tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post5076003376932699477..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: If it's in the Newspaper it Must Be TrueYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-75852337434945886492010-07-26T10:08:39.137+03:002010-07-26T10:08:39.137+03:004infidels at 3:35
Bingo! as I would say in German
...4infidels at 3:35<br />Bingo! as I would say in German<br /><br />here is something that may interest you <br />- of course I think that because I find support of my variation in there as "opposed" to yours and I find especially noteworthy what Lee Smith says about states. <br /><br />Silke<br /><br />http://www.city-journal.org/2010/transcript0715.html<br />PAUL BERMAN, JUDITH MILLER, FRED SIEGEL, LEE SMITH, IBN WARRAQ<br />Modernity and the Muslims<br />A transcript of a discussion at St. Francis College<br />I think that this is by the same Judith Miller which makes her a bit ...<br />http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-03/israels-free-press-crackdown/?om_rid=C0bFyj&om_mid=_BLuJmDB8G113Qx&Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-11823959600814008562010-07-26T03:35:12.970+03:002010-07-26T03:35:12.970+03:00Lee,
How many of the Palestinians supporters from...Lee,<br /><br />How many of the Palestinians supporters from Europe and America, who you say are more militant than the Palestinians themselves, have actually strapped bombs on themselves and taken their own life for the cause?<br /><br />Zero4infidelsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-22494640555049089412010-07-26T03:30:47.874+03:002010-07-26T03:30:47.874+03:00Lee,
The Free Tibet movement consists more of peo...Lee,<br /><br /><i>The Free Tibet movement consists more of people who actually understand the issues and are genuinely committed to the cause. The Free Palestine people are just into the radical chic. They are fools.</i><br /><br />Wrong again. The "Free Tibet" movement, at least here in the US, is worthless. It has accomplished nothing for the people of Tibet, and little in the way of informing Americans on the issues beyond that Tibet isn't free.<br /><br />The Free Tibet "activism" consists of putting bumper stickers on cars to let everyone in the neighborhood know that the car's owner is a more virtuous person than you. No one in the Free Tibet movement dares to go to Tibet, to participate in protests there, to stand in the way of Chinese soldiers, etc. They know that they would be killed as the Chinese are ruthless and don't tolerate dissent.<br /><br />The Palestinian movement in the US, along with the media, has had the effect of hurting Israel's image and causing America to sometimes treat a democratic ally, who provides America with valuable military intelligence, as a albatross whose every action must be analyzed and criticized and whose "occupation" and self-defensive measures are beyond the pale. Meanwhile, we know China is a totalitarian government with no regard for human rights...and most Americans are fine with having a live and let live approach, without needing to reassess that relationship which threats America's national security and morality.<br /><br />So the Palestinian movement has has a the great successes of causing almost all Western governments to work against Israel.<br /><br /><i>We know that the non-Palestinian members tends towards even more extreme Jew-hatred and militancy than many of the Palestinians.</i><br /><br />I don't believe that the Palestinian supporters are more extreme in their Jew-hatred than the Palestinians themselves. That is complete nonsense! Once again you are soft-pedaling the real, intense, conspiratorial, Allah-endorsed, Mohammed-celebrated, Nazi-style, murderous Jew-hatred in the West Bank and Gaza.<br /><br />Yes, there are many Westerners motivated by anti-Jewish attitudes in their support for the Palestinian movement. But there are also many in the Palestinian movement who are motivated by "radical chic," by anti-Western, anti-American, anti-Capitalist, pro-Third World and by the opportunity to be "citizens of the world" by attaching choosing the same political allies and enemies as the UN and OIC. Others believe they are standing up for the oppressed, sincerely doing what is in the best interest of peace. And then there are those who need a cause and going to Israel and confronting an IDF soldier (and getting a souvenir photo) looks dangerous but really isn't, which is why the same folks never would confront a Chinese or Sudanese soldier in the same way. Among this group of non-Arab and non-Muslim supporters of the Palestinian movement are sadly many Jews, even Israelis, and they're not all anti-Semites of the Norman Finklestein, Noam Chomsky variety.