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If the anti-semitic villain is named "Adolf," then yeah, we're probably not dealing with a really subtle text here.
I wonder how much Steve Frank writes about Kashmir and Armenia.
Uh, Daniel, you do realize that my post was a joke? Goebbels was short and Hitler was not a blond, either.
The Dane is an obvious Nazi lookalike--with the blond hair and bright blue eyes of Adolf Hitler, the imposing height of Joseph Goebbels, and the trim, muscular form of Herman Goering.
England and the UK? I had no idea the breakup of Britain had gone that far.
What people like Stein never seem to realize is that if they are right about this threat to the Jews, it means the Zionist project of "save the Jews by concentrating them in one small geographical location" has been a crashing failure.
"Because I don't think that it makes any sense to put negative pressure on people whose behavior you hope to change."
Clearly not a philosophy that Goldberg thinks applicable to the Iranians.
The way Zionists can flip from "easy living diaspora Jews have no idea what its like living in Israel under constant threat" to "diaspora Jews are at constant risk from crazed anti-semites; Israel is the only safe haven' is impressive, in a perverse way.
But he isn't on trial--he's being detained without trial.
Shorter Woolsey and Schanzer: This is a terribly, terribly complex issue in which everything is the fault of evil Palestinians.
"Personal status INCIDENTALLY arises," in other words a case about non-personal status issues to which personal status is relevant.
Neither one of us is changing the other person's mind, so I'm willing to give you the last word if you want it.
"inclusive Jurisdiction In Matters Of Personal Status Shall Be Exercised In Accordance With The Provisions Of This Part By The Courts Of The Religious Communities Established And Exercising Jurisdiction At The Date Of This Order. "
Inclusive Jurisdiction shall be Exercised, not "advice shall be given on request"
Right, separate systems of personal status law based on religious communities, not "one law for all people."
Halakha for the Jews, Sharia for the Muslims, sounds like separate laws to me.
The "one law" clause would also require the abolition of religiously-based personal status law, quite a radical move in the context of Israel.
I knew that. It was a very strange moment when I first encountered it.
I'm not so enthusiastic. Judging from the snippet you posted, Pollack seems to be taking the traditional "It's OK to criticize Israel from the point of view of saving it from itself, but not OK to criticize it from the point of view of defending Palestinian rights" line. Alterman does this too, with his slam at Abunimah and Palestine solidarity. So different voices are welcomed to the conversation, as long as they all say the same thing.
An interesting piece, but one notices that Gorenberg didn't bother to get the opinion of a single Arab.
If Israel wants an army, let them pay for it out of their own damned taxes. The idea of going to a foreign country, hat in hand, to pay for your army is just fucking pathetic, although not as pathetic as Americans like Rendell who go along with it.
Of course they're not being boycotted for their race! They're being boycotted for their religion and language, which is much better.
And yet, somehow, Israel was not founded by "a very long term highly-engaged thorough campaign of nonviolent protest" directed at the British. Must be the violent culture over there.
But who, Saul, is the Melville of the Jews?
Erdogan has his flaws, but calling him a "mad man," as opposed to an unpleasant politician, is simply silly--and it's also the kind of rhetoric that precedes the freedom bombs.
Always hilarious when American pro-zionist politicians start ragging on some other regime's "destabilizing policies." Hey, destabilizing the Middle East is our job!
I didn't realize the Church of the Nativity was that essential to the history of the Jewish people.
That's the best you can do?
Israel is not Palestine's neighbor, Israel is Palestine's occupier. This is a basic point, and if you don't get it you really shouldn't be opining on the subject.
"If you’re like many pro-Israel Americans, these events have you more scared for Israel’s existence then you’ve likely felt in many years."
Interesting that the "terrifying Iranian nukes" seem to have dropped down the memory hole.
Damn outside agitators. . .
Actually, longliveisrael, you're the one who doesn't understand cause and effect. You can't refute a claim that a causes b by coming up with examples of b not caused by a. All that shows is that other things can also cause b.
For example, blog posts on Israel/Palestine issues cause idiotic responses, but so do any number of other topics. Please read a textbook of elementary logic before posting.
Really? Has anyone in mainstream American media been fired for treating the killings of Rachel Corrie and Furkan Dogan as justified?
This idea that Hitler was some big fan of Jewish intermarriage is beyond bizarre--if the highest purpose of Jews today was posthumously annoying Hitler, they should all marry Germans.
It means, among other things, that Israel has some of the most powerful sharia courts in a non-Islamic country--which makes the endless denunciations of the evils of sharia from Israel's American supporters particularly amusing.
"Jewish life" existed for literally thousands of years without a state of Israel. Do these guys even listen to themselves?
"England" and "UK" are not synonymous. The fact that the study was done by an institution based in Glasgow should be a tipoff. Telling a Glaswegian he or she lives in England will get you about the same reaction as telling a West Bank Palestinian he or she lives in Israel.
One thing I've noticed about Zionist "Jordanian solution" aficionados is that they never explain why the Jordanians would be stupid enough to sign on for this.
