Jews Sans Frontieres tweeted out the following article with the challenge, "Ynet, or The Onion? You decide!" Please register your vote in the comment section.
From the article "Addressing anti-Zionism":
The root of anti-Zionism must be sought elsewhere [from antisemitism] - in anti-colonialism. The belief that colonialism was an absolute evil is so deeply engrained in the contemporary Western psyche that all enterprises bearing any parallels to it are automatically censored. This explains why people whose heroes are Bolivar and Gandhi instinctively side with the Palestinians.
To these people, claims that God promised the Land of Israel to the Jews reek of religious fanaticism. To make the argument that Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East invites allegations that it pursues apartheid policies. To counter all these claims is time-consuming and requires a taste for nuances. But why should anyone trade nuances for the facile certainty that colonialism is inherently evil?
Zionism will only cease being demonized in the politically correct corners of the West once our schools and film industry cease to demonize colonialism. The politically correct depiction of the colonialist as a racist and covetous brute must give space to the majority of well-meaning administrators that helped build roads, schools, and hospitals for the natives.
It must be shown that colonialists administered law and justice far more fairly than most pre-colonial chieftains or post-colonial despots. It must be taught that human development indicators plummeted in the majority of African and Asian countries following independence.
Once an honest discussion about colonialism is tabled, hostility to Zionism will wane in leftist circles. Not because they will shed the belief that Zionism is a form of colonialism, but because it will be possible for them to appreciate the merits of Zionism.
“The politically correct depiction of the colonialist as a racist and covetous brute must give space to the majority of well-meaning administrators that helped build roads, schools, and hospitals for the natives.”
Last time I looked, Israel was building walls against the natives and highways for the colonizers. Did I miss something.
I vote “Onion”
I vote “Onion”
I think I’m going to cry.
I vote Ynet.
I wish I was in the land of cotton,
Old times they are not forgotten;
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
In Dixie Land where I was born,
Early on one frosty mornin,
Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.
RE: “Old times they are not forgotten” ~ Crowther
HASBARAPOCALYPSE: “Blacks were so much happier as slaves on a plantation!”
P.S. I can almost hear Dershowitz saying that!
your new avatar is the shit dickerson!! haha
… until external agitators came.
colonialism is good for indigenous peoples?
isn’t that what the colonizers say?
“we’re here to civilize the “barbarians”
(in return they get to steal the native’s land and resources)
except the colonizers invariably turn out to be the barbarians
able and willing to commit genocide
as from california to the coast of maine
Wot a pickle they’ve got themselves into!
So now they’ll be culling the net for publications quoting former colonial subjects stating there’s much to be grateful for from the colonial times. While I know there are some on the Brit Empire side (heard one or two just yesterday), I can’t see many on the US side favoring it – even though you’re a ‘post’ colonial state. Not white, black, brown or Native. Yet you’re their bestest fwend!
Atzmon claims Israel isn’t a colonial state since there wasn’t a ‘mother country’, though I’d disagree, in that there were ‘mother communities’. Which colonial model does Israel best mirror? It seems to have echoes and reflections of all the worst elements in any.
Atzmon claims Israel isn’t a colonial state since there wasn’t a ‘mother country’
That’s the standard hasbara line (refreshingly – if that’s the word I want – broken by R. Castro). It’s a very narrow definition of colonialism however, tailor-made for Israel, whatever the ideological and polemical needs of the tailor.
I do believe this argument is not original. It’s sort of a variation of the one the South has been using to defend the memory of their ante-bellum Shangri-la, oh whoops, Dan Crowther got there first.
Ah, the night they drove old Dixie down!
RE: “Ah, the night they drove old Dixie down!” ~ Mooser
ROBBY ROBERTSON RULES!!!
The Last Waltz, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (VIDEO, 04:16) – link to youtube.com
King Harvest (Has Surely Come), The Band [VIDEO, 03:37] – link to youtube.com
…The smell of the leaves,
From the magnolia trees in the meadow.
King Harvest has surely come…
ROBBY (sic) ROBERTSON RULES!!! Actually that may be why “The Band” broke up, but it’s ancient history now.
As an aside, Dickerson, oddly enough, I was looking for musicisns who might want to cover “The Band” songs just today. I’m not worthy, but maybe we could try.
RE: “ROBBY (sic)” ~ Mooser
REPLY: I knew it was Robbie, but apparently my brain (or at least my fingers) didn’t.
Robbie Robertson – link to en.wikipedia.org
P.S. Gotta love “Big Pink”!
