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Comment on Negotiating by tantrum by Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:07:48 +0000

Alex,
That is the standard Arab practice of logical thinking. Most Arabs also believe simultaneously that the 9/11 Attacks were done by the Mossad and that they were a great victory for Islam over the Great Satan. Arabs will master logical thinking when Greeks reckon time by the Calends.

Comment on SNB by Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:03:29 +0000

The CIA hasn’t been competent at counterespionage since its management fired Angleton in 1975. It would not surprise me in the least to find that Langley was riddled with agents of our fiends, the Saudis, whose product went straight to our enemies from the higher ups in Saudi intel.

Comment on The problem with pundits by Karmafish

Karmafish — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:00:55 +0000

One would think that if the Palestinians were so desperate for peace and autonomy than they would negotiate. One would think that they might have accepted one of the many previous offers for state-hood.

Yet, somehow we are supposed to believe that construction in settlement blocs near the green line, or in Jewish neighbors in E Jerusalem, areas that will become part of Israel under a negotiated settlement, represents an impediment to negotiations.

Why is it that on so many domestic issues liberals are fairly on the money, yet when it comes to I-P they have their heads entirely up their asses?

And to think that I voted for Obama.

Not next time.

Comment on The problem with pundits by Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:16:50 +0000

Actually, Grossman might be correct if he ended his sentence “because we do not want to use our weapons against anyone.” It is similar to the explanation of Yaakov’s reaction before meeting Esav in Parshat Vayishlach, “He was afraid and distressed”. He was afraid that Esav would attempt to kill him and he was distressed that he might be forced to kill Esav. That is the fact that the “Cohens” of the world refuse to see. They have internalized the statements of their enemies so that they are upset that they are not allowed to melt into the background and disappear. They resent the fact that there are those who refuse to surrender. It is the guilt that they refuse to admit.

Comment on The problem with pundits by Tatterdemalian

Tatterdemalian — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:18:59 +0000

“I agree with the Israeli author David Grossman when he writes: ‘We have dozens of atomic bombs, tanks and planes. We confront people possessing none of these arms. And yet, in our minds, we remain victims…’”

This is the kind of thing people can only believe when they have blinkered themselves so thouroughly to see everything in terms of black vs. white, “oppressor” vs. “victim,” that they literally cannot comprehend that anybody else can see themselves or the world around them in any other way.

Israelis see themselves as victims? Why, because they refuse to see themselves as oppressors? Maybe Israelis see themselves as something that cannot exist in such a simple two-color world view: resolute defenders of their own right to exist.

Comment on The problem with pundits by Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:24:10 +0000

Not that this surprises you or me, Meryl. A lot of people out there, including ones named “Cohen,” seem to be able to deal equitably with the sacrifice of Jewish lives towards some end. It’s not just the willful refusal of reality, but also the refusal to engage with evidence. Notice neither he nor many other pundits deal with what happened when Israel did withdraw from an area and gave the Palestinians a chance to show what they could do–and they showed what they could do.

I still see this blamed on the supposed Israeli blockade and few, if any, people who do this mention the fact that Gaza shares a border with Egypt and Israel has little influence on what could come across that border.

Comment on The perverse equivalence by Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:53:24 +0000

Ooops, typo.

I like to use the analogy of digging a hole. The first rule when one has dug himself into a hole is stop digging. This administration is trying to replace the shovel with a backhoe.

Comment on The perverse equivalence by Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:52:34 +0000

I like to use the analogy of digging a hole. The first rule when one has dug himself into a hole is

Comment on Negotiating by tantrum by Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:11:33 +0000

Abbas did a doctoral thesis, never disavowed, denying the Holocaust. I suspect that’s not a good basis for moderation.

I wish the Arabs would make up their minds. They seem to contend alternately that the Holocaust didn’t happen and that Hitler should have finished the job. One or the other, guys.

Comment on Negotiating by tantrum by Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:39:49 +0000

Are there really members of Israel’s “Security Establishment” so clueless as to think that more Israel concessions to Abbas would achieve anything?

Give it a rest. Let the Arabs stew in their own hatred and poverty for a while. Carry on the economic development of Judea and Samaria as long as there are no significant terrorist attacks from there. Whack the Arabs anytime they attack Israel. After ten years let us see how they feel.