Israeli writer speaks out against Zionist oppression

[DreamTone7]

I would infer by the title that, amongst other things, you are also an anti-semite. Not cool. I think that this thread should be pulled...Laree certainly won't appreciate it...and there are others, myself included, that do not.

[questionnaire]

... because you are too stupid to understand the difference between anti-semitism and anti-Zionism?



Your defamation of my character has been passed on to my solicitor, and I will also make the strongest complaint to the board administrator.

[DreamTone7]

Please do...make all the complaints you care to. But while you are at it, could you please explain to me what YOU think the difference is between an anti-semite and an anti-zionist?

[questionnaire]

I know the difference between an anti-semite and an anti-Zionist, but because I charge over £20 an hour to teach people who are ignorant of these matters you can go to college and consult one of my fellow-professionals.



My solicitor has been informed.

[DreamTone7]

So...in other words you don't know. Somehow I'm not surprised. It is my belief that if you attack Zion, you attack Jews because that is what Israel IS. You may think that you can seperate the two so as not to appear politically incorrect, but the reality is that you do not get to make that decision. It is for the Jews to make that decision. And I'm pretty sure I know which decision that they will make on the issue.

[questionnaire]

No, wrong, I do know.



All educated people know.



You don't. Find out.



Your last post is too stupid to bother with.

[questionnaire]

btw, your 'beliefs' don't interest me.



I'm interested only in fact and analysis.

[DreamTone7]

...and the fact is that you don't get to make that decision...which is why you need to be a little more careful about what you post.



Where's Larree when you need him?

[questionnaire]

I've told you before, and I'm telling you again.



Do not f*cking tell me what to do.

[questionnaire]

Richard Ben Cramer grew up believing in Israel as a "land without people for a people with no land." A self-described "ham on rye" American Jew, his understanding of Israel remained largely superficial until he went there as a correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1977. He spent the next seven years reporting on the Middle East, winning a Pulitzer Prize. Along the way, he found that his identification with Israel and its people could coexist with his deepening sympathy for Palestinians and their cause.



In 2002, he went back to Israel, only to find a country much different from the one he'd lived in. His new book, How Israel Lost, collects his wry observations and lamentations about a place he no longer recognizes. "I thought I knew the country -- but it turned out, I didn't," he writes. "At least I couldn't understand how the country I knew was doing the things that I read about now." As Israeli tanks bulldozed Palestinian homes as collective punishment for suicide bombings and Israeli jets bombed residential neighborhoods to kill terrorist leaders, Cramer sensed that Israel was shooting itself in the foot. Israelis saw themselves as fighting for survival, but he wondered if they hadn't already lost what was most worth fighting for -- their soul, the "ache of humanity" that had drawn him to them two decades earlier.



Cramer is adamant, however, that the Israelis' loss is not the Palestinians' gain, that neither side benefits from the current stalemate. "It's gotten to the point where any idiot on either side can stop the peace process cold," he says. "One settler can slap on two bandoliers of ammunition and go shoot up a mosque and kill 30 people and stop any momentum. One kid can stuff his shirt full of dynamite and go ride on an Israeli bus and stop any momentum for peace. It's veto by the morons." He assails the leadership on both sides of the Green Line for profiting politically and financially from the conflict. He doesn't let Americans off the hook, either. "An American president will have to concede, along with his people, that Palestinians are also human beings who need a place on the planet."

[Seismic Anamoly]

Let ME do the honors, then...



Go Fu*k Yourself.



Old Twit.

[questionnaire]

pea-brain

[Seismic Anamoly]

Awww....I should have known.



It's too short.



Old Dullard.

[questionnaire]

I've just had a quick read of this thread.



A post about an Israeli writer criticizing America's attitude to the Palestinians, and the name-calling starts immediately, from 'anti-semite' to 'old dullard'.



You neo-cons lower everything to your own level.



Please go to university or read some books or something - anything to improve your minds before your mouths open or your finger type.

[DreamTone7]

Then let me refresh your memory. My gripe was with the title...not the content. Nice try, though.