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rachamim18 said:
Panda: "Cun%." It is there for the owner and anyone else who cares to look. I have better things to do then dig it out. In any event, it is moot...
No it isn't. You've made an accusation, it's incumbent on you to either substantiate it or to apologise for making a false claim.
...since EVERY OTHER POST TO ME, by THAT PERSON, consisted of vile garbage of the same caliber. Calling me "F" this, MF" that is no different than calling my mom a sexual name. You argue semantics as if it matters all the time.
If Grandma Death used remarks "of the same caliber" in "every other post" then you should have little difficulty in substantiating your claim that he did so, should you?
If a person calls you "Fuc&ing As^hole" everytime they pop up what does it matter what they call your mom. I used it as an example because it was one that stood out because she/he focused on someone close to me as opposed to just me. I am sure that the "owner" saw this when looking because they never again touched on it.
If someone calls me a "fucking arsehole", a "cunt", a "motherfucker", a "shithead" or any of hundreds of other epithets, that's ENTIRELY DIFFERENT to them calling my mother a "cunt". The former may be due to disagreement, the latter would be spite.
Like I said, you should have no difficulty substantiating your claim, if examples abound.
You should spend less time trying to uncover me, a person you do not know, as a liar and more on real isssues.
I don't need to "uncover you" as a liar, Rachamim, neither do I need to "spend time" doing so. Most of your falsehoods are so anile that they require little or no extra effort or time to expose.
What I do or do not do is not going to matter one iota if a person actually cares about a political issue. Too many like you see it as a personal contest. I do not. I do see it as a search for truth (if a bit corny on phrasing) and that does not require any personal evaluations of a person I have never met.
Requirement doesn't have anything to do with it, neither does viewing debate as a "personal contest". The issue reduces to: "ideas have effects in the real world. Honesty is required, propaganda is not". You sow propaganda, others choose to refute your propaganda. I've been doing the same thing with fascists and racists in the UK for 30 years.
My complaining about the lack of civility is my trying to pain myself as a victim? Pretty ridiculous Panda. By your way of looking at things one complaining of being shat on from a dog is just portraying themselves as victim. Panda, get off it. It is not about you, nor me. If you managed to display such an impressive grasp of English than surely you have realised that little kernel of truth soemwhere along the way?
What a fine analogy, except that it misses it's mark by a mile.
This isn't merely about your whining about discourtesy, it's about the way you manouvre your posts so that any argument against your thesis is seen by you as an attack on your character rather than your arguments. If someone calls you a liar it isn't because they believe that you lie in all things, it's because they believe you are lying about the issue under debate. Incivility is occasionally used to emphasise a sense of disgust.
"Claims about ISM. " Have to refresh my memory on those eince there is so much to talk about with them. Here are a few though, tell me if they ring a bell:
I) The group is a terrorist haven.

II) the group claims to stand for peace but supports the use of violent terrorism.

III) the group serves a well defined political agenda irrespetive of their supposed anarchist leanings.

IV) Shapiro, the group's cofounder isa liar.

V) The group has purposely fabricated photos on at least two occasions and admitted one of them at least, in relation to Reuters who caught them and admonished them publicly.

Want more?
Yeah, why not, let's have some more unsupported and unsubstantiated claims about ISM
"Talking about the ACTUAL definition of the word." And you yourself admitted that "progeny" means what I said it did, and? Just more pointless quibbling.
No, you made an argument that the definition extended into side-branches of the extended family. If you'd bothered to read my original post on the subject properly you'd have seen that I'd already, before you even mentioned it, acknowledged that the word meant "lineal descent from".
"Many politicians and commentators have specialisations outside of politics." Yep, but they work in th field, devote their lives to it as opposed to specialised and atrocious agendas . You love peace? Admirable but peace involves @ PARTIES. Chomsky, Finkelstein, and Shahak before them are just stooges. Fine and dany but anyone latching onto a stooge because they match their political orientation when trying to discuss multi faceted issues is a stooge themself.

