Comments on: A Jew who feels shame about Israel’s actions

By: lester john

lester john — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:22:08 +0000

quot: "Many Diaspora Jews, myself included, remain ashamed…"

and that is why you are a diaspora jew, not only in presence in but in soul.

people like you invented the "stokholm sindrom" before it was detected and named.

and that is why you'll always be diaspora jew and like it is sais in the hagada of peshkh about the the "bad" son: if he were there (in egypt) he would not have been saved with the others.

By: Kill them all (but make sure they’re Arabs first) | Antony Loewenstein

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:33:01 +0000

[...] quote from his letter to the Sydney Morning Herald on 13 March: “[Robert Goot and David Knoll] portray the Palestinians as bloodthirsty terrorists out to [...]

By: Glenn Condell

Glenn Condell — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:19:26 +0000

Well said Ant, as usual, and bondiboy too.

By: bondiboy

bondiboy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:31:49 +0000

I was offended by their letter too. My (unpublished) contribution to the Herald went as follows:

David Knoll and Robert Goot (SMH, letters, 12/3/08) unfairly malign your correspondent Alan Ramsey, using the underhand tactic of suggesting that he is an anti Semite without actually spelling it out. Their letter has too many falsehoods to address here. Israel has withdrawn from Gaza? Only to strangle its economy, starve its people and inflict unbelievable misery. Israel a "thriving democracy"? Israeli Arabs (20% of the population) are legally discriminated against on many fronts and parties exist in the Knesset who advocate the permanent removal of Arab citizens from Israel – this is hardly democracy as we know it in Australia. The cream on the cake is the Aussie angle that attempts to link the legacy of the Anzacs with the eventual emergence of a Jewish state in Palestine.