The article is signed “Rafeal Castro”? This gets curioser and curioser. Oh well, maybe his great-great-great grandpa was a Conquistador.
Amazing!
As always, this kind of bluntness is a good sign — the more the veil of propaganda surrounding the issue is torn down, the more Zionists will be forced to stake out these indefensible positions.
Also, big admission:
Leftist anti-Zionism is not bred by anti-Semitism. The secular intelligentsia that supports Palestinians abhors Christian anti-Semitism and Nazi racism. Their favorite thinkers are Jewish intellectuals like Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Noam Chomsky. These anti-Zionists gladly rally against neo-Nazis and have no qualms about socializing with or marrying Jews.
It’s funny how the writer is insightful/smart enough to realize that, and at the same delusional enough to embrace a policy of rehabilitating colonialism. Good luck with that! Even if Western countries try to downplay or whitewash their colonial pasts, no one is going to be favorable to present day colonialism.
What’s also amusing is that the cosmopolitan, leftist “secular intelligentsia” he identifies sounds a lot like the antisemite’s Jew, including hints of race-mixing. Jewish minds are being corrupted by a sinister international cabal — where’s Captain Israel when you need him?
“It’s funny how the writer is insightful/smart enough to realize that, and at the same delusional enough to embrace a policy of rehabilitating colonialism. Good luck with that! Even if Western countries try to downplay or whitewash their colonial pasts, no one is going to be favorable to present day colonialism.”
I disagree. Neocolonialism is everywhere. Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan. Pretty soon Syria even. Bush used such expressions as “civilized world” in his speeches. A lot of people supported the Libya intervention because they knew that the Arab Spring could mean less Western control over predominantly Arab/Muslism countries. It is understood that Western people have a sovereign right to shape the Middle East as they see fit. Starting with Bush but with Obama’s rubber stamping (and Sarkozy who overturned the Chirac jurisprudence) colonialism is back with a vengeance. I grew up in a world where the Western world had been guilty of “colonialism” (and would not start aggressive wars too). Things have changed now. We’re almost back to square one. The only thing that is still taboo is the vocabulary. This guy is right that rehabilitating colonialism as such would be very beneficial to Greater Israel. And to me, he’s not the first to have this idea and I think this line of thinking has been thoroughly implemented for quite a while now. Sure everybody stops short of calling it colonialism but the Western World in the Middle East has been mimicking Israel in the occupied territories since the Iraq war.
What this guy describes as a wish is what is actually happening. He misses the big picture by wishing that people would use the actual world “colonialism”. It is true that they don’t us the word but it does not really matter. That France decided to become king maker in Libya without anyone raising any eyebrows is a testament to that. Just imagine France doing the same in 1965, three years after Algeria’s independence! Colonialism is the new flavor of the day. Just don’t call it that.
Neocolonialism is everywhere. Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan.
You don’t really have authentic colonialism without population transfer or colonists. In any event, the Zionists will have to get the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity repealed, because it criminalized all of the practices necessary for colonialism to occur (not to mention the 4th Geneva Convention, the Rome Statute, & etc.):
Crimes against humanity whether committed in time of war or in time of peace as they are defined in the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Nürnberg, . . eviction by armed attack or occupation and inhuman acts resulting from the policy of apartheid, and the crime of genocide, . . even if such acts do not constitute a violation of the domestic law of the country in which they were committed.
The thing that always gets me with colonialists is that they believe their way is the right way.
I know people who think South Africa has taken a turn for the worse since Apartheid fell.
Perhaps it has. But it’s their right to choose that ‘worse’. This is the principal that colonialists don’t get. People want to make their own choices, vote for their own governments and rule their own destinies.
But that’s not what this is about. It’s all about throwing in yet another point for discussion, another obstacle, another accusation, another way to distract from the real problem.
They’ll keep us all talking while they take more land, make new laws and drive the Palestinians out of Palestine.
The side bar reccomends us to an article:
“Israel, the pistol nation’ / Giulio Meotti
Op-ed: World can’t accept Zionism’s greatest transformation: Militarization of the Jew
“For visitors, it’s the most enduring impression: Guns are omnipresent, tucked inside belts, slung over soldiers’ backs, clutched chest-high at checkpoints. From cafes in Tel Aviv to settlements on rocky hillsides in Judea and Samaria, Jews carry the guns.”
Well, Mondoweiss might as well hang it up and shut down their server. When Y-net gets done endearing Israel and its Jew-carrying guns (did I get that right? oh well…) to the world, anti-Zionism won’t have a chance.
