Comments on: The Nobel committee members are schmucks

By: Kav

Kav — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 16:59:33 +0000

Gary, I live in Europe, I interact with people everyday. Not all of them are wankers. A lot of them don’t even consider the middle east at all.

yes there are plenty of fools and idiots over here, a veritable multitude, but when you start lumping us all intogether instead then you start to alienate people. Why do it if you don’t have to? I’m not saying bend over and take what the bastards dole out, but don’t turn around and kick the bastards and all those standing near them. It makes no sense. Discrimate over who needs the kicking and then kick them good and proper.

By: Gary Rosen

Gary Rosen — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 15:59:40 +0000

Kav,

My grandfather emigrated to the US from what is now Belarus at the age of 14 in 1900. If he hadn’t done that, my parents would have been killed by the Nazis and I never would have been born.
My story is only one of millions.

Europe has been a bloody killing field for Jews for centuries. And now, it is not just “a few”, but there is overwhelming anti-Israel sentiment in Europe allegedly based on sympathy for the Palestinians. But given the ugly history of this continent, it is far more likely it is based on plain old antisemitism. There have been too many innocent Jews murdered for too long a time for me to want to give Europe any benefit of the doubt.

As for “win[ning] new friends”, we’ve heard it all before. Just be nice and polite. All it got us was the gas chambers. I’ll take Ariel Sharon any day.

By: Kav

Kav — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 14:49:39 +0000

Thanks Meryl, much appreciated.

Gary, why propagate a mass stereotype or insult of a large group of people based upon a few that you think are idiots?

That is not the way to win any battle,nor any friends.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 12:42:52 +0000

Now come on, Meryl. The prize was awarded because they’re “addressing” the problem of nuclear proliferation. They aren’t actually doing anything about it, but by golly, they are addressing it. What do you want–actual action on Iran?

Let’s be grateful for one small favor, and small is what it is: the IAEA hasn’t followed up it’s “What Iranian nuclear program?” with a declaration that the real threat to peace is the nuclear program of a certain small country at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea.

By: Gary Rosen

Gary Rosen — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 04:55:26 +0000

Don’t give in, Meryl – at least make it “most Europeans”. As for Carter, I’m sure they vaulted him to the top of the list when they found out what a fanatic antisemite he is.

By: chsw

chsw — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 02:00:50 +0000

Qadaffi should then receive the prize. He ran rings around ElBaradei for years! IAEA never knew that Libya had actual weaponry! Then Qadaffi threw away the nukes and therefore lost all chance of a Nobel.

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:56:50 +0000

You have a point there, Kav.

I’ll amend that to “some Europeans” when I get home.

By: Laurence Simon

Laurence Simon — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 16:37:13 +0000

President Gusamo of East Timor probably should start suicide bombing Indonesians and stealing billions of dollars if he ever wants a prize.

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By: Somewhere on A1A...

Somewhere on A1A... — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:18:31 +0000

The Nobel Peace Prize

Yasser Arafat, Jimmy Carter, and now Mohamed ElBaradei Arafat? For refusing peace with Israel and fighting and killing Jews until his death. Carter? For enabling North Korea to develop nuclear weapons. Elbaredei? For supporting Saddam and the Ayatollah…