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  • Saving Illinois from Senator Kirk
  • American Zionist responses to Tel Aviv riots-- largely indifferent, but some outrage
    • RoHa May 26, 2012 at 8:47 pm

      By "not known as such", I meant "not known as Scots-Irish". The term is not used in modern Britain.

    • RoHa May 26, 2012 at 1:21 am

      But they are not known as such in Britain. The British just think of everyone across the sea as Irish.
      Some are known as tribal, ignorant, belligerent, bigoted, trouble-making Northern Irish Protestants.
      Some are known as tribal, ignorant, belligerent, bigoted, trouble-making IRA Catholic terrorists.
      And the rest are just Irish, coming in varying degrees of tribalism, ignorance, and belligerence.

  • Turkish prosecutor recommends ten life sentences for Israeli generals behind Mavi Marmara attack
    • RoHa May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm

      "sentences of life plus 18,000 years"

      With maybe a couple of years off for good behaviour?

  • 'Obama will only go as far on Iran as AIPAC permits him to go'
  • Aaron Sorkin's anachronism
  • Video: Israeli mob demands all African refugees be deported from the country (and anyone who disagrees deserves to be raped)
    • RoHa May 23, 2012 at 9:42 pm

      So the great liberation of Jews from living under Gentile dominance, and the revival of Jewish values, Jewish culture, etc. etc., comes to this.

  • Philip Roth on the Israel lobby
    • RoHa May 26, 2012 at 1:11 am

      "It seems as if such a foreign policy majority of the electorates can be conveniently ignored – so far – without that the respective electorates would sanction their Governments or their responsible politicians/parties at next elections.'

      Here in Australia both major parties have their noses stuck up the Israeli arse, so it is very difficult to sanction them. Vote out one lot, and another lot gets in. Change of governing party is based on domestic issues.

  • The charmingest flashmob you ever did see
    • RoHa May 23, 2012 at 9:29 pm

      Fun to watch, and would think great fun to do.

      And it makes a point without screaming or whining.

  • Affirming a Judaism and Jewish identity without Zionism
  • Bill Clinton's $80 million swagbag includes some dough from 'Israel First' interests
    • RoHa May 23, 2012 at 9:36 pm

      "Credit Suisse also hired Clinton for a speech, at a $125,000 speaking fee, also in New York."

      And yet they could have had a speech from me for a mere $100,000!

      Come on, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, and all you others, tkae advantage of my special offers.

      I'll even negotiate bulk discounts.

  • 'Foreign Policy' peddles productive Iranian war theory
    • RoHa May 22, 2012 at 8:22 pm

      One of the great values of MW is that the comments show me I am not the only sane person in the world. There are at least two others.

  • Aharon Appelfeld's rage at the German language (and Arendt's need for it)
  • Feeling the hate in Long Island
    • RoHa May 21, 2012 at 8:30 pm

      I don't think I've ever seen the Dems do anything other than funnel huge sums of money into the pockets of rich with a very slightly different set of excuses.

    • RoHa May 20, 2012 at 8:07 pm with 2 replies

      "I think we are seeing the rise of some Anglo Tribalism….the idea that they are now the put-upon ones in America and entitled groups and minorities are getting special treatment at their expense."

      After watching the US both from outside and inside for more than 56 years, I can see how they would get that idea. The baleful influence of "identity politics", the continual emphasis on white guilt, and similar developments do not seem calculated to make the average American ex-worker (fired because of the economic disasters of recent years) feel comfortably at home in his country.

      This is not to say that the idea is correct, but I do find it understandable that people would hold it.

      "The danger is they do have some valid points in their complaints"

      But is anyone sensible actually prepared to deal with those issues? It seems to me that the Republican party wants to exploit that discontent for electoral purposes, but will not actually do anything practical to help. They will just continue funnelling huge sums of money into the pockets of the rich.

    • RoHa May 20, 2012 at 7:54 pm

      "His answer was: ‘ We don’t want the Jews to socialise with the gentiles ..."

      That's the way to win friends and influence people.