These articles in Y-net deserve wide dissemination and recognition.
RE: “The side bar reccomends us to an article: ‘Israel, the pistol nation’ / Giulio Meotti’ ” ~ Mooser
MY COMMENT: Giulio Meotti is an Italian Jew who seems to long for the “good old days” of Il Duce (when Mussolini “made the trains run on time”). I assume that, like Michael “Faster, Please” Ledeen, he is a devotee of “Italian Fascism”.
Giulio Meotti, a journalist with Il Foglio, is the author of the book, A A New Shoah: The Untold Story of Israel’s Victims of Terrorism.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
Giulio Meotti: J’Accuse on Pollard
Posted by Israel Insider on August 23, 2011 at 9:21am in General Discussion
SOURCE – link to israelinsider.net
P.S. Videocracy, 2009, NR, 85 minutes
Its promo ads banned by Italy’s state broadcasting agency, this film reveals how salacious television productions enable the ongoing reign of Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s three-time prime minister and top media mogul.
Director: Erik Gandini
Netflix Availability: Streaming and DVD (Streaming until 3/7/12)
NETFIX LISTING – link to movies.netflix.com
Videocracy – Trailer (VIDEO, 02:17) – link to youtube.com
RE: “Giulio Meotti is an Italian Jew who seems to long for the ‘good old days’ of Il Duce (when Mussolini ‘made the trains run on time’). I assume that, like Michael ‘Faster, Please’ Ledeen, he is a devotee of ‘Italian Fascism’.” ~ me, above
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
SOURCE – link to en.wikipedia.org
Evil will be demonized only as long as we can not convince the world to love demons….?
Precisely….bravo.
Google didn’t turn up anything else on the topic from the named author, Rafael Castro. Put me down for Onion.
Rafael Castro does not show up except for this article when searching YNET either. I found myself carefully checking to make sure that today wasn’t April 1 as well.
I guess that means I’ll go Onion as well – though it is becoming more common for Onion articles to be indistinguishable from what can be found in other quality newspapers.
Things are starting to become surreal in Israel.
Entertaining, perhaps, but it’s also a clear sign just how little ‘they share our values’.
Baloney.
“The politically correct depiction of the colonialist as a racist and covetous brute must give space to the majority of well-meaning administrators that helped build roads, schools, and hospitals for the natives.”
This is pretty much standard talk on the right. Back when I used to read it, COMMENTARY always seemed to be publishing articles trying to whitewash the colonial days, long before Niall Ferguson got in the act. But not just the right–I think a fair number of self-described liberals would also make the same arguments. It underlies the brutality of Western foreign policy in general–we’re bombing, invading, and overthrowing governments for their own good.
The irony is that the same arguments could be made for the Soviets in Afghanistan. They were standing up for modernization, women’s rights, the 20th century against people who threw acid in the face of college coeds who didn’t keep them covered. And Afghanistan descended into further chaos when they left, which only ended when the Taliban took over. So there’s probably something wrong with an argument that could be employed to justify the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. (Chomsky used to point out how similar the justifications the Soviets gave for their war were to our justification for being in Vietnam.)
And yes, many of the arguments defending Israel are from the same school of thought, just given a particular ethno-religious twist.
From the opening paragraphs–
“It is a curious paradox that despite its many achievements in all fields, Israel has yet to craft a convincing strategy to combat anti-Zionism. One of the reasons for this is that the roots of this phenomenon have been misdiagnosed.
Leftist anti-Zionism is not bred by anti-Semitism. The secular intelligentsia that supports Palestinians abhors Christian anti-Semitism and Nazi racism. Their favorite thinkers are Jewish intellectuals like Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Noam Chomsky. These anti-Zionists gladly rally against neo-Nazis and have no qualms about socializing with or marrying Jews. ”
The fascinating thing about this article is that the author mostly gets it right. The roots of anti-Zionism are in anti-colonialism (at least on the left end of the spectrum) and if more liberals realized this and understood that to defend Israel you have to use some of the same arguments that defenders of colonialism use, it’s going to change a lot of minds.
Though not all minds. IMO a fair number of self-described liberals really do have the old colonial mentality, even if they don’t admit it, and so their defense of Israel is not some bizarre inconsistency but part of how they think about the rest of the world. The NYT editorialists sometimes come across this way.
