Comments on: this year in al-Quds

By: Jake in Jerusalem

Jake in Jerusalem — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:38:48 +0000

Thank you for your erudite contribution. For homework, go look up "erudite". MondoBigot.

By: lovelyisraelis

lovelyisraelis — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:08:01 +0000

From Jake's description it is clear that on both sides of the conflict, there is suffering. The Palestinians are confined to an open air prison and attacked by air sea and land. At the same time, Jews are suffering horribly too. They are not allowed to engage in their bizarre and ludicrous devil worship in the vicinity of several crumbling structures in Jerusalem. Who said you lacked perspective, Jake?

By: Jake in Jerusalem

Jake in Jerusalem — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:03:21 +0000

Another ignorant posting from the goofballs at MondoLies. The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is the holiest site in all of Judaism. Islam has claimed it for itself, as Islam has done to very holy sites of several other religions. In1967, immediately after the Six Day War, Moshe Dayan (an anti-religion activist) granted control of the Temple Mount to the Waqf, the Islamic authority. To keep the Waqf happy, Jews are not supposed to enter the holiest site in Judaism and by Israeli law are not allowed to pray AT ALL. The Waqf actually sends inspectors to shadow any Jews who visit to ensure that they do not move their lips. No kidding! No prayer books, no groups of Jewish tourists more than a handful at a time, no Jewish religious articles, no mumbling of prayers off by heart. Israeli law COOPERATES with this ISLAMIC BIGOTRY… and MondoLies is worried about… T-SHIRTS???? What a bunch of ignorant MondoBigots!

By: Citizen

Citizen — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:41:51 +0000

Good question. Compare those Israeli t-shirts with the sniper logo on civilians.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:39:30 +0000

The apartheid S African regime said the same thing. If this is so, then the model for evil that was the Nazi State, that is, all its means and ends and the interrelation between them, must be irrelevant. The concept of Fascism too? The internationally recognized "crimes against humanity," and "aggressive war" etc were all extracted from that model. And those ex post facto laws hung the German leaders at Nuremberg. Nothing is more appropriate than to make the comparison when it seems to fit, and to the extent it does not fit, should also be argued. The same crime is very rarely committed in exactly the same way. The principles of the criminal law as articulated by legislation (and common law in the USA & England) are always applied to the facts in the instant case.

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:42:54 +0000

RE: "...their orange summer camp shirt, which read ''Al-Quds – Arab Culture Capital," police officers told them that if they wish to enter, the shirts must come off..." SEE ALSO: "Wiping Arabic Names Off the Map - Israeli Road Signs", By JONATHAN COOK, 07/17/09 (EXCERPT) Thousands of road signs are the latest front in Israel’s battle to erase Arab heritage from much of the Holy Land. Israel Katz, the transport minister, announced this week that signs on all major roads in Israel, East Jerusalem and possibly parts of the West Bank would be “standardised”, converting English and Arabic place names into straight transliterations of the Hebrew name. Currently, road signs include the place name as it is traditionally rendered in all three languages. Under the new scheme, the Arab identity of important Palestinian communities will be obscured: Jerusalem, or “al Quds” in Arabic, will be Hebraised to “Yerushalayim”; Nazareth, or “al Nasra” in Arabic, the city of Jesus’s childhood, will become “Natzrat”; and Jaffa, the port city after which Palestine’s oranges were named, will be “Yafo”.... ENTIRE ARTICLE - " target="_blank">http://www.counterpunch.org/cook07172009.html

By: Chauncey

Chauncey — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:43:04 +0000

Richard, stop that! or i am gonna' fall in love wid you!

By: eitanbenshlomo

eitanbenshlomo — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:44:30 +0000

It is ALWAYS innapropriate to make a Nazi comparison. It's done far too much these days. One thing you might notice is that I compare NOBODY to Nazis ever. It's just a way of opting out of arguing on an intellectual level by making an emotional "low blows" to Jews who were effected by the horror. I really am going to try to limit my responses to people that make Nazi comparison save only to point out %99 it is not relevant to compare Jews or Arabs or anyone to Nazi.

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:40:38 +0000

To paraphrase Netanyahu (slightly altered): It is 1938 and Israel (not Iran) is Germany.

By: eitanbenshlomo

eitanbenshlomo — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:47:04 +0000

Again completely unrelated comment from Dickerson serving no purpose to the actual debate at hand.