    • RoHa May 20, 2012 at 7:50 pm

      "[Ringer guy says this] Jews are always liberal, we believe in the rights of everybody, but at some point you have to like, take a stand on what's right for your people."

      And who are this Americans guy's "people"? Americans, perhaps?

  • What forestry teaches us about ethnic cleansing
    • RoHa May 22, 2012 at 8:08 pm

      "And the monster, if I'm not mistaken, is Cthulju."

      So you can see why I thought you were the same person.

    • RoHa May 21, 2012 at 9:02 pm

      His picture shows a green, multitentacled monster, but his style of thinking and writing is very like yours.

      Creepy.

    • RoHa May 20, 2012 at 8:48 pm

      If you do not know me as RH3, then there are two eljays on the internet. This is a disturbing thought for both of us.

    • RoHa May 20, 2012 at 7:11 pm

      Irishmoses,
      in a Another Forum which both eljay and I infest, it is regarded as a law that any post which corrects a grammar of spelling error will itself contain at least one such error.

    • RoHa May 20, 2012 at 7:08 pm

      @ eljay
      I'm about as certainble as can be.

    • RoHa May 19, 2012 at 9:37 pm with 12 replies

      "which is flaunting and violating modern international laws it agreed to abide by. Ironically, Israel flaunts and violates international laws "

      I don't see Israel flaunting international laws, but it certainbly flouts them often enough.

  • International attention must be paid to the Palestinian nonviolent movement
    • RoHa May 20, 2012 at 7:18 pm

      "And as Jews have always maintained a presences in the holy land, unbroken for thousands of years,"

      There have been Jews in the Holy Land for thousands of years. But they were not European and American Jews.

    • RoHa May 20, 2012 at 7:16 pm

      "I am not surprised at the abundant display of ignorance on show, hey RoHa."

      Not a good idea to show your ignorance of the 1930s and 40s here, gilagd.

    • RoHa May 20, 2012 at 7:14 pm

      Asking gilagd, I presume.

    • RoHa May 19, 2012 at 9:32 pm with 2 replies

      "The Jews were totally alone in the 1930′s."

      What sort of drivel is this? In the 1930 British, Australian, Canadian, South African, NZ, etc. Jews had the forces of the British Empire behind them. US Jews had the forces of the US behind them.

    • RoHa May 19, 2012 at 9:26 pm

      "And yet it’s the Jews that had no access whatsoever to Jewish Holy
      sites until 1967.
      And it’s the kingdom of Jordan, an Arab and a Muslim country
      that prevented this access"

      As I understand it, it was only Israeli Jews that were forbidden access.

    • RoHa May 19, 2012 at 9:23 pm

      "In the 1930′s and 40′s, the world turned its back, once again, on the Jewish people."

      Rubbish. We have gone over this many times. It is simply an insult to all those who fought, suffered, and died in WW2.

      And "Once again? (Though it does seem that at various times before the 1930s some of the "Jewish People" turned their collective back on the world.)

      "There is no rational reason that you can presented that can convince a Jew to trust an "international committee". "

      Can you present a rational reason why the rest of the world should trust Zionist Jews? They have shown themselves to be liars, cheats, thieves, murderers, and (for non-Israeli Zionist Jews) traitors to their countries.

  • Walzer says Jews were on the left because the left supported Jews
    • RoHa May 17, 2012 at 7:16 pm with 1 replies

      "I see that living altruistic tradition in people like Sarah Schulman, Hannah Schwarzschild, Adam Horowitz."

      But maybe what they show is just natural, decent, human fellow-feeling, and nothing to do with Jewish tradition at all. After all, you get the same sort of behaviour from Gentiles.

  • A London interruption
  • Rep. Pitts in damage control mode following call for Arafat-Sharon negotiations
  • 'The Nakba is BS': Right-wing Israelis protest student-run Nakba commemoration at Tel Aviv U
    • RoHa May 15, 2012 at 9:04 pm

      "Norman Finkelstein, then a graduate student, is credited with refuting the Peters hoax."

      I think Chomsky's support gave him the publicity he needed, since he was pretty well unknown at the time.

      David and Ian Gilmour put the boot in as well. Yehoshua Porath called it a complete forgery.

