Comments on: In speech to hawkish US Jews, Netanyahu omits major threats

By: Jazzy

Jazzy — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:44:26 +0000

Your comment: [“For me, the time to boycott Israel will be when I think that not just a specific administration, but the entire regime is illegitimate and needs to be overthrown.”
Noam, I feel we have unfortunately reached that time – what would qualify for you as an “illegitimate regime”?]
Mairav – you said, unambiguously, that you believe we’ve reached the time “to boycott Israel.” In the words of Norman Finkelstein, “I loathe the disingenuousness.” You really are a fan of twisting the meaning of words, something I first noticed during the “Israel Firster” debate. I don’t know where you think this kind of stuff will take your argument – not far I’m afraid.

By: Mairav Zonszein

Mairav Zonszein — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:11:39 +0000

@William – excellent point.
@Jazzy – I said I think the regime, in its entirety, should be overthrown.

By: William Burns

William Burns — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:37:08 +0000

Interesting that Bibi omitted the great delegitimization crisis this time.

By: Jazzy

Jazzy — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:30:44 +0000

The girl who said, commenting on Noam Wiener’s piece, that she’s in favor of BOYCOTTING Israel now says she’s worried about poverty levels in Israel. PRIME MINISTER Mairav, “if you had one once of integrity in you”…no, too easy, too easy…Seriously though please keep this up – the sooner BDS crashes into the ocean for good, the sooner the adults in the room will be able to rebuild a credible peace movement.

By: Piotr Berman

Piotr Berman — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:28:03 +0000

I checked http://chinachallenges.blogs.com/

Definitely more than 4. Some seems quite depressing. Some of you may know that China controlled population growth very rigorously and combined with traditional preference for male children there is a shortage of girls. The depressing news is that the girls know it and behave accordingly.

@大鹏看天下: Beijing, subway, a girl in red with a thick Beijing accent scolds her boyfriend as “useless”: “A man without money is garbage/trash! Not having money, just thinking about it is frightening! You’ll be nothing in the future, and you want me to marry you, forget it! I’m moving out tonight, bye bye~”

That much for ordinary girls. In the meantime, goddesses are not pretty! http://chronicle.com/article/College-in-China-Loses-Face/130243/?sid=gn&utm_source=gn&utm_medium=en Israel as a monoteistic country does not have a problem of statues of gods with faces of college donors. Imagine your college adorned with a stature of Apollo (or Fuxi) with the face of Sheldon Adelson.

By: kafantaris

kafantaris — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:53:38 +0000

When Palestinian TV is on, it shows Sesame Street.
When it shows Sesame Street, it shows Bert.
When it shows Bert, it shows it might be OK to be gay.
When it shows it might be OK to be gay, the TV censors come out.
When the TV censors come out, they get friendly with the Palestinians.
Don’t let your TV censors get friendly with the Palestinians.
Confiscate Palestinian TV.

By: POLTERGEIST

POLTERGEIST — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:53:05 +0000

And in other news: With violence becoming routine in the Middle East estimates of casualties have been moved to the weather forecast section. Here’s the weather forecast for tomorrow: Cloudy. Highs in the mid 30s and lows in the upper teens. Around 150 dead Arabs. Chance of rain 50%.

By: Anne O'Nimmus

Anne O'Nimmus — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:09:01 +0000

Perhaps your No4 should be called ‘Accelerating Extremism’. It would cover what’s been going on, especially over the last few years, and covers both religious and secular political extremism. There seems to be no brakes and no buffers to slow down or stop the increasing madness.