It is as if I sat here quoting Rav Kahane all day. Or alternatively the IMFA, or AIPAC, or ADL, or JDL, or JDO, and so on. It is pointless. You and others seem to think Chomsky,etc. are the cat's meow because they say things you agree with and their only real qualification is being Jews...and that of course would mean I am the oracle of truth as well.
Except, of course, that few threads contain references to Chomsky or Finkelstein and their work (it's unnecessary to do so when the state of Israel exposes to the world it's egregious behaviours so often), so your analogy (as before) misses it's mark.
"Verification that Shahak, Finenkelstein, and Chomsky denigrate Israelis as a whole." Sorry, since you quote them verbatim
Ah, another claim you can't substantiate.
Do you know why? Because I've never quoted Chomsky on these boards (although I posted a link to an "anti-Chomsky" site because it's poor scholarship had high comedy value), and the only item of Finkelstein's I've ever quoted was a set of figures for reparations made by the German auto-industry.
yuo are well aware on that one. Do not wate wither of our time. Were it another who does not know of the 3, fine.
One problem with your "thesis", Rachamim, I've never read anything by Shahak, and I've never posted either a quotation or a link to his/her work.
You are merely , as usual, just trying to be antognistic. TRhen you top it off with "mom is cu%t" again just perfectly illustrating that your point is to inflame and villify as opposed as actual, perish the thought, discourse.
YOU were the party that brought up the "your mother is a cunt" issue again, Rachamim. No one else.
Your sentence reads as though you're now you're claiming that I'm calling your mother a cunt too.
Are you really that piss-ignorant?
 
rachamim18 said:
Panda: And not one iota talking about this thread. So sad Panda...

It took you three days to post a reply that's not at all germane to the thread?

At least my responses to you had some connection to it (for example with claims you've made pertaining to the subject of this thread).

Still, if you get a kick out of being sanctimonious, go right ahead.
 
rachamim18 said:
V) The group has purposely fabricated photos on at least two occasions and admitted one of them at least, in relation to Reuters who caught them and admonished them publicly.

I'm surprised you are still regurgitating this shit. Do you have no shame?
 
ViolentPanda said:
If Grandma Death used remarks "of the same caliber" in "every other post" then you should have little difficulty in substantiating your claim that he did so, should you?

Its the 'Ad Hom' defence. Make up slurs and attacks to deflect from the lies. Piss weak :rolleyes:
 
Spion said:
is it just me or are Rach's posts looking increasingly mental just now?

Praps he could post in green so readers can tell with a quick glance what they're in for

His posts have always looked a bit mental but you're right, recently his posts have become massive incoherent ramblings. I suspect that his continued use of opiates is to blame. ;)
 
Panda:"Chomsky and his family." I have more family info on th man than I will talk about here. I know what I said and since it is not really relevant to the discussion we can leave it wherever you like, meas liar, etc. It does not change it.

Right, you've done this before: threatened to smear Chomsky because, in your eyes, he's a "self-hating" Jew. He asks awkward questions about Israel's ongoing brutalisation of the Palestinian people and this makes him "self-hating"? Oh, the Orwellian logic of it all.
 
Nino: Any Jew .especially any Ashkenaz Jew, who supports in any way Nazis and their agenda is a person with real mental problems.

Opposing Israel is not being self hating. However, doing so time after time without ever once bringing any context (i.e. acts by Arabs) into the dicussion is sign of obsession.

Why obsess over Israel? Israel is a Jewish Nation, the only one. Ergo, if a person obsesses over it it is because they are obessed with Jews in a negative way. If you are for peace and Human Rights then you want this for all people. If instead your agenda is partisan, it is ripe for examination and criticism.
What is a "Self Hating Jew?" The term was coined, it is generally belived, in the early 20th Century CE/AD to describe Jews who upon immigrating to the US or UK shed all Jewishness as if in shame. Many Jews who adopted names typically held by non-Jews (Smith, Brown, Johnson, and so on). It was used to describe those Jews who poohed poohed their People who still wore tradional Jewish attire or maintained facial hair.

