Comments on: Aint Nick’s boomerang http://www.yourish.com/2009/01/08/5976 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:34:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: rdamurphy http://www.yourish.com/2009/01/08/5976/comment-page-1#comment-35659 rdamurphy Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:09:37 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5976#comment-35659 The NYTs is irrelevent. The sooner everyone starts treating it - and it's columnists that way, the better. The NYTs is irrelevent. The sooner everyone starts treating it – and it’s columnists that way, the better.

]]> By: Michael Lonie http://www.yourish.com/2009/01/08/5976/comment-page-1#comment-35655 Michael Lonie Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:46:31 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5976#comment-35655 By Kristof's (il)logic once America had sunk an equal number of Japanese ships to those the Japanese sank at Pearl Harbor we should have stopped WWII. I do wish that pundits who are pig-ignorant of warfare and history would STFU. But let us pursue for a moment his tit-for-tat proposal about proportionality. He says 20 Israelis have been killed by rockets from Gaza since 2001. The Arabs valued two dead Israelis at 400 live terrorists when they traded back the bodies of the two soldiers captured on the Lebanese Border. Thus one dead Jew is worth, by Arab calculation, 200 Arabs. So I reckon by Kristof's logic Israel can continue fighting until Zahal has killed 4000 Arabs in the Gaza Strip. That would be proportionate, using the Arabs' own valuation of proportion. Thus we can see that the "proportionality" criticism is even stupider than it appears at first sight. By Kristof’s (il)logic once America had sunk an equal number of Japanese ships to those the Japanese sank at Pearl Harbor we should have stopped WWII. I do wish that pundits who are pig-ignorant of warfare and history would STFU.

But let us pursue for a moment his tit-for-tat proposal about proportionality. He says 20 Israelis have been killed by rockets from Gaza since 2001. The Arabs valued two dead Israelis at 400 live terrorists when they traded back the bodies of the two soldiers captured on the Lebanese Border. Thus one dead Jew is worth, by Arab calculation, 200 Arabs. So I reckon by Kristof’s logic Israel can continue fighting until Zahal has killed 4000 Arabs in the Gaza Strip. That would be proportionate, using the Arabs’ own valuation of proportion. Thus we can see that the “proportionality” criticism is even stupider than it appears at first sight.

]]> By: Meryl Yourish http://www.yourish.com/2009/01/08/5976/comment-page-1#comment-35647 Meryl Yourish Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:54:13 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5976#comment-35647 Israel did try to extend the truce with Hamas. Hamas bombarded Israel with rockets. Kristof is a moron. Israel did try to extend the truce with Hamas.

Hamas bombarded Israel with rockets.

Kristof is a moron.

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