The roots of anti-Zionism are in anti-colonialism (at least on the left end of the spectrum)…
I’d disagree. I think the roots of anti-Zionism are in opposition to ethnic nationalism, colonialist or otherwise, which is rooted in beliefs in racial/ethnic supremacy. Would there honestly be little or no opposition to Israeli actions if all its Jewish inhabitants were indigenous in 1948? Would that excuse ethnically cleansing a majority of non-Jewish Palestinians, and denying the human rights of the few that remained? Was Germany any less repulsive when it was committing genocide and ethnically cleansing people from German lands instead of African lands?
“Would there honestly be little or no opposition to Israeli actions if all its Jewish inhabitants were indigenous in 1948? Would that excuse ethnically cleansing a majority of non-Jewish Palestinians, and denying the human rights of the few that remained?”
Okay, good point, but in the cases that I can think of that are most similar to Israel and the Palestinians you have some group of European descent moving into an already inhabited land and taking over. That’s all I meant. Sure, it’d be just as objectionable if group A and group B had lived there all along, and then group A decided to drive out or enslave or oppress or (worst case) wipe out group B.
I hadn’t noticed snowdrift made my point upthread, so my second post was redundant.
But they practiced Holocaust in Africa before trying it in Europe.
Holocaust is a long standing human activity. Possibly the first were the Neanderthal.
If colonialism may trump self determination when all parties share common prosperity, even if in different levels, then why the hell is this idiot defending zionism?
I mean, I always thought that zionism was a 19th century jewish proto-nationalism, and jewish self determination was its core value.
It’s freaking impressive, the length people go defending this nonsense.
“It’s freaking impressive, the length people go defending this nonsense.”
Aw, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Have you read stuff by Newclench and Hophmi and rest? Heck, they go just as far, but they go round and round in circles so it takes longer to get there. As if that makes the destination any better.
Mooser, I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe among the Diaspora in Brazil.
But what makes this piece of filth on Ynet special is its attempt to PRAISE what zionists usually try to conceal. You know, hasbara is built basicaly on a) we are not racists; b) this is not racism; c)we are a democracy; d)look thos evil arabs, they are worse human rights violators.
But this? This would be the equivalent of a racist proud exactly of BEING openly racist, because racism is a good thing afterall.
“Mooser, I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe among the Diaspora in Brazil.”
Lexikon, as far as I’m concerned, what happens at Carnival stays there. Besides, life can’t be all frum, frum, frum! All the balebatisheh yiden should samba topless through Rio at least once.
We are not Vegas, nor the its kosher version, Birthright.
But seriously, jewish community here is very conservative. GOP style.
This article reminded me of a scene from Monty Python’s Life Of Brian, in which Jewish Zealots complain about Roman colonialism: link to youtube.com
TomAmitaiUSA,
I’m glad that you posted that Monty Python YouTube. That scene “What have the Romans ever done for Us?” stand out as a comedic warning to the Left, who usually bicker and quibble amongst themselves so much that they are ineffective.
This is the key quote from the Wikipedia article. link to en.wikipedia.org
Political satire
The film pokes fun at revolutionary groups and 1970s British left-wing politics. “What the film does do is place modern stereotypes in a historical setting, which enables it to indulge in a number of sharp digs, particularly at trade unionists and guerilla organisations”.[24] The groups in the film all oppose the Roman occupation of Judea, but fall into the familiar pattern of intense competition among factions that appears, to an outsider, to be over ideological distinctions so small as to be invisible; “ideological purity”, as Cleese once described it. Michael Palin says that the various separatist movements were modelled on “modern resistance groups, all with obscure acronyms which they can never remember and their conflicting agendas”.[25]
The People’s Front of Judea, composed of the Pythons’ characters, harangue their “rivals” with cries of “splitters” and stand vehemently opposed to the Judean People’s Front, the Judean Popular People’s Front, the Campaign for a Free Galilee, and the Popular Front of Judea (the last composed of a single old man, mocking the size of real revolutionary Trotskyist factions). The infighting among revolutionary organisations is demonstrated most dramatically when the PFJ attempts to kidnap Pontius Pilate’s wife, but encounters agents of the Campaign for a Free Galilee, and the two factions begin a violent brawl over which of them conceived of the plan first. When Brian exhorts them to cease their fighting to struggle “against the common enemy,” the revolutionaries stop and cry in unison, “the Judean People’s Front!” However, they soon resume their fighting and, with two Roman legionnaires watching bemusedly, continue until Brian is left the only survivor, at which point he is captured.