So, if it was used to describe THAT type of behavoir, I would imagine that is so much better to describe a Jew who willingly published with Nazi publishing houses thus earning them cash to further their racist agendas, who defends their questioning of prime events surrounding the torture and killing of millions of relatives.

Are you at all familiar with Professor Gilman at U of Chicago? He has pioneered a good deal of cultural theory as it relates to Jews. He is actually what is termed a Cultural Historian , a term I do not pretend to understand above a basic modicum. I do however respect his work on the medical profession and so on. Anyway, he postulates that a Self Hating Jew is not a Jew who hates paticular Israeli policies but a Jew who says that the state should not exist at all a a state for the Jewish People is indeed Self Hating. to delve further, it is a Jew (and the dynamic applies to any other closely related ethnic group) who internalises the larger society's negative streotype of that paticular group.

I should note that Gilman takes a different route as to the origin of this phenomenon , laying guilt at the hands of a group of Jews in a paticulr Jewish academy in Germany who were debating the worthiness of the newly minted Reform Movement. It is far beyond me to figure out just how Gilman can pinpoint such a widespread dynamic.

Chomsky interestingly, with his usual delusions of granderu, places himself among Biblical greatness when he offers that the phenomenon actually was evident in the Bilical story of King Ahab. Chomsky actually has the pomposity to liken himself to the Biblical prophet Elijah.

Chomsky , also quite interestingly, takes Israel to task (very hard indeed) about what he sees as the nation's racist nature. It should not be tolerated he warns us and then he turns right around and defends Faurisson! Not only does he defend him, he writes and Introduction to a tome by Faurisson!! As if that was not bad enough, and it was indeed beyond vile, Chomsky then allows a NeoNazi publishing house to publish his book!!! It is terrible that Israel is so racist but it is ok for Faurisson to be?!? I guess it it is allowable if it targets Jews. noooo Nino, that would not be the epitome of a Self Hating Jew.

"Political Economy of Human Rights." Simply explore the sordid history of that patocular book. That would probably cast a great deal of light onto the issue for a rational person.

As a persdon, aside form his Jewish centered issues, he is a deply flawed man. First, why would any rational person allow a Lingusit t shape their political ideology? You Westernes are all so cute when you get your knickers twistend and damp over that hypocritical bufoon. A man that criticises capitalism and maintains that tax havens and concentration of wealth are evil, holds a 2,000,000 US tax shelter!!!

You want to continue this? You still have never answered me whan I offered to allow my Shoeshine boy to rewrite your political ideology. A shoeshine least as capable as a Linguist, right? Then when you factor in Chomsky's apparent mental issue(s) it makes it all the more real!
 
nosos said:
... at least as capable as one of the world's top living academics, right?
Of course. A junkie ex-fascist of my acquaintance said so. And if that's not a 24 carat recommendation I don't know what is :D
 
rachamim18 said:
Nino: Any Jew .especially any Ashkenaz Jew, who supports in any way Nazis and their agenda is a person with real mental problems.

Blah, blah, blah, I hate Chomsky blah, blah, blah, I'm a windbag...

You needn't have bothered with your unnecessarily long and pointless essay. You've said nothing that you haven't said before. And, once again, your smearing of Chomsky is juvenile in the extreme. I wasn't aware that Noam Chomsky was a fervent supporter of the Nazi regime but then you're not exactly the fount of truth - are you?
 
Nosos: First, being an academic does not then mean that you are qualified to dominate every subject in the world. The man is a linguist. He has done some groundbreaking work in Linguistics. He has no expertise at all in the area of Israel or the Middle east. His sole claim to fame (meaning the claim he makes, not that others attribute to him) is that he is a Jew who denounces Israel, vehemntly.

He is not a Political Scientist, he is not a Mid-East Studies professor nor does he have any training that might in the least be even moderately useful.

