Comments on: Bum’s rush at J Street gives a hiphop Jew clarity: I’m no Zionist

By: ehrens

ehrens — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:15:15 +0000

I recognize the legality of Israel with its 7.5 million citizens. I recognize the legality of the nation of Switzerland with its 7.6 million citizens. But I’m not a Zionist, and I don’t even know the word for someone who recognizes the rights of the Swiss to their own state. It seems quite unnecessary.

Just like Zionism.

There is no need for Jews to feel bad about not being Zionists.

By: Chaos4700

Chaos4700 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:51:51 +0000

Well. If you forget Israel’s mandatory military conscription, of course. Though I suppose you’ll come up with some moral equivocation that makes those 300 children slaughtered in Gaza culpable as “military targets,” so.

By: Chaos4700

Chaos4700 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:45:17 +0000

The Zionist project is the expansion project. It always has been. Name a time in Israel’s history when Israel wasn’t razing Palestinian homes. Or assassinating Palestinian leaders. Or confiscating natural resources from others.

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:39:22 +0000

Actually, there is some left, civilian Israelis and civilian Palestinians.

J Street’s people. Lovers of Israel. Lovers of Palestine.

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:38:28 +0000

The expansion project is built on bodies and lies. The Zionist project is built on need and rising to it.

The Arab project is similarly built on bodies and lies, as is the militant Palestinian, as is the Marxist, as is the imperialist.

In that silhouette (those that aren’t built on bodies and lies), there isn’t anybody left.

By: Chaos4700

Chaos4700 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:12:05 +0000

One of these things is not like the other… one of these things does not belong…

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:10:30 +0000

Well,
I’m still pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-Palestinian.

By: Tuyzentfloot

Tuyzentfloot — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:03:25 +0000

I am not a nationalist This muddies the “dual loyalty” issue a bit doesn’t it. Well I like it – but where I come from there are more people who already become nervous at the mere sight of a flag.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:29:02 +0000

There are physical walls you can touch, e.g., on certain stretches of the USA-Mexican border; those Israeli walls dividing Palestinians from their own self-preservation and ambition;
the former Berlin wall I spent my later teen years monitoring; in antiquity, the Chinese Wall. And there are walls of the mind; us versus the Other, both racist and religious.

Frolic down J-Street?

Please.

What is it about walls? Certainly they’ve been erected all over the place for a long time, both physically and mentally.

Walls, Phil’s shiksa (Yankee) wife speaks through her ancestors:
link to bartleby.com

View of Mending Wall:
link to english.illinois.edu

By: former coMMenter

former coMMenter — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:30:46 +0000

knock ‘em out da box, kev!