Comments on: Letter from Tripoli: An eyewitness account

By: Nathalie

Nathalie — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:38:05 +0000

Today van Rompuy (EU president) stated he is appalled by the lack of action from the EU leaders when it comes to helping the Libyan resistance. He said: are we going to stand by and watch while another Srebrenica, another Rwanda, another Dafur is going to take place?

I think he is right- and cannot help but question why we do nothing.
Thank you Lisa for writing this article and caring.

By: How to send a writer to Egypt: my experiment in journalism 2.0 | Lisa Goldman

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:35:01 +0000

[...] up by Andrew Sullivan on his blog, the Daily Dish), but not a paid one. The same goes for having my interview with “Ali,” a friend in Tripoli, picked up and re-posted on the Reuters site after I published it on +972 [...]

By: Maxim Reider

Maxim Reider — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:54:44 +0000

OK now I see. It does not follow naturally from the text, or maybe I missed something or maybe just I’m out of the narrative.
Anyway, the biopic at Facebook, with a pro make up and a wandering glance, is a sheer knock out.

By: Lisa Goldman

Lisa Goldman — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:07:57 +0000

A national Zionist = איחוד לאומי

A political ideology.

By: Maxim Reider

Maxim Reider — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:29:35 +0000

Lisa, this is exactly what I say. You are an Israeli citizen and excellent journalist, as I will never be tired to repeat. You always bring fresh materials, you writing skills are brilliant and you often manage to write in two dimensions simultaneously. And to ignite the readership.

But, Lisa, how can you call anybody a Zionist? Are YOU not a Zionist but just a rich Canadian tourist?

This is what I meant.

By: Lisa Goldman

Lisa Goldman — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:52:10 +0000

Maxim, your comment makes no sense to me. At all.

BTW, I am an Israeli citizen. And also BTW, I think my bank manager would fall on the floor laughing if he heard you call me ‘rich.’

Not that any of that matters, since this article is about a person who lives in Libya – which is what the comments should be about.

By: Maxim Reider

Maxim Reider — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:41:16 +0000

Lisa, “Ben Israel and his … nationalist Zionist friends” – while you are just a rich Canadian tourist (although extremely talented and a stunning beauty), enjoying sea vistas from your rented Jaffa apartment?

Guys, you live in the movie in this site.

By: Tahel Ilan

Tahel Ilan — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:56:51 +0000

Libya has oil (and also had WMD’s that they allegedly gave up).
The western wold therefore had/has an interest in staying on good terms with Kadhafi (not to mention his so-called cooperation with Europe on the immigration issue).
True, Libya shouldn’t have been sitting on the HRC, but hey- should the US be sitting there? The US is responsible for much greater human rights abuses statistically.

By: Ben Israel

Ben Israel — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:48:12 +0000

I have only admiration for what the Libyans are doing and I hope they succeed in getting rid of the tyrant and setting up a decent regime, which they deserve after so many decades of oppression.
My point is that everyone OUTSIDE Libya knew what kind of regime he had. Yet Qaddafi’s Libya was appointed to the UN Human Rights Commission. That sounds like a bad joke. Where was all the outrage then?
I’ll tell you where it was? It was politically incorrect to criticize Qaddafi then. The excuses were “he is a third worlder-he is an Arab-his country was a victim of European imperialism-we are in no position to critcize him, we believe in multi-culturalism so maybe the regime he set up is the best one for the people of Libya, he supports the Palestinians and confronts Israel, he is in the forefront of opposition to neo-colonialism…….etc, etc, etc”. You all know what I mean.

By: Tahel Ilan

Tahel Ilan — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:37:18 +0000

Ben Israel-
we’re proud of the libyans for standing up for themselves.
not everyone needs a decade long american military occupation in order to rid themselves of a dictator and his imperialist supporters.