Comments on: Birthright travel diary: ‘Outing’ myself on a kibbutz

By: aban

aban — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:11:10 +0000

No Mooser, it’s because Avi has no case. Switching to name-calling confirms that you have nothing real to say.

By: Mooser

Mooser — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:05:04 +0000

“Sorry. My “lying eyes” tell me nothing.”

Not when you’ve get ‘em shut tight, chump.

By: Mooser

Mooser — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:02:16 +0000

“My comment lampooned…”

That word, aban, “lampooned? I don’t think it means what you think it does.

By: Mooser

Mooser — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:59:35 +0000

ROTFL!

By: aban

aban — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:47:53 +0000

Avi: Sorry. My “lying eyes” tell me nothing. Which source of water in the Golan (or in Israel) ends up in Syria?

By: Avi

Avi — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:52:13 +0000

There’s no stream or river that flows eastwards from the Golan (south of the Hermon mountain) towards Syria. There’s nothing to dam or divert.

Aha. What you’re telling us is, “Who are you going to believe, your lying eyes or me?”

Nice try. Better luck next time.

By: aban

aban — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:50:31 +0000

Avi: I saw your map, but it is makes no point: Water going south and east flows into the Rokad and ends up in the Jordan. The entire Golan Heights is part of the draining basin of the Jordan, so there’s no motive to divert it.

There’s no stream or river that flows eastwards from the Golan (south of the Hermon mountain) towards Syria. There’s nothing to dam or divert.

Elsewhere you got Banias confused with Hama. They are on opposite edges of the Golan. The Hermon water indeed flows thru Banias, but it is not a hot-water spring, and is many kilometres away from the tri-state border. As already said, putting a dam there would be pointless.

Regarding Lebanon, the entire Israel-Lebanon border is on a ridge. Impossible to build any dams there, and indeed there are none.

This is also well established: Ad hominems are not very effective at convincing anyone.

By: Psychopathic god

Psychopathic god — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:57:56 +0000

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By: Chaos4700

Chaos4700 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:44:14 +0000

Kudos, Avi. Your dealing with aban has been positively brilliant. Thanks for the time and effort you put into refuting his crappy propaganda!

By: Mythbuster

Mythbuster — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:34:52 +0000

Yes. It’s nice to see “better use” arguments employed to justify ethnic cleansing, isn’t it?