Comments on: Jewish history denial

By: Radine

Radine — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:43:14 +0000

Heh, thanks Meryl. And sorry Alex. I feel pretty silly now.

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:11:59 +0000

In reply to Radine. Radine, you might want to look into Alex's other comments. He was being sarcastic. He's a regular here, and, well, he's usually sarcastic.

By: Y

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:44:27 +0000

its ridiculous that christians and muslims are even given equal claims to jewish historical sites. these are jewish sites. christianity and islam may believe some of them are holy, but that does not make the sites belong to them, not even a little bit. do they have the right to pray there? yes. do they have any legitimate ownership claims over them? no. thats like muslims saying they have an equal claim to the church of the holy sepulchre because they also love jesus. or american neopagans trying to say they have an ownership claim on stonehenge because they practice some new form of druidry. its just beyond stupid. historical sites belong to the people-groups who built them. you can’t claim ownership over something that belongs to somebody else just because you have some attachment to it for whatever reason or other.

By: irina

irina — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:52:31 +0000

They don’t even understand the dangers that they are putting themselves in when they dance with the like for these people. Money is not going to buy off the utter violence that is their religion. The NYT maybe an American news paper but they have an agenda that they think will make the ARABS and ME like them more, but if you ask the Sudenease, they will tell you, these people can’t be de programmed against violence. Not in one generation, maybe not in 2 or 3, but that could only happen if we admit that THEY have a problem. The NYT is deliberately debilitating US.

By: heplev

heplev — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:21:37 +0000

Hm, there’s Ezekiel’s tomb in Iraq. Guess that makes Iraq occupied by the Zionists, doesn’t it?

By: Radine

Radine — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:19:00 +0000

@Alex Bensky
1. I’m guessing what you’re trying to say that Jews weren’t living in Hebron and had no historical claim to it. Or you could just be referring to Israel as a whole, it’s hard to tell. Either way the Jews were in Israel 2,000 years before Islam was founded.
2. You seem to be forgetting that the Jewish tribes were fighting Mohammed because he was trying to enslave and/or destroy them.
3. As such the only thing that’s irrelevant here is your argument.

By: Royce

Royce — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:07:17 +0000

Typical slanted coverage from the NY Times, which presupposses that Israel has no rights to the land.

The title itself implies that Israel’s plans is driving the violence, while denying the Palestinians false claims to the land has nothing to do with the unrest. Israel has bent over backwards in her attempt to bring peace to the area. Mr Tobin is correct that the UN only wants Israel to disappear. Even politicians who truly want peace are attempting to find a political solution to a religious problem.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:02:09 +0000

I explained this before, Meryl. You are being unreasonable. When analyzing Israeli behavior anything that happened before breakfast is irrelevant, so killing or forcing out Jews from a place where they weren’t living anyway because they have no historical connection to the land is not pertinent.

As to the Arabs…Jewish tribes fought Mohammed in the seventh century so you can hardly blame them now for hating Jews.

By: Elisson

Elisson — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:24:10 +0000

Israel has always protected religious sites, whether Jewish or not. By contrast, before 1967, Egypt and Jordan denied Jews access to any Jewish holy sites under their control, while doing their best to desecrate said sites. How easily people forget.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:27:42 +0000

re: Mr. Serry’s comments

I think most Christians would agree with me: we are not afraid of Israel controlling access to the sites. I would think at anyone with half a brain would understand that Christian access to the sites is better protected by the Israeli government than by leaving the sites in Palestinian hands.