tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post2083242370117250408..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: Blindness in CairoYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-8718366602607089622009-12-31T02:59:17.189+02:002009-12-31T02:59:17.189+02:00I find these people a bit scary because they'r...I find these people a bit scary because they're dangerous when they get together in these kind of numbers. I haven't heard rhetoric like this since the big anti-apartheid protests in my country back in the eighties. They feed of each others stupidity & get more radical & irrational as the numbers grow.<br /><br />There is some humour to be found however. Been 15yrs since I was in Cairo but I can still recall the poverty & I've heard things are a whole lot worse there now. I keep picturing hordes of Cairene urchins turning up to watch the bizarre spectacle of well-padded westerners going without food for a few days. A hunger strike.... in Cairo? You just couldn't make that up. <br /><br />The english language usually has a delightful range of scathing epithets to describe these people; smug, patronising, condescending, arrogant, supercilious, egotistical.... This time it's failed me, the words all seem so inadequate. <br /><br />GavinGavinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-35301993053324036052009-12-30T04:57:38.486+02:002009-12-30T04:57:38.486+02:00AKUS, I read it the EXACT same way! :)
It's a...AKUS, I read it the EXACT same way! :)<br /><br />It's amazing, isn't it?Avigdorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05008730229882004376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-18562375725838121172009-12-30T02:18:15.180+02:002009-12-30T02:18:15.180+02:00"They know what the Goldstone report says–tho..."They know what the Goldstone report says–those missiles aimed at houses with sleeping children–and they are morally clear on the question."<br /><br />For one brief moment I thought he was referring to kassams aimed at Jewish houses with Jewish children sleeping in them.<br /><br />No such luck.AKUSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-62123604615430125572009-12-30T00:11:17.493+02:002009-12-30T00:11:17.493+02:00You know you can't shame the shameless. Pointi...You know you can't shame the shameless. Pointing it out to them is even less productive. This is why paranoia is so hard an illness to treat....they're all 'in on it', aren't they?Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-8068236740037127502009-12-29T23:38:10.307+02:002009-12-29T23:38:10.307+02:00The Guardian may have ignored the GFM's, but t...The Guardian may have ignored the GFM's, but the Huffington Post couldn't get enough stories about them:<br /><br />http://thebrothersofjudea.blogspot.com/2009/12/huffpowatch-argument-by-repetition-part.html<br /><br />They published a grand total of nine op-eds and news stories about the marchers.Zachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14026227792461843359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-43936134176114425472009-12-29T21:55:45.163+02:002009-12-29T21:55:45.163+02:00The Egyptians don't seem to have much toleranc...The Egyptians don't seem to have much tolerance for the moonbats. There's no sympathy for the Gazans in Egypt. Its revealing the bulk of the anti-Israel demonstrators are Westerners rather than Arabs.<br /><br />And that is quite telling.NormanFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03365459073293643108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-87100994615682778592009-12-29T21:23:36.265+02:002009-12-29T21:23:36.265+02:00According to a sound video in the French Journal &...According to a sound video in the French Journal "Le Monde", 250 Europeans took the road on a bus to Gaza, but they were stopped 80 km from Cairo and escorted back to their hotels by the Egyptian security forces.<br /><br />The level of arrogance - and perhaps downright racism is evident in the closing sentence of the video, when the speaker patronizes the Egyptian authorities "not to fall into the trap set for them [by the Israelis], namely the brutal shift of responsibility for the current situation from Tel-Aviv to Cairo."<br /><br />This level of stupidity begs the question: why even take notice? <br />the only ones they can hurt are the Gazans.<br /><br />http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/portfolio/2009/12/29/la-marche-vers-gaza-stoppee-au-caire_1285654_3218.htmlSylvianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-52174601712001314162009-12-29T18:45:24.406+02:002009-12-29T18:45:24.406+02:00If there's any justice in this world, these pe...If there's any justice in this world, these people, especially the execrable Phil Weiss, will get lost in the Sinai, never to be heard from again.Geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05653332291869427555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-7832184379152658442009-12-29T16:24:16.479+02:002009-12-29T16:24:16.479+02:00...just an exercise in narcissism?
Actually, it&#...<i>...just an exercise in narcissism?</i><br /><br />Actually, it's a very public demonstration of insanity and Israel bashing.<br /><br />De rigeur at that. No wonder they're so terribly confused.<br /><br />(Alas if it were only narcissism.... )Barry Meislinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04795125774426217113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-24401810796400061032009-12-29T15:54:24.231+02:002009-12-29T15:54:24.231+02:00I noticed something funny when I returned to the U...I noticed something funny when I returned to the US from my visit home: I really didn't care about the news while in Israel. What mattered to me was that I was in Israel, nothing else. <br /><br />Now back in the US unfortunately, I find myself ensconced in the news again. I read your blog every other day while in IL to keep up with opinions but not much more than a glance at Haaretz and Ynet. My main news concern was the Texans and Rockets sports teams.<br /><br />I believe the Mondoweiss and Gaurdian people know all too well that not many people care about what their opinion is. I surely don't.<br /><br />Israel is here to stay. More people are coming home from the Galut. More babies are born everyday, secular and religious. If we could just find a way for a larger part of the Haredi sector to contribute more, you have the makings of an economic juggernaut.<br /><br />Just my opinion on the Mondos and Gaurdians - I flatulate in their general direction.<br /><br />AsafAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-9454261390739317462009-12-29T15:35:32.229+02:002009-12-29T15:35:32.229+02:00I wonder what they imbibe these days to come up wi...I wonder what they imbibe these days to come up with such verbal garbage ...<br />every one of them trying to imitate the Zolas of this world and thereby exposing themselves us veritable nut-cases - but dangerous, very dangerous, I've been at enough events to know that such language may induce a lot of swooning<br />rgds,<br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com