Comments on: Israeli Double Standard Time, updated http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/17/1696 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:21:52 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Meryl Yourish http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/17/1696/comment-page-1#comment-14285 Meryl Yourish Tue, 18 Jul 2006 03:49:40 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/17/1696#comment-14285 I think you mean the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which is known in Egypt and Muslim lands as the Ramadan War. But true, the appropriate comparison is with, gee, the rest of the world minus the U.S., as the U.S. gets bashed quite a lot on her own. I think you mean the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which is known in Egypt and Muslim lands as the Ramadan War.

But true, the appropriate comparison is with, gee, the rest of the world minus the U.S., as the U.S. gets bashed quite a lot on her own.

]]> By: William Sjostrom http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/17/1696/comment-page-1#comment-14256 William Sjostrom Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:17:03 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/17/1696#comment-14256 I think you are partly mistaken with respect to the double standard. Although there is a double standard, the appropriate comparison is not with the U.S. Do you remember all the demands that the US stop military action during Ramadan? That was because Ramadan was very sacred to Muslims, a time of peace, as demonstrated by the 1967 Arab-Israeli war taking place during Ramadan. The double standard is with respect to everyone else. For example, to take a <a href="http://foreignaffairs.gov.ie/Press_Releases/20060713/2115.htm" rel="nofollow">not-so-bad (as it could have been) example</a>, the Irish government is putting the onus on the Israeli government to stop the fighting, but when the IRA started waging war on Ireland in the 1950s, the Irish government interred everyone who even looked IRA. The only time Israel gets hit with a double standard and the US does not is when the costs of applying the double standard to the US get too high. The efforts by British academics to boycott Israel never got extended to the US, even though the boycott advocates hate the US as much, because no serious academic wants to cut off dealings with the US, <strong>where the money is</strong>. I think you are partly mistaken with respect to the double standard. Although there is a double standard, the appropriate comparison is not with the U.S. Do you remember all the demands that the US stop military action during Ramadan? That was because Ramadan was very sacred to Muslims, a time of peace, as demonstrated by the 1967 Arab-Israeli war taking place during Ramadan. The double standard is with respect to everyone else. For example, to take a not-so-bad (as it could have been) example, the Irish government is putting the onus on the Israeli government to stop the fighting, but when the IRA started waging war on Ireland in the 1950s, the Irish government interred everyone who even looked IRA. The only time Israel gets hit with a double standard and the US does not is when the costs of applying the double standard to the US get too high. The efforts by British academics to boycott Israel never got extended to the US, even though the boycott advocates hate the US as much, because no serious academic wants to cut off dealings with the US, where the money is.

]]> By: A Blog For All http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/17/1696/comment-page-1#comment-14245 A Blog For All Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:04:36 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/17/1696#comment-14245 <strong>Hounding the Hell Out of Hizbullah and Hamas...</strong> Iran may have miscalculated in the conflict because Hizbullah and Hamas are being decimated by Israel without any tangible improvement in Iran's strategic interests. In fact, losing their prime proxies in the region is a huge loss for them, which mea.... Hounding the Hell Out of Hizbullah and Hamas…

Iran may have miscalculated in the conflict because Hizbullah and Hamas are being decimated by Israel without any tangible improvement in Iran’s strategic interests. In fact, losing their prime proxies in the region is a huge loss for them, which mea….

]]> By: Robert http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/17/1696/comment-page-1#comment-14226 Robert Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:39:17 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/17/1696#comment-14226 Israel should start using MOAB bombs in Lebanon..and start annexing all Lebanese territory. Israel should start using MOAB bombs in Lebanon..and start annexing all Lebanese territory.

]]> By: Laurence Simon http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/17/1696/comment-page-1#comment-14223 Laurence Simon Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:04:35 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/07/17/1696#comment-14223 Hezbollah just hit a hospital in safed. Israel should announce that it will attack a Lebanese hospital in order to maintain the principle of proportional response. Hezbollah just hit a hospital in safed.

Israel should announce that it will attack a Lebanese hospital in order to maintain the principle of proportional response.

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