<br /><br />Please don't mistake this as a defense of the Westerners in the Palestinian movement. They are motivated either by misinformation or by toxic ideological or personal motivations. These do-gooders should be ashamed of themselves, making the Jewish state, the modern home history's most persecuted people, a pariah in a world full human rights violators.<br /><br />But there is one thing that distinguishes this morally stunted group of Palestinian supporters (whose support for "Palestine" is mostly motivated by being against Israel) in the West from the Palestinians themselves: a yarmulke-wearing Jew--even a Zionist-- can wander into their midst and likely emerged with no more than some hurt feelings; should that same Jew make the mistake of walking into the wrong neighborhood in "Palestine" there is a good chance he won't return in one piece.4infidelsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-15777731161897009102010-07-25T16:25:45.558+03:002010-07-25T16:25:45.558+03:00If they had any stones either they'd become sh...If they had any stones either they'd become shahids or they'd resurrect the Red Army Faction. That's why we needn't worry much about what these slackers do.Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-91160067838417937632010-07-25T15:11:17.193+03:002010-07-25T15:11:17.193+03:00talking about newspapers:
Gabriel Schoenfeld on I...talking about newspapers:<br /><br />Gabriel Schoenfeld on Iran at the WSJ some days ago has had really interesting stuff to say about<br /><i>"Avoiding Another Intelligence Failure on Iran"</i><br /><br />I haven't come across it anywhere else. Could it be that the man knows the stuff he is writing about and that he is thinking while doing it and that that is a hindrance to widespread interest? Anyway his angle is more than interesting and seems very likely to me.<br /><br />http://gabrielschoenfeld.com/2010/07/avoiding-another-intelligence-failure-on-iran/<br /><br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-63129003998413235832010-07-25T14:48:11.124+03:002010-07-25T14:48:11.124+03:00There is an interesting point in the story of the ...There is an interesting point in the story of the Indian student:<br /><br /><i>...and I was terrified of the cars that drove too fast and never stopped for me at the pedestrian crossing.</i><br /><br />Anyone who spent five minutes in India will understand the absurdity of her fear of being hit at a pedestrian crossing and of the speeding cars.peterthehungariannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-65435206150143809402010-07-25T14:36:37.443+03:002010-07-25T14:36:37.443+03:00Ya'acov is right about one thing: Israel shoul...Ya'acov is right about one thing: Israel should keep the focus relentlessly on Palestinian extremism. The subject mustn't be allowed to shift back to Israel. Its time to isolate the other side and make it pay the price for its rejection of co-existence with Israel. The side with willpower and a complete belief in the justice of its cause will prevail in the trials of life.NormanFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03365459073293643108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-41065402454997807642010-07-25T14:26:07.378+03:002010-07-25T14:26:07.378+03:00What's radical chic without the social legitim...What's radical chic without the social legitimization of violence?<br />t34zakatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-70521159431821175952010-07-25T14:02:25.634+03:002010-07-25T14:02:25.634+03:00I think that its instructive to compare the non-Pa...I think that its instructive to compare the non-Palestinian members of the Palestinian movement to the non-Tibetan members of the Tibetan movement. We know that the non-Palestinian members tends towards even more extreme Jew-hatred and militancy than many of the Palestinians. Thats because the Palestinian leadership has long cultivated a desire to eliminate Israel and Jews from the Middle East. Its rubbed off on their non-Palestinian members.<br /><br /> The non-Tibetans in the Free Tibet movement are in no way as anti-Chinese or even as anti-PRC because the leader of the Free Tibet movement, the Dalai Lama himself, has strove not to cultivate hatred towards the Chinese government or people but merely to get them to leave Tibet.<br /><br /> The results are obvious on their face. The Free Tibet movement consists more of people who actually understand the issues and are genuinely committed to the cause. The Free Palestine people are just into the radical chic. They are fools.Lee Ratnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08139895689217213860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-55864312556438297682010-07-25T13:41:37.496+03:002010-07-25T13:41:37.496+03:00Re: Dreyfus
Now how is one supposed to trust a boo...Re: Dreyfus<br />Now how is one supposed to trust a book review that ends like this:<br />http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/books/review/Damrosch-t.html?_r=1&ref=books<br />?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com