He is also a hypocrite. On and on about Israeli violence, about Israeli imperialism,and not a single comment about Arab vioence against Jews, or even against other Arabs. He mentions nothing bout Israel ceding Gaza, about how Jordan and every other Mid-East nation is the direct result of imperialism and colonialism. Does he ever mention how Jordan is comprised of 80% of th originally envisoned "Palestine"?
Israel leaves Gaza, Gaza erupts in chaos and what does Chomsky do? ignore all of ti and criticise Israel again and again. This is a clear indication of bias.

IF you focus 100% of your attention upon Israel and than ignore oppositional acts of the same (alleged) caliber, then you are a clear phony.

Spion:"Junkie ex-fascist said so..." First, denigrating a drug user/adict on a website heavily devoted to drugs is pretty much the act of an imbecile. Not that I would dream of trying to pinpoint your (surely) many failing.

Second, do you even know what a fascist is? Nazis were not called fascists because of the rcially based ideology. Try learning what it means and then explain why you would dream that I am one.

Nino: "Chomky as a supporter of the Nazi regime." No, I never said this. I DID say Chomsky wrote a forawad for Faurisson's book. Associate with him and Guillame and then made a coscious decison to publish with Guillame, thus earning funds for Nazi activities. He has done other things as well.

Given that he downs people for using the term "Aparthied" when comparing anything Israel does, I find it very strange that Chomsky is friendly with Nazis. sTrange.
 
rachamim18 said:
Nino: "Chomky as a supporter of the Nazi regime." No, I never said this. I DID say Chomsky wrote a forawad for Faurisson's book. Associate with him and Guillame and then made a coscious decison to publish with Guillame, thus earning funds for Nazi activities. He has done other things as well.

Given that he downs people for using the term "Aparthied" when comparing anything Israel does, I find it very strange that Chomsky is friendly with Nazis. sTrange.

More anti-Chomsky smears. It's amusing how you often resort to this sort of thing. There is no basis whatsoever for these smears; not one scintilla of truth can be detected within your excoriation.

Your hero, Ze'ev Jabotinsky was quite prepared to ask the Nazis for assistance in throwing off the British 'yoke'. I don't recall Chomsky making any such overtures to Nazis, neo or otherwise. But then, you're the one who demands that we take a legal 'scholar' like Dershowitz seriously when it is clear that a legal mind is quite a different thing to a serious academic and scholar.
 
He is not a Political Scientist, he is not a Mid-East Studies professor nor does he have any training that might in the least be even moderately useful.

Is Dershowitz a "political scientist" or a "Mid-Eat studies professor"? No, he is neither, yet you freely allude to his writings.

Weak.
 
rachamim18 said:
There WERE and ARE refugess but only less than 650,000 and most because of their own piss poor choices.

Were these Arab civilians in Haifa making piss poor choices as they ran from this?:

“During the morning [the Jews] were continually shooting down on all Arabs who moved both in Wadi Nisnas and the Old City. This included completely indiscriminate and revolting machine gun fire, mortar fire and sniping on women and children sheltering in churches and attempting to get out . . . through the gates into the docks . . The 40 Royal Marine Commando who control the docks . . . sent the Arabs through in batches but there was considerable congestion outside the East Gate of hysterical Arab women and children and old people on whom the Jews opened up mercilessly with fire. Two [Royal Marine] officers were seriously wounded.” (Tactical HQ, 1st Coldstream Guards, ‘Battalion Sitrep’ 22 Paril 1948, 16.30hrs, PRO WO 261-297, cited in B Morris, the Birth of . . . p191)
 
rachamim18 said:
There WERE and ARE refugess but only less than 650,000 and most because of their own piss poor choices.

