Comments on: The Goldstone Report Kangaroo Court

By: Herschel

Herschel — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:11:45 +0000

“And I say this as a liberal and a Democrat.” Karmafish, how can you still support this bankrupt ideology? I left the liberal dems many years ago when I realized how twisted their Israel logic had become, and how if they were so wrong about this fundamental subject, then how valid was the rest of their thought process? Try being independent, and support those that support Israel, because that is really the foundation of good vs. evil in this world.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:57:52 +0000

It’s not just that he finds Israel’s legal system, which in fact is about as open as any in the world, to be secretive, it’s that he finds Hamas’s legal system to be more just and open than Israel’s. Nothing, absolutely nothing, could be further from the truth.

But I am sure Goldstone rests secure in the knowledge that he has proved he’s not like those dirty, oppressive Israelis; he can rise above all that and show sympathy for the other side. Phooey.

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:02:06 +0000

Of course, one of the translations of “P’lishtim” which the Romans transliterated to “Palestine” and which the Arab immigrants of the 1870’s eventually (after 1946) took to calling themselves “Palestinians” actually means “invaders”.
The “Philistines were colonists from the Meditteranian (Crete? – I am not sure) who founded the five cities including the one for which the Gaza strip is named. They attempted to conquer and rule the Israelites and were finally defeated by King David. While they never attempted to fully conquer the Israelites, they expended a great deal of effort in preventing the rise of a unified state (much like the Arabs of today). While the Arabs of today are not the physical descendants of the P’lishtim, they are the spiritual descendats of those enemies of yore. Indeed, they will wind up suffering the same fate.

By: Karmafish

Karmafish — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:51:58 +0000

Yup.

Another tactic that anti-Israel ideologues use is to perpetually accuse Israel of what its enemies do. For example, if Hamas is a terrorist organization, than Israel is accused of being a “terrorist state.” If Hamas hides behind human shields, than they accuse Israel of hiding behind human shields. If the Palestinians are intransigent in negotiations, or refuse to negotiate, than they accuse Israel of not wanting peace, and so forth.

One of the sad things about all this, unfortunately, is that in the west it is among liberals and leftists that we find the greatest proportion of ideological Israel hatred. And I say this as a liberal and a Democrat. The Democratic party grassroots / netroots is just seething with contempt for the Jewish state. Sad to say, but there it is.