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The War of Ideas in the Middle East
I have this agreement with animals [like flies, dogs and sharks]: I know what you're about. As long as you don't attack me, we'll live in peace and harmony. The other option is obvious.
@ Fredblogs
On the internet anyone with a fancy moniker is a 'nobody' who wants to be a 'somebody.' As such your 'credentials' are meaningless.
Phil, Adam, Annie, Allison, Alex, et al, have more courage in their fingernail clippings than you will accumulate during a life wasted on this planet. But hey, its your life, not mine.
@ evan,
It's always another person's fault so nobody has to be held accountable?
side note:
@ Ellen
Fred blogs. He doesn't write [or read].
After this Pitts' stop, team USA noticed one wheel had been left behind on the simmering tarmac...
Idiocy doesn't need any explanation, because it's used by idiots. Even non-idiots understand that.
I'll wait and see whether François Hollande let's his [Judaic] religion prevail over being truthful to the cause of justice.
In other words, I don't care for what people promise to do. I only respect what they've done.
@ Citizen,
Going after a person's looks instead of his or her deeds, isn't fair at all, imho.
side note:
Q: But we will fight back without violence or terror – but through active support of our beloved nation and people.
R: My writing coach would seriously kick me in the butt if I'd fathered the above...
The only thing that counts is an IAGT [Israeli-Auschwitz-Guilt-Trip] and the rest of the world's suffering imaginary BS. I didn't receive the memo, but I get this.
@ OlegR,
side note: Is a rapist in your eyes just a staged vertical voluntary semen dispenser?
The human body's magnificent in many ways. It can survive being exposed to heat and cold by shutting down or giving up on certain less vital parts [like fingers/hands/toes/feet/ears/lips]. In case of a hunger strike the devastation is far more severe, because in its attempt to protect the most vital organs that ensure life itself, it starts to digest its own muscles. Needless to say, they'll never come back, thus even if these hunger strikers are set free, their lives will never be the same [those who've been on a hunger strike beyond 6o days].
The DA is protecting the victims... [so we don't know who the other 90 perverted guys/rabbis are]. Good to have justice on your side?
@ Seafoid,
Obviously I was wrong in my assessment. This time I don't mind being wrong at all. Any idea/s why the gov caved in?
Israel intimidates through rage, anger, violence, killing and wanton destruction. I don't think Israel will go soft [now] on so many hunger strikers. In fact [I think] Israel even welcomes this self-imposed 'hunger for death,' and die they [prisoners] will, because, given Israel's stellar humanitarian track record, that knee in the neck says it all.
Q: I was attacked in my own homeland, by my own people.
R: How may homelands can one have?
@ LanceThruster,
side note:
Q: ... which the Nazis maintained would protect the German gene pool.
R: And then they end up with Merkel? Or did they wish for a Miracle, but things got lost in translation?.
@ Les,
I think you'd be surprised. Aaron Russo - "America: Freedom to Fascism" @ link to video.google.com
Mad as Hell @ link to youtube.com
To me the word 'liberal' has as much appeal as a used condom. It has served its purpose, but now it's time to move on. Liberal Zionist is an oxy-moron.
@ OlegR.
link to guardian.co.uk
@ yourstruly,
It makes you wonder why, if wars are fought against individuals [Hitler, Saddam, etr al], why they last so darn long...
@ Light,
The whole cartoon looks sick to me...
@ Chaos4700
side note: how about the cops?
link to rawstory.com
I don't get it.
Whenever there's a war, fought by our armed forces [who do nothing but kill] the Germans become Krauts, the Vietnamese Gooks and the Muslims Rag/Towel-heads. The war on terror needs enemies, not friends.
OK. Then I'll boycott the boycott that's boycotting the boycott.
@ToivoS,
side note: Taxi gave us 'testicular acupuncture' and now you add 'chewing on broken glass' to it. One of these days I'll have a serious nightmare about this site. For what's worth; it made me lol
Blame the other guy. No connection between Israel and Palestine. We've been here before. Next!
In a world in which we know more about the Chinese 'dissident' Chen Guangcheng and hardly anything about Bradley Manning and more about Israel's 'suffering' than about the Palestinians plight, the world seems to me an apathetic audience, with a very selective memory, dysfunctional moral codes and a hypocritical stance that's sickening.
@Fredblogs,
Q: Because there are a lot more Zionists than anti-Zionists. If one tenth of one percent of the 6 million Zionists in Israel turned anti-Zionist, that would be 6000 people. If 10% of the few thousand anti-Zionists turned Zionist that would be a few hundred people.
