

By: raj

raj — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:14:13 +0000

And Thom pretends that Israeli policy towards Palestinians is all peaches and cream. Thom propogates the usual propoganda lines like jews are persecuted in Iran. And when countered moves on to the next propoganda line

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:21:41 +0000

I just thought I would draw your attention to the following web article: " target="_blank">http://raelianews.org/news.php?extend.373 There are only two possibilities, either this is the truth or it is not. If it is not true , then I would be at a loss to understand what or who's purpose it would serve? Perhaps one might say he is suffering from some delusion ? However If he is telling the truth then one would have thought this was of some import to Israel. Ultimately we are all family on this planet going to have to come to terms with accepting each other's differences in peace. if we do not then our humanity will go the way of the many humanities that have existed on this very ancient planet.

By: Thom

Thom — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:26:01 +0000

Left off: Unlike the Palestinians who do have an official policy of genocide and have tried it many times before.

By: Thom

Thom — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:24:18 +0000

The Jews in Iran are subject to religious persecution. They have no Rabbi, their schools have been mostly shut down, those that haven't have been taken over and turned into Islamic indoctrination schools. Jews have been executed without trial for helping other Jews to emigrate. " target="_blank">http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-... "Iran's official government-controlled media often issues anti-Semitic propaganda. A prime example is the government's publishing of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious Czarist forgery, in 1994 and 1999.2 Jews also suffer varying degrees of officially sanctioned discrimination, particularly in the areas of employment, education, and public accommodations.". Also, last I checked, despite the persecution and murders of Jews in Iran, the Iranians don't have an official policy of genocide.

By: lovelyisraelis

lovelyisraelis — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:03:57 +0000

Right Thom Just like in Iran, where the second largest population of Jews in the Mid East resides. They have always insisted on their identity as iranian Jews, practice their religion freely, travel at will (including to israel), and shop at kosher groceries in Tehran. Pogroms? Hardly. Make up some more crap, Thom It's one area in which you plainly excel.

By: Thom

Thom — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:31:47 +0000

One state with Arabs and Jews living together is a pipedream. In reality, it would rapidly become one state with Arabs living and the corpses of the Jews being buried in mass graves.

By: Tenma

Tenma — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:49:32 +0000

In answer to your rhetorical question … When it's too late.

By: lovelyisraelis

lovelyisraelis — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:33:11 +0000

"No state, he writes, apocalyptically, can exercise power over others indefinitely." I don't see why this is necessarily the case. oh…and fred jerome's book on Einstein and zionism is WAY fascinating. interesting that pro-israel lout walter isaacson says nothing about any of this stuff. Isaacson's book is becoming a standard, due to all the hype, even though freeman dyson basically said it was junk in the NTRB.