Comments on: Stranglehold https://www.yourish.com/2006/08/25/1940 Cutting straight to the point Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:07:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Alex Bensky https://www.yourish.com/2006/08/25/1940/comment-page-1#comment-19416 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:07:31 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/08/25/1940#comment-19416 No surprises here, Meryl, but merely another operation of what you insist on calling the “Exception Clause” but is more properly referred to as “the Bensky Corollary to Everything.”

It’s OK, or at least excusable and understandable, unless Jews do it. Apparently this is causing great consternation and distress among the Arab blogsphere:

http://ontheface.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/7/20/2142505.html

Strapping mock explosives onto toddlers is OK if you’re a Pali. Writing slogans on shells is depraved if you’re Israeli.

]]> By: Michael Lonie https://www.yourish.com/2006/08/25/1940/comment-page-1#comment-19381 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 03:15:40 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/08/25/1940#comment-19381 Ah David, the Syrians were there to save the Lebanese from the brutal Israelis dontcherknow. All progressive people know that the Israelis are the new Nazis, a bunch of fascistic tyrants and terrorists told them so. Nothing at all to do with “Greater Syria”, no nothing. Nothing to see here, move along now.

]]> By: David Gerstman https://www.yourish.com/2006/08/25/1940/comment-page-1#comment-19367 Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:02:32 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/08/25/1940#comment-19367 Just like when Israel has troops in Lebanon it’s *shudder* “occupation” but when Syria’s more brutal, longer serving troops were there it was “military presence” or some such innocuous euphemism.

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