R: or, to put it simpler:
zeix=conx -(isinx).2
Where:
ze = zion entity
con= convinced semites
sin= sinning semites
I always bring in my granddad when I want to say things I know I'll get into trouble for saying and it never fails to work. Every country's fucked up? I've only traveled to 16% of them, so I can't speak for the majority, but I don't agree with that notion, unless you refer to governments [in general].
Israel will not attack Iran. A bully progresses [only] through the exploitation of perceived weaknesses in others and the bluff of believing in its own strength. That changed in 2006. No imminent attack on Iran [smaller, weaker groups, yes, perhaps].
@ Elliot,
side note:
Q: flung his clock...
R: I'm glad you didn't end up with a typo here...
@ marcb,
Kim Karda$$hian'$ dad is dead? Bummer, I really should get out more and stop reading. Universality lives in one's heart and needs no one to defend or explain it. Basically it's not that complex at all , unless you're afraid of being a native American and another, way more developed creature enters the fray, than you're in trouble.
Q; "You can't eat an orange and then throw the peel away...
R: But you can uproot olive trees and throw lives away...
But you should know, Annie, all his source docs went down with the Titanic and mending frozen water is a time consuming affliction, especially whilst combined with the production of horse manure at the same time. Give the poor boy a break.
@ Winnica,
Citizen points out how MSM hands out information. You thinking for Citizen how he thinks for Americans is quite offensive, I think, don't you think?
For your entertainment link to youtube.com
Hi Annie,
You're only laughing because he's a joke, no?
@ OlegR,
Q: these mere words cause puke reflex from most Israelis.
R: Haven't you noticed how the word Israel causes gag reflexes in anyone [read non-Israelis] who's listening these days? I'd be worried, very worried if I were you [thank whatever I'm not]. Ready to walk alone?
Does anyone play chess, poker or both?
I suck at them [big time], but I do detect a pattern here [or so I think]. Why would a PM cut his election cycle short by one year?
Logically [given any politician's mindset] you'd max out any time given you. With no effective government in place [Israel] who's going to be held accountable for what, if something is about to 'happen' resulting in Israel 'having no option but to 'retaliate/defend' itself as a victim? What's Obama going to do? Show he can be tough on Israel during a US election cycle? Although I'm convinced this is BB Netanyahoo's grandeur and posturing, I've got this little voice in the back of my head [not that of one of my imaginary friends] yakking on and on about BB wanting to settle the score [and only he knows what that is]. Deep down in my heart [as I have expressed a few times here] I know Israel will not attack Iran, but playing with fire can result in severe burns and after having watched my friend burn to death when I was six, I'm rather scared of what that might entail and/or result in.
@ Philip Weiss,
Q: Who's the anti-Semite?
R: Any Israeli who kills Palestinians, Lebanese or other Muslims, gloats about it and defends and applauds ethnic cleansing, wanton destruction and property theft... and those who're critical of it?
@ OlegR
Q: Not bad, i have heard better though.
R: I was told to cease certain activities to improve hearing...
Israel's PM Ehud Olmert said its [2006] Lebanon war strategy was drawn up months in advance, a newspaper claims.
Lest we forget, eh?
Hi Annie,
'Straight No Chaser - Thelonious Monk'
@ Jamie Dyer,
Q: It was a survival mechanism...
R: May I suggest you watch Yoav Shamir's 'Defamation?'
@ OlegR,
Gays and lesbians have died at the hands of individuals and governments all over the globe. Don't use their suffering to defend the indefensible. Their struggle is their own, personal holocaust, not yours or mine.
@ piotr,
Q: African aliens may be snatching purses
R: Actually they were grey [to better blend in with the masses] but during entry [through the heat of the atmosphere] something went horribly wrong and now, instead of snatching up data, their on the beach. Ghonztor apologizes on behalf of himself and his people [they're squares, but what gives?].
@ OlegR,
As far as I know gay and lesbians are up against quite a lot of oppression and hatred around the globe, but according to you that's only an ME thingie?
Hi Annie,
Sometimes I feel like the alien in this clip, when some individuals open their mouth @ link to youtube.com
@ Fredblogs,
What would you have said during the Titanic's final moments?
Nobody cares about the iceberg; everyone focuses on the ship?
Israel's losing steam ever faster, fortunately for you, the shadows in the cave are mystifying and shrouded in hasbara fog.
