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sasha
I am a mathematician working at University of Chicago. Was born, and spent most of my life, in Moscow.
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Thank you, David Samel. I completely agree.
"occasionally prosecuted" - yes. But, in fact, the prosecution essentially always ends in acquittal.
"..the nearly universal Jewish empathy for the state born in 1948 (including Jerome Slater, but not ) cannot be erased"
With all my deep respect towards Norman Finkelstein’s mother, let me remind that the list of those having more than ambivalent feelings towards the nascent Jewish state, included Martin Buber and Albert Einstein as well.
On universalism vs. exclusiveness:
When a Canaanite woman asked Jesus to help her daughter,
what she heard first was "It is not fair to take children's food
and throw it to the dogs". An (admittedly, non-canonical)
interpretation would be that after saying these words, Jesus
understood what shame is.
Why on earth would one want joint any club...
It's a strange story. It is very probable that Israel authorities have their own people at high level of Palestinian resistance, and would use them to call in a terrorist attack whenever it is politically convenient. Like it was in Russia during its "war on terror" at the end of XIX-beginning of XX cc.: there the top leaders of the military wing of SR party (the terrorist organization Russian government fought against) were for the most time agents provocateurs of the government (see e.g. link to en.wikipedia.org
and link to en.wikipedia.org
).
Don't be so quick. The end comes when public understands the said ideology not only being sad but also idiotic.
And this is clown's job to do.
>I think I missed a few of these hearings...just another biased
>event in which Israel is going to be judged using standards
>even the US does not live up to.
You seem to suggest that a proper defense for a murderer on
trial is to claim that someone who murdered even more
people, is still at large.
>Is the Mughrabi Quarter a religious site?
From link to en.wikipedia.org
:
Workers under the guard of soldiers then proceeded to demolish the quarter, consisting of 135 houses, the al-Buraq mosque, the Bou Medyan zaouia and other sites, with the exception of a mosque and a zaouia which were demolished two years later.
As far as I remember, the quarter and the mosque were from Saladin's time.
>What was grotesque was what the Arabs did to Jewish religious sites in >Jerusalem. Now they want another shot at them?
It is instructive to see what the Israeli authorities did to the Mughrabi Quarter
on the 3rd day after they captured the Old City in 1967:
link to en.wikipedia.org
"My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century" by Adina Hoffman (2009)
The life story of Israeli Arab poet Taha Muhamad Ali. A beautiful and noble book; to my
opinion, the best one on the subject of the post.