Is there any actual evidence the family was killed by a Palestinian? Because what I'm seeing is a lot of assuming. Remember Tirza Porat?
When asked for a reaction, Israeli Prime Minister Uri Avnery had no comment. In a related story, owner of the New Republic Norman Finkelstein announced a shakeup at the organization. (Former owner Marty Peretz sold the magazine after his conversion to Islam.) The new Middle Eastern correspondent will be Asad Abu Khalil.
Hartman's position can be boiled down to: "As Jews, our natural affinity is with the oppressed. As Israelis, our natural affinity is with the oppressor."
Avnery has his flaws, but he deserves better than to be yoked to Thomas Friedman.
I'd bet that this whole "civilized man--savage" thing ain't gonna go over too well with the Native American community.
I wouldn't get my hopes up here. The next Congress is going to be even more pro-Aipac than this one.
What makes this post extra-hilarious is Peretz's complete inability to consider that Kissinger might be lying to him.
The linked column isn't by Beinart.
No system of justice in the world is based on the proposition that party x is not obligated to return stolen property to party y until completely unrelated party z returns property to x. (In fact, in this case its even worse, as the Jews to whom Poland should return property are not even necessarily Israeli Jews.) It's just a silly idea.
Another problem with the Native American analogy is that it could be applied to Zionists as well as anti-Zionists. How is saying the Jews have a right to return to their "ancestral homeland" different from saying that Native Americans do?
So basically, whether the Palestinians have a right to return is dependent on what the Poles do? Seriously?
Scott Lively is a liar and bigot, not a reliable historical source. His work is considered a joke by serious historians of the Nazi movement.
That argument has been refuted about a million times. I'm not going to try to explain it. I'll just give you a word of warning in the words of C. S. Lewis: The trouble with trying to be stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
Turkey's repudiation of its pro-Western orientation? What, they quit NATO? First I've heard of it.
Yes, Ken, given the blessings which the occupation daily showers on the Palestinians, the only reason Palestinians might be anti-Israel is that dastardly "incitement."
Oh, please. Debkafiles? Leave taking those idiots seriously to the Zionists.
Why don't you read some of the numerous interviews with Meshaal and Haniyah that are available on the internet rather than bugging Alex and Phil?
This "start-up nation" thing that hasbaraniks are getting into now is pretty hilarious. Do you have any idea what the failure rate of start-ups is?
Then you do care!
I have a feeling I'll be waiting for a long time.
Deep progression? What does that even mean?
Have you run this idea by the Chinese? Because they might actually want something in return for their aid.
The idea that Israel is a secularist society is pretty hilarious, given that they don't even have civil marriage.
Yeah, WJ, killing captives is terrible. Anybody know how many Palestinians have died in Israeli custody?
How long did the Jewish people survive without a state? Couple thousand years, give or take? And now the survival of the Jewish people is dependent on a state founded in 1948? Why would anyone take this bullshit seriously?
Looks like yet another "survey" of "Israelis" that didn't bother to interview any Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Should we refer to the 36 no voters as the Lamed Vovniks?
Feeling good about having voted for Kucinich in the last two presidential primaries right now.
Is that mention of a hotel meant to be a reference to a specific, well-known act of Middle Eastern terrorism?
Who'd have thought Women and Madness would turn out to be an autobiography?
Twenty million Soviet citizens died in the war, and it wasn't because the USSR lacked the ability to defend itself. Oh, and by the way, speaking of people who lack the ability to defend themselves, how are the Palestinians doing?
You realize that this argument destroys the entire basis of Zionism by assuming that the only reason a Jew would move to Israel is that he or she was kicked out of another country?
Actually, the whole thing is pretty hilarious.
If the people running things were Wilsonian internationalists, they wouldn't flaunt their contempt for the UN. They're American imperialists.
Quoting Dershowitz as an authority will get you laughed at here.
So will the Palestinians, apparently.
I'm not! (Apparently, the new commenting system doesn't like pithy comments, thus, this parenthetical statement.)
Have you talked to any Jewish women about your "7 children per womb" plan?
Yeah, a secret peace offer made by a lame-duck PM with virtually no support in the Knesset and about to be indicted--can't imagine why the Palestinians wouldn't have taken that one seriously.
You're missing my point, which is that Podhoretz's views have flattered the great and powerful, making him a wealthy, influential and successful man, while Finkelstein's have got him fired from what was not so great a job in the first place. That's why you can't view them as equivalents.
Norman Finkelstein would never title his autobiography "Making It"
The difference between Norman Finkelstein and Norman Podhoretz is that Finkelstein takes the side of the weak, and suffers for it, and Podhoretz takes the side of the strong, and glories in it.
Joe Sacco's Palestine. Visually rich description of Gaza Palestinian life.
Rashid Khalidi's The Iron Cage. Warts and all history of the Palestinian nationalist movement.
Edward Said's The Question of Palestine. Read Said! Annoy a Zionist!
Another interesting guy to look at in the context of the survival of anti-Zionist Jewish socialism is Bruno Kreisky.