Comments on: Feeling the Hate in Tel Aviv: A Response

By: m

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:10:52 +0000

Gert – you are so boring. Yawn.

By: Gert

Gert — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:33:31 +0000

Alex: Well, have a nice trip but you're missing all the action in Washington!

By: Alex Stein

Alex Stein — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:54:05 +0000

Good timing Gert – I’m off to New York tomorrow so the site will be on pause…

By: Mad Zionist

Mad Zionist — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:47:38 +0000

It appears that “MZ Security” has safely removed the Gert Anti-Zionist Virus from the thread. The firewall will continue scanning, as additional threats from various Anti-Zionist Virus mutations are possible.

By: Gert

Gert — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:48:58 +0000

As Dame Edna Everage would say, ‘well, possums…’ (snaps out of character).

As this very long thread seems to have slowly ground to a halt, this is as good a time as any to draw a line under this discussion, at least for now. It’s been lovely and predictably without miraculous ‘conversions’ (which will now have to await a future occasion ), so until we meet again:

So long!

By: Hank

Hank — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:24:28 +0000

Dana and Gabriel, yours was the most reasoned argument on both sides, and I agree with both. Yes, Israeli racism is blatant and horrifying, but there is an undue spotlight put on it.

However, I do wish Israel would observe a fakey, American-style pretend-not-to-be-racist attitude; at the very least, I then wouldn’t have to hear it all the time.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:04:16 +0000

“Automatically granting the right to citizenship for Palestinians in other Arab countries would only set a dangerous precedent.

Country A invades Country B and ethnically cleanses it, by unceremoniously dumping Citizens B across the borders into Countries C, D, E etc. It does that, safe in the knowledge that the brethren from C,D, E will absorb them, no harm done.”

Precedent? That’s what has always happened (well, sometimes they get kicked out into another country as well.) The precedent is exactly the opposite. Countries fight, populations get expelled, and they settle elsewhere. I am not saying this is wonderful or should be embraced, just that it’s more of pretending Israel is uniquely evil when it is rather commonplace.

By: Mad Zionist

Mad Zionist — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:25:48 +0000

LB – interesting, isn’t it, that in Palestine-Jordan the citizenship of over 70% of its population is being cancelled yet the Anti-Zionist Viruses completely disregard it… the hypocrisy is breathtaking.

By: LB

LB — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:17:38 +0000

If you resettle, build a home, house, etc etc - but then, for whatever reason, lose your job/money/etc - UNRWA allows you to re-register as a refugee. I don't know where this information is available, but it was told to a group of IDF officers and soldiers by the head of UNRWA WB at the time, whose name escapes me at the moment. And regarding citizenship in neighboring countries there's this.

By: Alex Stein

Alex Stein — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:47:43 +0000

It’s not dishonest: I don’t think they should bugger off to Jordan nor shld it effect the urgent need for a Palestinian state (although I’m currently into the ‘two-state condominum’ idea).