Other scenes have the freedom fighters wasting time in debate, with one of the debated items being that they should not waste their time debating so much. There is also a famous scene in which Reg gives a revolutionary speech asking, “What have the Romans ever done for us?” at which point the listeners outline all forms of positive aspects of the Roman occupation such as sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, public health and peace, followed by “what have the Romans ever done for us except sanitation, medicine, education…”. Python biographer George Perry notes, “The People’s Liberation Front of Judea conducts its meetings as though they have been convened by a group of shop stewards”.[26]
It is indeed Ynet, but some of the artwork from the original Hebrew edition didn’t make it into the English language version. There’s this photograph, for example: link to theage.com.au The Hebrew caption reads: “Tel-Aviv, Feb. 2012″.
They’re not going to eat that, are they Shmuel? I mean, you’re the expert, but aren’t tigers, as carnivores…..
Eat it? Heaven forfend. Just posing with one of the natives.
I get the feeling this article makes you a little uncomfortable, Shmuel. Was it you who was once (long time ago) employed to write similiar (if undoubtedly more intelligent and subtle) things for Israeli defense? Please excuse me if I’m thinking of someone else.
At any rate, where do you stand on this. I think Y-net got hoaxed, spoofed. Do you?
Mooser,
Uncomfortable? Not in the least. The propaganda I wrote while in the army was total crap – usually dictated by others or following formulae set by others. I take comfort in the fact that the announcements I sent out and the answers I gave were wholly unconvincing.
As to the spoof/serious conundrum, ideas like Castro’s are well within the boundaries of what passes for rational discourse in Israel, although I’m sure the author prides himself on “thinking outside the box”. In other words, believe it or not, in Israel this is not nuts.
“In other words, believe it or not, in Israel this is not nuts.”
You know what, Shmuel? I can only conclude that living in Israel (as Sir Greenbaum says) “is no job for a boy who is Jewish”.
I’d rather move to Shaker Heights, where I’ve got some connections in dry goods.
Belgian Congo Hatikvah
link to youtube.com
Rubber and murder, slavery in its worst form.
Under terms of the General Act of the Berlin Conference, Leopold pledged to suppress the East African slave trade; promote humanitarian policies; guarantee free trade within the colony; impose no import duties for twenty years; and encourage philanthropic and scientific enterprises. Contrary to his pledge, beginning in the mid-1880s Leopold issued a series of decrees that eventually violated these conditions.
link to yale.edu
I would watch the future career of the article with great interest. I get a funny feeling Y-net got spoofed.
After a great deal research, I have discovered that much of R. Castro’s Ynet article is in fact copied from an article by one H.W. Cartwright, published in The Pondicherry Times, on 9 November, 1879.
Here is a snippet from Cartwright’s original piece:
So you are going with the “spoof” angle, too?
hmmm this is interesting……..great catch shmuel.
link to warincontext.org
Woodward is also wondering who the F this cat is……..
“So you are going with the “spoof” angle, too?”
Sounds like it. It fooled me since I don’t think it’s too different from what I used to read in “Commentary”. But that photo Shmuel linked seemed conclusive.
Perhaps you are being facetious here, but the photo Shmuel linked isn’t actually from Ynet. He was joking.
“Perhaps you are being facetious here”
I’ll never tell. On the article, I believed it was legit at first, but then was persuaded it had to be a hoax because it was so ridiculous, but then, why would that mean it had to be a hoax? Right now I’m in a quantum superposition of belief states.
So you are going with the “spoof” angle, too?
Although Purim is upon us, I happen to think Mr. Castro is dead serious. Prolonged cognitive dissonance does strange things to the mind and, as a long-time Jerusalem-based foreign correspondent once said to me, “You can’t make this stuff up.”
Wow, this place is great! Ask a question, (spoof, or not?) and the answer is right there, a couple of comments below! Oy such technology!
So you’re going for “not a spoof”? Wait don’t bother answering, I’ll just scroll down a bit.
I’m still waiting to hear, just once, a proponent of ‘benevolent colonialisation’ volunteer their own nation for ‘improvement’.
“I’m still waiting to hear, just once, a proponent of ‘benevolent colonialisation’ volunteer their own nation for ‘improvement’.”
Well, some people might say that the USA did that with China, on a financial level.
And benevolence is a cornerstone of Confucian philosophy, so it should turn out just fine!
I’ll give Rafael Castro credit in his article for wishful thinking. He might try proof-reading his ideas a few times over, before submitting them. That’s something a bed-wetter may dream up, but it suggests that more propaganda of colonialism will stabilize the Zionist concept for the anti-Zionists. Yeah, good one… This is fantasy revisionism.
