Comments on: Time Magazine: Rhymes with crap https://www.yourish.com/2010/12/14/12909 Cutting straight to the point Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Michael Lonie https://www.yourish.com/2010/12/14/12909/comment-page-1#comment-42577 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:00:00 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=12909#comment-42577 Ah, but to understand the Crusades you have to regard them as a reaction to four and a nalf centuries of unprovoked imperialist aggression by the Muslims against the Christians. The Muslims are imperialist occupiers of once Christian (and Zoroastrian) land. Go home imperialists! Stop the occupation!

]]> By: Laurence Simon https://www.yourish.com/2010/12/14/12909/comment-page-1#comment-42554 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:31:34 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=12909#comment-42554 *shrug* They passed over Tayyip Erdowan to pick Mark Zuckerberg for Man Of The Year, so they’re doing something right, eh? (Okay, so he’s a lapsed Jew, but Jewish enough that I’m sure you’ll see protests from the usual embassy-burning mustache-cursing shoe-throwers.)

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]]> By: Alex Bensky https://www.yourish.com/2010/12/14/12909/comment-page-1#comment-42550 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:49:27 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=12909#comment-42550 When there was no separation barrier, when Palestinians could fairly freely enter Israel, many of them showed their appreciation for getting to know their Israeli neighbors by trying to murder them. When I lived in Israel, from 1972-75, travel between Israel proper and the territories was very easy and apparently all those years of getting to know Israel did not bring the Palestinians around to feeling of neighborliness.

But Vick ignores this because he follows the Bensky Bifurcated System of Middle Eastern Political Analysis which like the Bensky Corollary to Absolutely Everything (which Meryl persists in calling the Exception Clause, q.v.) explains a lot of what might otherwise, to less sophisticated minds, be seen as anti-Israel bias:

1. When it comes to analyzing Arab behavior you go back as far as you possibly can. Karen Armstrong, for example, has written that to understand the Arabs you have to consider the Crusades. (My guess is that if I started blowing up underground stations in London because the English expelled their Jews in 1290 she wouldn’t be so understanding, but that’s the Exception Clause in operation.)

2. When it comes to analyzing Israeli behavior, history began this morning. Thus it’s irrelevant as to why Israel built the barrier in the first place and how Israel came into possession of the territories in the first place of course is clearly out of bounds.

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