Comments on: Despite dissatisfaction, U.S. Jews won’t be abandoning Israel that soon

By: Georgia Moritz

Georgia Moritz — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:04:41 +0000

Both Israelis and Palestinians seem to be ignoring climate change and its threat to the human race as a whole–but climate change will also ignore them.
Will they still be arguing over who owns it when it has become s desert, unfit to support human life? They both claim to love their land.

By: Greg Pollock

Greg Pollock — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:57:58 +0000

This is about what McCarthyites said in the US. It is what Jim Crow whites said in the South (and elsewhere). It’s what the Communist Party of the USSR said about its dissidents. As to this site being in English; there is a huge propoganda/news campaign supported by the Israeli State, directed to English speakers. As to silencing in times of war, you are not in ongoing, actual war in any way which could be damaged by this site. You simply want them to be silenced because they break your code of acceptable thought. But their thought is always being broken by others; yet they still speak out. Find someone more powerful to kick–and see what happens.

By: Kolumn9

Kolumn9 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:32:05 +0000

That is ok, since none of you get to vote.

By: Shmuel

Shmuel — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:30:21 +0000

“Another thing that turns off most US Jews, who are mostly sane, is that sort of deranged reaction”

You mean a reaction to your statement: “Read the prophets, Shmuel”? That was not an insane statement by you Aristo?

By: aristeides

aristeides — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:07:47 +0000

Another thing that turns off most US Jews, who are mostly sane, is that sort of deranged reaction as a substitute for actually engaging with the issues.

Sane people merely dismiss the raving and turn away. I suspect you get lots of this response.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:36:03 +0000

OF COURSE this website has a bias. I can’t think of a single ME-related site that has a Solomonic approach to Israelis and Palestinians (and other Israeli-Arab issues). The reason 972 bores me is not that it takes a far-Left approach on these matters. The reason 972 bores me is that it presents tired, fact-sparse, non-reflective arguments that show for the umpteenth time that the Israeli Left has never acknowledged and dealt with the reasons that they are despised by most of the Israeli populace, and that those reasons are why candidates connected to them have gotten their asses kicked in elections for several years and counting.
In the end, I suppose that 972 is like Haaretz: a staff of intelligent partisans who have small and rabid fan bases but are simply not engaging with reality to make arguments that will work outside of their Comments sections.

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:13:06 +0000

Nevertheless, the reality in the states is that the Netanyahu coalition (moving further and further fanatically to the right) has gone too far.

MANY of us have chose to abstain.

By: Arieh

Arieh — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 08:41:16 +0000

Richard

I too believe in the concept of live and let live.

Unfortunately where you and I probably disagree is whether the Palestinians as a people believe in it too. I think they don’t and never accepted the idea of a Jewish nation state. You probably don’t agree.

But most Israelis feel the same way about it as I do. We learnt this through bitter experience.

Will they change in the future? We certainly hope so. But we don’t know when. And in the meanwhile, we need to look out for ourselves. We cannot afford to undertake crazy experiments with an enemy that has a track record of taking advantage of every concession that we make and gives us nothing in return but more grief.

By: Shmuel

Shmuel — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 05:37:15 +0000

I have, Aristo. And they tell me that people like you will be judged by Israel when the Messiah comes. Be worried, just in case

By the way, you have not answered my question. Very telling.

By: aristeides

aristeides — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 05:12:28 +0000

Read the prophets, Shmuel.