Comments on: Israel vs. The Rest, Part Three: Shitting the Way to Victory

By: Kazi

Kazi — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:54:10 +0000

First blog I read after wakeup from sleep today!

By: Dotan

Dotan — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:26:34 +0000

Hi,
I will add my voice to David’s Yasher Koach’s. I know it’s not easy to try and voice a peaceful agenda while people are “dying” to see war.
Trust me, it is not easier on this side of the ocean…

If you feel like brushing your Hebrew, here are my thoughts following the last two anti-war rallies in Tel-Aviv:

http://dvarim.blogli.co.il/archives/111

http://dvarim.blogli.co.il/archives/112

B’mehera B’yaminu, Amen…

By: David

David — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:09:18 +0000

If I ever get around to a coherent formulation of my thoughts on the issue, you’ll see that, this time at least, our politics differ substantially.

Nonetheless, a larger principle is more important to me than political concerns of the passing moment. Your zeal to stand up and be counted on the issue, to look deep down and come up with – then express – your uniquely Jewish approach on the subject, and then to challenge the Jewish community’s status quo with it – publicly, in person – is beyond commendable. It took courage, and chutzpah, and cohones. All too often, those who find their ideas falling outside of the mainstream community are too easily sidelined to outside of the Pale. You didn’t. Yasher koach bro.

And you draw a mean shin. A double yasher koach on that one.

By: jepaikin

jepaikin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:53:57 +0000

Wow, “C,” quite eloquently put. I couldn’t agree more. Thank you for your insight. Good to know others are around. Truth and justice, indeed.

B’emet v’tzedek.

By: C. Rosenberg

C. Rosenberg — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:30:12 +0000

It’s embarassing to see Jews hostile to debate and dialogue and making blanket statements like “there are no civilians in Gaza, etc..”. We have to be a people that fight for truth and justice instead of labelling an entire people our enemies without really understanding why they’re angry or without contemplating the possibility that we’re not always right. Its imperative that people understand all sides of the conflict. I find it difficult at this time to become critical of Israel with the immense backlash that the state is beginning to receive as it becomes more obvious that the military is expanding its operations, but we have to remember that it is really people, Jews and Palestinians, that are being killed, not some abstract, faceless ‘other’.