  • West Virginia newspaper: 'Apartheid imposed on Palestinians'
    • RoHa May 15, 2012 at 8:49 pm

      "However they have chosen to spread their fingers and allow peace and reconciliation to flow through and waste away."

      When did Israel ever offer peace and reconciliation to the Palestinians?

  • 'Orgy in the desert' fails to wed young Jewish woman to Zionism
    • RoHa May 17, 2012 at 11:47 pm

      Aaaaarrrgggghhh! Yes, the "don't" should be in there.

      Ghettoes are bad for the children, in that they cut them off from the greater society they live in. This is usually a disadvantage.

    • RoHa May 16, 2012 at 7:47 am

      "I think we should go fairly easy on 1st generation immigrants, especially economic immigrants or refugees – it’s not easy for them. "

      In general, yes. It varies with age and background.

      " they should be free to integrate as little or as much as they want."

      Don't entirely agree there. I think they should set up ghettoes.

      "idiot racist white bogans"

      If I am not already on record for this, I'll say now that I much prefer slim, smart immigrants to fat, stupid, bogans.

    • RoHa May 15, 2012 at 7:30 pm

      "Some people get several homelands to choose to live in, while others get practically none."

      What do you mean by a homeland? As a dual citizen, I can choose to live in Britain and Australia. (Via my wife, it would not be too difficult to go to live in Japan as well.)

      But my home is in Australia, so that is my homeland now.

    • RoHa May 15, 2012 at 7:26 pm

      "we can easily shed a lot of the old ethnic conflicts that belong to the ‘old world’ "

      Though the Serbian and Croatian immigrants seem to find it difficult. (Particularly in the later 1960s.)

      "It is much easier for our nations to be multicultural because of the whole ‘melting pot’ concept. "

      There is a tension between the ‘melting pot’ concept - which I approve of - and some standard versions of multiculturalism. The melting pot involves all the immigrants integrating into a mixture.

      Not too long ago I saw a video of some girls in Adelaide doing some Indonesian dancing at a festival. At least half the girls were blonde, with no sign of any Indonesian ancestry. Chicken tikka masala was invented in Glasgow, and chicken tikka pizza is a British national dish. Our PM, the Leader of the Opposition, and the openly lesbian Minister for Finance and Paper Clips (Penny Wong) are all immigrants. They all sound more Australian than I do. These are examples of melting pot integration, with the various strands coming together to form a single culture.

      The multiculturalists seem to me to want a sort of apartheid, by encouraging the immigrants to cling to their old ways, remain in separate "ethnic communities" and by slapping hyphenated labels onto them. This, first and foremost, unfair to the children. (It is also racist and immoral to exempt immigrants from their duties to society on the grounds that the immigrants are a bit brown.) They seem to think that integration is somehow wrong, in spite of the long history showing that integrated societies work far more smoothly than segregated societies.

    • RoHa May 15, 2012 at 6:49 am

      Australian is an ethnicity? Wow!

    • RoHa May 15, 2012 at 3:04 am

      Sexier than a bagel with jam.

      But the word "Jewish" doesn't make me think of her. I've never heard of her before.

      "in reality, like the rest of us, she did have an ethnicity"

      I don't think I've got one. I don't remember having one, but if I ever did have one, I don't know where it is now. Perhaps my wife put it away somewhere.

    • RoHa May 15, 2012 at 2:35 am

      "yet to me she was just laura,"

      And that is all she needs to be.

    • RoHa May 15, 2012 at 1:29 am

      "RoHa, you sound like an old fart"

      I plead guilty. (And you left out "boring". )

      I'm sure there are sexy Jews out there, but the word "Jewish" makes me think of things like funny black hats, Mooser, bagels, and Barbara Streisland.

      Of those, the ones nearest to sexy are the bagels, and they are not very.

      Good with jam, though.

    • RoHa May 15, 2012 at 12:40 am

      "i mean where's the sexy jewish setting?"

      I may sound rude, again, but I just can't fit the words "sexy" and "Jewish" together. No doubt there are sexy Jews, but, for me, all the connotations of "Jewish" simply put a damper on sexiness.

