tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873160920540394292.post1740546827063430283..comments2023-10-31T00:30:11.189+11:00Comments on The Bureau of Counterpropaganda: No successor of RabinErnie Halfdramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06463362099448607727noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873160920540394292.post-91381553188591915502007-11-06T17:19:00.000+11:002007-11-06T17:19:00.000+11:00Welcome back, christian, and thanks for the stroke...Welcome back, christian, and thanks for the stroke. I really value compliments from people like you, who think things through.<BR/><BR/>On a trivial level, I’m sure it’s the case that everybody keeps learning new things throughout their life, barring some illness that affects our memory. But I assure you I know people who go to some lengths to avoid taking in any new information, especially when it comes to Israel and cherished Zionist myths.Ernie Halfdramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06463362099448607727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873160920540394292.post-31167327377068086972007-11-06T12:59:00.000+11:002007-11-06T12:59:00.000+11:00Now I forgot to actually comment on the post itsel...Now I forgot to actually comment on the post itself, which is a very good and well-thought out one as usual. I have to admit that growing up in Germany, I used to be broadly supportive of Israel, admired Rabin, and had high hopes for that wretched Oslo process.<BR/><BR/>Shows you that we never stop learning...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873160920540394292.post-77771005398539527402007-11-06T12:52:00.000+11:002007-11-06T12:52:00.000+11:00I love the complaint that "your view is one-sided....I love the complaint that "your view is one-sided." Another one of those "common-sense" things that, on closer inspection, turn out to be completely meaningless - based on the absurd axiom that the rulers are not a "side" at all, but somehow above it all. And we are the ones getting accused of employing slogans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873160920540394292.post-41599005854385106192007-11-06T06:16:00.000+11:002007-11-06T06:16:00.000+11:00It’s very gracious of you to grant me permission t...It’s very gracious of you to grant me permission to delete your comment from my blog, but I’m experimenting with unmoderated comments and will tolerate trolls for the time being. Provided you refrain from trying to advertise anything here, I may let your comments stand. In your next comment, perhaps you’d care to elucidate what distinguishes you from a troll?<BR/><BR/>Although you don’t even make a pretense of offering an argument or even making a point, I am the one who’s supposed to be pathetic? It is, however, quite clear from your ‘Boo hoo’ over all the unkindness, that you have adopted a position along the lines of whatever the Hasbara establishment decrees good for the Jews, or good for Israel, which amounts too the same thing in their little anti-Semitic minds, is not to be assessed in accordance with the norms of human or class solidarity. In other words, tribalism trumps humanism and the struggle for human liberation. May your crocodile tears short out your cpu!<BR/><BR/>Under the circumstances, coming from a position so far out to the right that only the tenuous grip of one fingernail prevents you from falling off the political spectrum, you’re in a precarious position to offer opinions on who or what does or does not give leftism a bad name. But then, these comical pretensions are one of the things Zionists are famous for.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, it’s a real pleasure to disgust you, Elad. May you spew your guts all over your keyboard.<BR/><BR/>Y’all come back now.Ernie Halfdramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06463362099448607727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5873160920540394292.post-62685531928245570842007-11-06T03:23:00.000+11:002007-11-06T03:23:00.000+11:00No troll here, but this is definitely going to be ...No troll here, but this is definitely going to be a flame. Delete it if you like.<BR/><BR/>You people are really pathetic. Get off your high horse. Your view is so one-sided, so streamlined and blind, that it really causes me to see how the sane section of the right wing can claim that leftist are idealists and unreasonable. You give a bad name to leftism. You disgust me.<BR/><BR/>Go on all you want about how evil everyone is, and about how unjust the world is. Yes, the Jewish state divides the Arabs, and that causes "otherness" and "segregation" and is really unkind. Boo hoo.<BR/><BR/>Instead of concentrating on speaking to the public, on trying to moderate, you give your ridiculous extreme opinions, and feel morally superior.<BR/><BR/>You disgust me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com