@ piotr,
Q: I guess “a measure of progress” is a better one.
R: I fully agree.
@ pabelmont,
The only language a bully understands is brute force. You don't talk, you kick 'm in the nuts and smash his windpipe. Not advocating violence here, but Israel has to be hit were it hurts and imho that's finance/money/export/etc.
@ Woody Tanaka,
How many people have come to your door and tried to convince you to believe in nothing?
We both know the answer.
@ Citizen,
side note:
Q: the sole SuperPower
R: China is outpacing and outclassing unca Sam left, right and center. It's like watching your senile uncle punch a bag, only there isn't one.
@ Samuel T.,
How about this:
Israel's wrong, all intelligent people agree upon that.
How'd you spin that, because if you say 'Israel's right' you're supposedly not that intelligent, right?
Learn from the Chinese and see how they deal with 'soft detention' and other hasbara V. 2.0 linguistic tongue twisters.
Hi Annie,
side note: You'll always be a queen in my eyes. Your track record proves you're one.
@ OlegR.,
I agree. I appreciate the effort, but am less happy about being sidetracked [again].
@ Samuel T.,
Q: In my younger days I was (actually) a Rodeo Clown.
R: I'm sorry to have to inform you, sir/madam, but today you still act like one and in all honesty, it's very painful to watch. Israel = Good | the rest = bad. I get it.
@ eljay,
Having any opinion at all automatically lands you on either side of neutral. Individuals who pretend to be neutral when it comes to Israel are lying to themselves and hope I/you/we believe them @ face value #tweetgag.
@ Samuel T.,
Wrongs are being done all over the place, but this site happens to focus on Israel and Palestine and every time individuals like your good self want to drag the rest of the world into this particular niche it gets very crowded and the I/P conflict sidetracked. If you're an honest person [this is not a fallacy trap] I hope you have the guts to agree to/with the fact that most of Israel's atrocities, rampaging, destruction, pillaging, murder and killing are somehow kinda OKisch. Personally I'm allergic to apologists and men and women without a spine. If I wasn't married, I'd propose to this woman in a heartbeat. If you fail to see the courage this woman oozes out of every single pore of her body, you're indeed blinded by everything that's wrong in this world.
@ Samuel T.
Some people mistakenly belief that a woman will not be treated as harsh as a man possibly would be. The IDF couldn't care less, as is obvious. Too bad those Hasbara coffee breaks are so short, eh?
I admire and love brave and courageous women.
How about investing in the truth? I was taught simplicity outruns complexity and never to censor voices I didn't agree with [although that's tough at times]. Israel's allergic to the truth [although, in all fairness, it's government isn't unique in that derelict], so let the truth bite and sting.
@ RoHa,
Never heard about 'Breadbasket-On-Wheels' from the desert or 'Babylon Dessert' from a much colder place op north?
Really? Like there wasn't something like a King-Crane report predicting all the shite we've seen and witnessed over the past 6 1/2 decades?
link to wwi.lib.byu.edu
C'mon Mondoweiss, you can do better than this.
I am of the [firm] belief that Einstein wouldn't have come up with anything substantial had he not worked at a Swiss patent office and be married to t/his brilliant wife Mileva. I know I must be one of the very few people who doesn't look up to the guy, but my gut instinct tells me something's fishy here and over the years I've learned to listen more to my guts and less to my 'brain.'
@ RoHa,
1 - 0
@ radii,
Q: ...not the friends and allies of israel...
R: Friends and allies? Are you jesting?
@ mjrosenberg,
side note: how's your status on the USS Liberty survivors? Any progress yet?
When I read this article it made me wonder why this was/is possible in the first place link to atimes.com
@ CloakAndDagger,
I think it's sad state of affairs that only comedians can/are able or allowed to tell the truth. Not funny at all.
@ Antidote,
You have 'balls!'
Hi Annie,
Jokes are funny and I ain't laughing when I read blogs' bs.
@ yourstruly,
side note: no right minded citizen of Berlin will call him/herself 'ein Berliner.'
The peak production years of an olive tree are between 30 and 70 years old. Uprooting one now ensures a whole generation have to do without. That's the most evil of ideas behind the uprooting of every single olive tree. And then to think its branches were used to symbolize peace. How sick can reality get?
My family got kicked out of that country a few hundred years ago, but I won't hold it against them [although as a 666th generation of Toblerone survivors I'm still very much traumatized]. I was looking for Palestine in the holes of this slice of Emmentaler cheese, but it's labeled Switzerland and 'cheeseburg,' so I'm not 'getting' it...