    • RoHa May 14, 2012 at 9:14 pm

      Now I see the point of being Jewish.

  • The neocon machine
    • RoHa May 15, 2012 at 12:54 am with 1 replies

      "Any chance the “coalition of the willing” will include British, Canadian, or Australian troops in an Israeli-American lead attack/war on Iran?"

      I have no doubt our arse-licking politicians will want to send Australian troops. I think the people are getting a bit fed up with Australian troops being sent to fight useless wars, so they might object.

  • On the sidewalk in Hamburg-- 'Hier wohnte'
    • RoHa May 19, 2012 at 12:16 am

      I'm glad I was alone when I clicked on that link.

    • RoHa May 16, 2012 at 9:22 pm

      "Permit me to be pendantic."

      You don't need our permission to hang round someone's neck and swing back and forth.

    • RoHa May 16, 2012 at 9:18 pm

      Zionists adopt one of the dehumanising concepts of anti-Semitism for themselves, and are willing to sacrifice their humanity to the interests of a gangster colony.

      Mooser, I love your puns, your jokes, your witticisms, your scintillating quips that would make poor, dear, Oscar grind his teeth in envy, but this serious statement outdoes them all as a summary of the conceptual and actual evil of Zionism.

    • RoHa May 16, 2012 at 9:04 pm

      "Can you unbecome being a German ?"

      Julia Gillard was able to unbecome being British. Had she not, she would not have become Prime Minister. (Many of us regret this outcome, but not for reasons connected with her former Britishness.)

      " Do you not find such a proposal to be extremely offensive?"

      What could be offensive about it?

  • Artifacts of the early Israel lobby: 1917 map for American consumption
  • Congressman Joe Pitts: 'It is incumbent on Ariel Sharon and Yasir Arafat to restart a peace process'
  • Foxman says Google and Facebook are on his team to combat 'internet hate'
    • RoHa May 13, 2012 at 9:01 pm

      "On what consistent logical and ethical grounds does it make sense..."

      Those are the opening words of a question directed to pro-Israel groups? And you expect an answer?

  • We're still losing
    • RoHa May 12, 2012 at 8:59 pm

      Last I heard, there were more women students than men in Iranian universities, even in the traditionally "men's subjects" like engineering.

  • Liberal Zionists are afraid their parents will reject them if they come out
    • RoHa May 15, 2012 at 6:54 am

      From that article:
      "Many of the early Western philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, Cato, Cicero, Seneca and Plutarch were critics of usury. "

      This criticism would have worked its way into the natural law ethical system the Christians adopted from the Stoics.

    • RoHa May 15, 2012 at 1:35 am

      Thanks. Looks like another inheritance from Stoic ethics.

    • RoHa May 15, 2012 at 12:49 am

      "what is so egregious about the Liberal Party,"

      They are conservatives. link to liberal.org.au

      " or, for that matter opera."

      It involves singing. Great composers write wonderful music, but you can hardly hear it because there is a stage full of fat people screaming and honking at each other.

    • RoHa May 14, 2012 at 9:42 pm with 4 replies

      I'm going to ask this again. Am I the only one who thinks it only an appalling lack of parental feeling would lead a parent to reject his child over this sort of thing?

      I cannot easily imagine what it would take for me to reject RoHa2. I would disapprove (loudly and often) if he became a Zionist, a Wahabi Muslim, a member of the Liberal Party, an opera singer, or all of those together, but I would not reject him.

      I don't even reject him for his bad English grammar and poor spelling!

    • RoHa May 14, 2012 at 9:04 pm

      "*In the 12th Century the Church banned the practice of usury by Christians, saying both scripture and natural law required this ban"

      It is banned under Islamic Law as well. Is this yet another case of the Church learning from the Muslims?

    • RoHa May 13, 2012 at 7:23 pm

      So these identity things are thought of as a sort of unchanging Aristotelian essence?

    • RoHa May 11, 2012 at 11:17 pm with 5 replies

      What sort of parents would reject their children for such a thing?

  • US military officers taught to target civilians and wage 'total war' on Islam

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