Were Arab civilians making piss poor choices when they fled the Zionist war machine after things like this had happened in Deir Yassin?:

“In the quarry near Givat Shaul I saw the five Arabs they had paraded in the streets of the city. They had been murdered and were lying one on top of the other . . . I saw with my own eyes several families murdered with their women, children and old people, their corpses were lying on top of each other . . . the dissidents were going about the village robbing and stealing everything: chickens, radio sets, sugar, money, gold and more . . . Each dissident walked about the village dirty with blood and proud of the number of people he had killed.” (‘Avraham’ [Meir Pa’il] to Jerusalem District OC, 10 April 1948, in Haganah General Staff\Operations\intelligence to Haganah Corps, ‘Lessons from the dissidents’ operations in Deir Yassin’, HA20\253, cited in Morris, the Birth of . . . p238)
 
Naim Ateek had just turned 11 when forces of the Haganah, the pre-Israel Zionist paramilitary organization, occupied his village of Beisan in Palestine. Days later, the villagers were informed that they were to be "evacuated," forcibly moved off land that Palestine's Jewish minority now claimed for its own state. Ordered to gather in the village center, the Ateeks took what they could carry, and joined the other frightened families, all clutching heirlooms, photographs, jewelry, and awaiting an uncertain future, away from the homes in and lands on which their families had lived for generations.

It is perhaps surprising then, that even after this experience of forcible dispossession, and even after the shock of the 1967 war, in which thousands more Palestinians were displaced and the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem came under military occupation, even after years of witnessing and enduring brutality at the hands of Israeli soldiers and settlers, Ateek has been a constant advocate of nonviolence as the only course for Palestinian independence. A parish minister to Palestine's small Christian community since 1966, Ateek founded the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in 1989 for the purpose of developing a theology to help Palestinians cope with and overcome the daily oppression and injustice they continue to endure as a subject population under military occupation.
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=a_history_of_nonviolence
 
Did anyone see Clash of Civilisations on BBC2 on Sunday? It was a very timely reminder of how this whole situation happened: British intransigence, territorial greed and cultural ignorance paved the way for what was to come. Add to this the Crusader language employed by the press when Allenby entered Jerusalem et voila!

I wonder if rach realises what actually happened in places like Hebron or if he also realises that, prior to the British mandate, Jews, Muslims and Xtians lived side by side. The violence only began after the mandate.
 
Nino, I'm sorry to have missed that programme - still, it's good that the whole background is being explored by the media and shown on mainstream Tv.

The way that some portray this conflict is as though it's entirely militant muslims against Jews and based on religious-clash or culture-clash - or that it's rightful heirs vs. interlopers - all these portrayals are so far from the truth.
 
I wa skeptical about the way the programme framed things at first - it was actually called Clash of Worlds - but the insight it gave onto the thinking of those British christian zionists of the WW1/1920s was quite startling. The folly/memorial in the grounds of Sir Mark Sykes' country pile that showed him as a crusader standing on a muslim with Jerusalem in the background was quite something
 
Dershowitz, Hidden Hand Behind Oxford Union’s Cancellation of Finkelstein Invitation

And Jerry again comes up with the goods in this e mail he published at his blog from the Oxford Union president to Finkelstein explaining why he felt compelled to rescind the invitation:

"Many people expressed concern that the debate as it stood was imbalanced and people felt that as someone who had apparently expressed anti-zionist sentiments that you might not be appropriate for this debate. I tried to convince them otherwise but was accused of putting forward an imbalanced debate and various groups put pressure on me. I received numerous emails attacking the debate and Alan Dershowitz threatened to write an Oped attacking the Union. What is more he apparently attacked me personally in a televised lecture to Yale.

"I hope that you understand my position, this is not ideal and I would be happy to welcome you as an individual speaker to the Union in a forthcoming term. I know that the President-Elect Emily Partington would be keen to host you in Hilary. I just did not want to see the debate compromised and given the Irving Griffin Controversy I couldn't fight a battle on all fronts."
So Alan Dershowitz is the not-so-hidden hand behind this brouhaha and he's mugged Norman Finkelstein yet again. But just as when he succeeded in persuading DePaul to can Finkelstein, in doing so he made himself look like an ass and Finkelstein the victim.

It is indeed delicious to read Dershowitz's attack on the Oxford Union from Frontpagemagazine as featured at Finkelstein's site. For every lie Dershowitz levels at him, Finkelstein provides a link that disproves it or shows Dershowitz's utter hypocrisy. Read the text and follow the links as Finkelstein demolishes him through the fine web art of cross-linking–it's very entertaining. And by the way, next time someone tries to tell you the Jerusalem Post is not a right-wing shmate just ask them why they republish (or should I say, regurgitate) garbage like this from Frontpagemagazine.

