Comments on: Turning the other cheek http://antonyloewenstein.com/2006/09/22/turning-the-other-cheek/ Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:48:56 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John Swanston http://antonyloewenstein.com/2006/09/22/turning-the-other-cheek/comment-page-1/#comment-13272 John Swanston Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:22:55 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/09/22/turning-the-other-cheek/#comment-13272 Taking a few steps back but staying with the response to your book, I was interested in how you felt the Late Line interview with Tony Jones went. Mr Lapkin was out of place. Tony Jones seemed at all time to show deference to him, to check with him. Yet at no time when Mr Lapkin, or others of the right wing commentariat from the Jewish community are interviewed is there another to check their story. It all seemed very patronising. ... so with the silly comment of "rookie Journalist" reported in this epistle. Taking a few steps back but staying with the response to your book, I was interested in how you felt the Late Line interview with Tony Jones went. Mr Lapkin was out of place. Tony Jones seemed at all time to show deference to him, to check with him. Yet at no time when Mr Lapkin, or others of the right wing commentariat from the Jewish community are interviewed is there another to check their story.
It all seemed very patronising. … so with the silly comment of “rookie Journalist” reported in this epistle.

]]> By: Craig Berkman http://antonyloewenstein.com/2006/09/22/turning-the-other-cheek/comment-page-1/#comment-13262 Craig Berkman Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:35:55 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/09/22/turning-the-other-cheek/#comment-13262 Antony, Just finished your book... cover-to-cover which is a bit unusual for my short attention span... and found it to be an excellent approach to a conflict which none of us really believes will ever see a solution!! I missed your appearances in Brisbane but look forward to meeting you at some future time. I thought one of the most significant aspects of your work was the fact that most of what you wrote was not your personal opinions but rather a compilation of many opinions and works from BOTH sides of the argument. It was disappointing to read that you were prevented from going into Gaza. I have been there many times as a TV news cameraman and I just love going there. Hopefully you will visit one day. You'll be shocked by what you see when you get there. I was working in Israel during disengagement. It was an appalling time for everyone. I could feel for the pain of families forced to move after decades in the settlement bloc (many young people had known no other home) but I believed they never should have been there in the first place. More later. Keep up the good work. Craig Berkman Antony,

Just finished your book… cover-to-cover which is a bit unusual for my short attention span… and found it to be an excellent approach to a conflict which none of us really believes will ever see a solution!! I missed your appearances in Brisbane but look forward to meeting you at some future time.

I thought one of the most significant aspects of your work was the fact that most of what you wrote was not your personal opinions but rather a compilation of many opinions and works from BOTH sides of the argument.

It was disappointing to read that you were prevented from going into Gaza. I have been there many times as a TV news cameraman and I just love going there. Hopefully you will visit one day. You’ll be shocked by what you see when you get there.

I was working in Israel during disengagement. It was an appalling time for everyone. I could feel for the pain of families forced to move after decades in the settlement bloc (many young people had known no other home) but I believed they never should have been there in the first place. More later.

Keep up the good work.

Craig Berkman

]]> By: John Swanston http://antonyloewenstein.com/2006/09/22/turning-the-other-cheek/comment-page-1/#comment-13258 John Swanston Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:40:43 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/09/22/turning-the-other-cheek/#comment-13258 Thank you for coming to Brisbane - I attended the said gathering and appreciated three members of the Jewish family could speak with civil tongues about this topic. It has seemed to me that tying the existence of the state of Israel to the holocaust involves the tragic transference of the guilt of Europe onto the Palestinians. Not one Palestinian sent a Jew to their death in Europe. Nor was any Palestinian involved in the thousand plus years of progroms in Europe. Yet Golda Meir treated that as non persons. The rabbi at the funeral of the Jewish terrorist who killed Muslims at prayer in a mosque could say - a million palestinians are not worth the fingernail of a Jew. It doesn't make sense. If he had said a million Germans or a million europeans, one could understand - even though it has a bad taste about it. I trust you received some encouragement from you trip to Brisbane to continue with your voice being heard - for the sake of Israel and for the sake of justice for the Palestinian. As a Christian, I recognise that I must needs be extremely cautious in what I say or write about Israel given what my co-religionists have done to Jews. But I do know I must address the Zionists within "my Chirstian family" who have, particularly in the US and to a lesser extent in Australia, influenced the political climate here. The way that so many treated Hanan Ashrawi when she came to Australia is indicative of this. Thank you for coming to Brisbane – I attended the said gathering and appreciated three members of the Jewish family could speak with civil tongues about this topic. It has seemed to me that tying the existence of the state of Israel to the holocaust involves the tragic transference of the guilt of Europe onto the Palestinians. Not one Palestinian sent a Jew to their death in Europe. Nor was any Palestinian involved in the thousand plus years of progroms in Europe. Yet Golda Meir treated that as non persons. The rabbi at the funeral of the Jewish terrorist who killed Muslims at prayer in a mosque could say – a million palestinians are not worth the fingernail of a Jew. It doesn’t make sense. If he had said a million Germans or a million europeans, one could understand – even though it has a bad taste about it.
I trust you received some encouragement from you trip to Brisbane to continue with your voice being heard – for the sake of Israel and for the sake of justice for the Palestinian.

As a Christian, I recognise that I must needs be extremely cautious in what I say or write about Israel given what my co-religionists have done to Jews. But I do know I must address the Zionists within “my Chirstian family” who have, particularly in the US and to a lesser extent in Australia, influenced the political climate here. The way that so many treated Hanan Ashrawi when she came to Australia is indicative of this.

]]> By: Antony Loewenstein http://antonyloewenstein.com/2006/09/22/turning-the-other-cheek/comment-page-1/#comment-13243 Antony Loewenstein Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:52:05 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/09/22/turning-the-other-cheek/#comment-13243 Thanks Michael, The response to the book thus far suggests that many people are really ready to challenge the Zionist agenda. As for journos and editors, well, we'll be keeping the pressure up. Thanks Michael,
The response to the book thus far suggests that many people are really ready to challenge the Zionist agenda. As for journos and editors, well, we’ll be keeping the pressure up.

]]> By: Michael http://antonyloewenstein.com/2006/09/22/turning-the-other-cheek/comment-page-1/#comment-13242 Michael Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:49:41 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/09/22/turning-the-other-cheek/#comment-13242 Just finished reading your book Antony. Well done. Having read a lot, it was a refreshing change to see someone write on the 'media conflict' over Israel-Palestine from an Australian perspective. It wasn't great to see just how parlous the state of debate is here, but it's a welcome prod by reality for those who want our media to provide a more open, informative and challenging take on the conflict. At least, that is what I hope your book may stimulate. It would be interesting to monitor news/opinion output over the coming year and see if there was any discernable change in coverage. Congrats. Just finished reading your book Antony. Well done.

Having read a lot, it was a refreshing change to see someone write on the ‘media conflict’ over Israel-Palestine from an Australian perspective. It wasn’t great to see just how parlous the state of debate is here, but it’s a welcome prod by reality for those who want our media to provide a more open, informative and challenging take on the conflict. At least, that is what I hope your book may stimulate. It would be interesting to monitor news/opinion output over the coming year and see if there was any discernable change in coverage.

Congrats.

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