I give him a hint, stop the occupation and land grabbing, and Zionism can be whatever the hell it wants to be. It’s not the idea of Zionism that makes people sick, it’s the actions and the cover-up of the crime that is the problem.
On a couple of occasions where I had to deal with right-wing and far right Israelis on fora they said to me something to the effect of “You keep talking about colonialism in such bad terms, what’s so bad about it?”. I couldn’t believe my eyes!
“The politically correct depiction of the colonialist as a racist and covetous brute must give space to the majority of well-meaning administrators that helped build roads, schools, and hospitals for the natives.”
Admitting this is “true”, Israel isn’t even good at that because it’s destroying the natives’ roads, schools and hospitals on every occasion..
“It must be shown that colonialists administered law and justice far more fairly than most pre-colonial chieftains or post-colonial despots. It must be taught that human development indicators plummeted in the majority of African and Asian countries following independence.” (Rafael Castro)
It must be shown, that Zionists until today are violating human rights to maintain a Jewish majority and that they’re preventing Palestine’s independence since the Balfour declaration.
Where the British Empire was concerned, it was a mixed picture. The British who ran the show were nearly all racist, and, as well as the British Government tapping wealth from the Imperial possessions, there were plenty of covetous brutes exploiting the situation for their private enrichment as well.
There were also plenty of well-meaning administrators (yes, racists, and sometimes the same people as those in the previous paragraph) who helped to build roads, schools, and hospitals for the natives. They improved public health and education, put down such charming native practices as thuggee and suttee, and generally thought it their duty, for the sake of the natives, to make the colonies follow the best of British practice. They taught cricket.
But as far as Zionism is concerned, I agree with tree.
Colonialism had better days and worse day. On a good day, railroads, civil service etc. On a bad day, mass starvation, e.g. Ireland, Bengal, Xhosaland.
This is a classic Onion piece:
link to theonion.com
when I have lunch with someone whom says they are building settlements & working on the wall construction only because they need to eat, it seems like he should be growing his own food instead. He said, they will get someone else, it doesn’t matter, people will be shipped in to do it. I say let them ship them in, maybe they won’t be ptsd (shell shocked or numb to the events of the last fifty years as everyone there has become. It is so terrible for me to see the effects. Not to mention all the misinformation here in the states etc with the god giving to us line. They should be straight forward as tell the world , we want it & have the weapons & means to take it. Or just think of all the money wasted throughout the years by building newer weapons tech etc. The israelis could have legally bought every inch of land legally & had friends instead of wanting to be so disliked forever, just is not logical in my point of view
“The israelis could have legally bought every inch of land legally & had friends”
Sure, don’t you remember all those Palestinians saying how much they hated Palestine, admitting they were incompetent to administer it, and running around offering ever-cheaper prices for their lands, homes and olive groves and farmlands?
Why I bet the Palestinians in the refugee camps are laughing up their sleeves right now! “Ha, ha, ha the Zionists got stuck with it!”
It is almost like jim jones has been reincarnated in all these “in power people” , I guess that much power altimately blinds the real world out & replaces it with eugenics, and cultism.
Obviously a total spoof, and a clever ynet editor must know it.
You’ve never met anyone who was completely without shame or remorse before, have you?
25% of the comments on the Ynet site seem to think it is satire or stupid and funny.
“25% of the comments on the Ynet…”
You read the comments on Y-net? You are, my friend, a much braver person than me! I literally cannot read them. They make suicide look like a very attractive option.
I just read the comments’ titles this time.
Lighten up, people, forget the paeans to colonialism. If someone on Ynet claims that anti-semitism can be cured by showing movies about the holocaust – and at this time of year en plus …
Funny how hophmi is too busy telling gays to shut up and Fredblogs is too busy lusting for a blitzkrieg of Tehran to make any comments on this article, huh.
My reaction to this article was jealousy. I have authored a few satiric posts on MW — about asymmetric warfare and ADL and the Alabama governor — and would have loved to claim credit for every word of this article as well, but it was far too clever for me to even think of it. This either is a brilliant hoax submitted to ynet that the editors were too dense to recognize, or an utterly shocking creation of true hasbara. Or, it could be both. It could be Rafael Castro’s spoof that ynet unwittingly presented as a legitimate point of view. Anyone familiar with Alan Sokal’s brilliant hoax from about 15 years ago? Look it up.
Call me conceited, but I think I could have written it. What I could never ever conceive of is any Y-net editor being dumb enough to accept it. As usual, I’m wrong.
If it’s a spoof, it’s pretty pithy, which is only appropriate, considering the subject.