The same Harry's Place comment thread provides confirmation for Jerry's contention that Finkelstein IS a supporter of a two-state solution:

The following is a rough trancript of his Sept. 4, 2003 debate with Dershowitz on Democracy Now:

Norman Finkelstein: Mr. Dershowitz then throws in another lie. He says oh, Finkelstein, he's an extremist, he doesn't support the two-state settlement.

My entire adult life I've been involved in the Israel-Palestine conflict. I started publishing on the topic in 1984. I wrote my doctoral dissertation on the topic in 1988. I lecture about 2-3 times a week on the topic. I'd like you to show me a statement where I say I don't support the two-state settlement. You said I don't support a two-state settlement, can you provide the evidence to that?

You can see this at 2:00 in the first video at this link[/QUOTE]

What this entire debate has taught me is that you can consider yourself opposed to the notion of a Jewish State (in other words, anti-Zionist) while still supporting the two state position as the most pragmatic and viable considering the political circumstances in which almost all Israelis would never accept a solution involving a single state. This is a notion that's far too nuanced for the Alan Dershowitz's brittle brain.
 
Spion said:
I wa skeptical about the way the programme framed things at first - it was actually called Clash of Worlds - but the insight it gave onto the thinking of those British christian zionists of the WW1/1920s was quite startling. The folly/memorial in the grounds of Sir Mark Sykes' country pile that showed him as a crusader standing on a muslim with Jerusalem in the background was quite something

I found the programme I think you're talking about, and placed links here (split into 3 10 minute youtube clips)
 
rachamim18 said:
Finkelstein is a sham. He has the audacity to say Israel and Jews in general capitalise on the genocide of the Holocaust to line their own pockets and make power grabs.

I disagree. He names and shames organisations and individuals most accurately and never indulges in laying blanket blame as you suggest. Given that his mother is a shoah survivor I believe he's well placed to make such allegations, and I for one welcome his well written books.
 
More on Finkelstein's mother:
On a brief biographical note, my mother grew up in Warsaw, Poland and was a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto, Maidanek concentration camp and two slave-labor camps. Every member of her family in Poland was exterminated. After the war she was a key witness at a Nazi deportation hearing in the U.S. and at the trial of Maidanek concentration camp guards in Germany. My late father survived the Warsaw ghetto, Auschwitz concentration camp and the Auschwitz death march. His entire family in Poland was also exterminated.
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=129
 
Spion said:
I wa skeptical about the way the programme framed things at first - it was actually called Clash of Worlds - but the insight it gave onto the thinking of those British christian zionists of the WW1/1920s was quite startling. The folly/memorial in the grounds of Sir Mark Sykes' country pile that showed him as a crusader standing on a muslim with Jerusalem in the background was quite something

Then Allenby's lecture in Jerusalem. It seems the entire lot of them were Xtian Zionists except Lawrence.
 
invisibleplanet said:
Nino, I'm sorry to have missed that programme - still, it's good that the whole background is being explored by the media and shown on mainstream Tv.

The way that some portray this conflict is as though it's entirely militant muslims against Jews and based on religious-clash or culture-clash - or that it's rightful heirs vs. interlopers - all these portrayals are so far from the truth.

Of course, the same thing was replicated elsewhere too: Iraq, Ireland... It doesn't get explained on the news...time, I suppose...and laziness too are to blame for this.
 
Dhimmi said:
I disagree. He names and shames organisations and individuals most accurately and never indulges in laying blanket blame as you suggest. Given that his mother is a shoah survivor I believe he's well placed to make such allegations, and I for one welcome his well written books.

Also, given that his book was published in UK, anyone falsely accused by Finkelstein would have been able to sue in the British libel courts, which are notoriously biased towards the plaintiffs.

What conclusion are we to draw from the fact that Finkelstein has not been sued by anyone named in his book?
 
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