@ piotr,
Do you think the same is applicable when you want to discus certain aspects of WWII? In my book the truth doesn't need any laws. Lies do.
@ Fredbloga,
It seems your automated, babelfish translation app is running out of steam. Aren't you afraid your spine will snap when you overstretch it, you know, lebensraum and all?
@ lysias,
Causing an acute truth-rash.
@ Freedblogs,
If you would unplug your head from the Sinai desert sands and have a good look around you'd see that the world around you and the ordinary people living in it are fed up with Israel and the Israelis bending over backward to defend indefensible atrocities, perpetrated by a hollow, shallow shell masquerading as a cocoon of non-existing and defunct democracy. You and your ilk are on a head-on collision course with a brick wall, but so full of yourselves that everyone who tries to warn you is either a self-hating Jew or 'some goy' [the rest of the world] if they live outside the apartheid walls and refuse to acknowledge the largest open-air prison as a full-fledged state. You are walking alone already. Open your eyes and have a good look at reality and don' be shocked.
And this is in dire need of an update @ link to fredblog51.islandblogging.co.uk
Is this the same country that has laid claim to the copywrong of the words 'holocaust + antisemitism C, R, TM as in need of laws to protect it?
Hi Annie,
One more correction:
celebrations of Israeli Independence day = celebrations of Israel's Independence day
No need to thank me, Annie. I want Mondoweiss to be a success and you know how easy it is for the usual suspects to sidetrack very important topics and subjects with their claptrap, distortions, half-truths and baloney. United we stand strong.
Daniel
My pleasure, Annie.
"We're allergic to the truth, so every time you guys open your mouths we get rashes and heartburn. That's not fair, very inconsiderate, rude and anti-semitic!" - IDF
pokemonspokesmanAbout power:
"The superior man cultivates harmony without being weak - how firm is he in his force of character! He stands erect in the middle without inclining to either side - how firm is he in his force of character!" - 'The Doctrine of the Mean' - Zhong Yong
Do you here that?
Isn't MSM's silence [about this case] adorable?
@ Woody Tanaka,
I thought that having a dead guy on a cross was enough of a guilt trip...? What's next, Verdun's trenches in Vegas?
I have the same feeling when I wade through Kansas' Killing Fields or look at the shoes of the Son of Sam and Ted Bundy.
@ Shingo,
"Sofa-dodgers!" - Mel Gibson
@ DICKERSON3870 ,
side note: are you familiar with the 'hip, hip'/'hep, hep' riots?
link to en.wikipedia.org
link to en.wikipedia.org
Picture ... a thousand words ... This image perfectly captures what real occupation looks like. It makes my heart cringe and triggers a nauseating feeling beyond believe. The sheer narcissistic arrogance is appalling and utterly despicable.
@ piotr,
The list of what israel didn't bomb, attack or kill is much, much shorter.
An allergic reaction to [the] truth.
@Citizen,
side note: French revolution is when and where governments around the globe learned not to hesitate to unleash armies on their respective populations.
Believe in democracy? Go and try to abide by it in the streets [not you, Citizen], but don't forget your bulletproof vest, anti-maze goggles, taser protections gear, teargas gadgets and baton-hardened helmet.
WaPo and NYT don't run by themselves, they're owned. Owners [in general] decide what goes into those/the papers or what sort of template should be used.
@ DICKERSON3870,
Q: It is, rather (and in its own words), to generate “a pro-active, pro-Israel agenda on campus.”
R: When are they going to learn [no pun intended] that they [pro-israeli students and israel] are judged by their actions and not by mere words?
P.S. writing words without their proper capitalized letters is not something I do because I'm having my 'childish moment.' I simply can't find it in me to justify making something look good while it stinks into the high heavens.
@ Fredblogs,
Give the Palestinians all the armament they need, and I'm sure they'll defend themselves in proper ways.
@ RoHa,
You're right. When I yelled 'Hey, Kim!' in Seoul last year, a whole mob of angry faces wasn't amused at all.
I liked that 'Meth Lab Found in Immigration Raids on Kosher Meat Plant ... source link to jta.org
Assad = Net-an-yahoo
Syrian Freedom Fighters = Palestinians
Take it from there.
@ Fredblogs,
Q: reading between the lines
R: Like in 'the next level, outside the box, etc.' do you really want me to think like a consultant with one function braincell?