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By: white pebble » Blog Archive » Why a Zionist?

white pebble » Blog Archive » Why a Zionist? — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:06:22 +0000

[…] (Yet another) Excellent essay by Meryl… I sit in Israel itself as I read it, so extra cheers! I shall be very cross with you all if you don’t go read it. Yourish.com Â» Reply to an Egyptian letter-writer An Egyptian asks: Why am I a Zionist? […]

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:58:50 +0000

My response to the Egyptian wuld be “Why are you not a Zionist?”

By: Mike Nargizian

Mike Nargizian — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:31:03 +0000

Who cares who won the election honestly.
Wey’re hoping that corrupt thug kleptocrats who want to destroy Israel and fund and celebrate terror murder but feign Western lines in English beat genocidal Islamist fanatics who can’t be as much bathered to feign differently in English.
If you read my post on this it’s not much different than why Mubarrek continues to fund the Muslim Brotherhood so he can say to the Americans keep sending the 2 Billion because look at the alternative.
Soccer Dad take a full read of these Egyptian bloggers as well.
http://dailyscorecard.blogspot.com/2005/09/back-with-great-fall-post.html

By: Elisson

Elisson — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 13:02:18 +0000

Brilliant. I’d like to think that you planted a few seeds with that one.

By: Soccer Dad

Soccer Dad — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 06:17:57 +0000

Around the web 10/03/2005

Secular Blasphemy explains why it was good that Fatah dominated recent elections over Hamas:Still, it probably tells a lot that people are happy that a thoroughly corrupt and murderous party wins the election, since the alternative is worse. One point…

By: Ben F

Ben F — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 06:10:09 +0000

So, did you ever hear back from Heba? I had an interesting e-mail dialogue a few years back with a Lebanese grad student who briefly posted on LGF under the name Triana Beller before getting banned. Thinking that I was one of the more level-headed commenters (go figure!), she contacted me to explain that a certain post of hers had been misunderstood.

Our exchanges went on for a while, but ended when I responded to her charge that Israel was a colonial state by contending that her label could better be applied to the states that actually were created by the colonial powers after WWI, states such as [Trans]Jordan, Iraq, Syria, and, yes, Lebanon. Whereas the Jews fought the colonial power (the UK) to create a state of their own.

Never heard from her again.

Peace will be nearer when there is greater interest on the Arab side in true dialogue.

By: Harry

Harry — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 03:16:12 +0000

Meryl
Check out these two sites
Big Pharaoh
http://bigpharaoh.blogspot.com/
and
Egyptian Sand Monkey
http://egyptiansandmonkey.blogspot.com/
They show that there are some sane Egytians.
Also there standard of English seems to be higher than many an American
Harry

By: Mike Nargizian

Mike Nargizian — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:46:44 +0000

Assuming the Palis have a right to create their own state then why didn’t the Egyptians let them create one in the 19 years they owned the Gaza Strip?
And the Palis weren’t even seeking to destroy Egypt either.
lol….

By: Di Kats Der Payats

Di Kats Der Payats — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:03:31 +0000

Good job, Meryl. It’s always good to hear questions like Heba’s responded to with such detail and facts.

As to this:
“The Arab nations, including Egypt, declared war on the Jews.”

I would add that the “Palestinian” Arabs were encouraged by those nations to flee at the outbreak of hostilities, thereby creating the refugee problem, and that Jordan had a golden opportunity to create a “Palestinian” state between 1949 and 1967, but did nothing.