Naomi Ragen is a prominent American-Israeli writer and playwright about to visit Melbourne for the writer’s festival. She is a typical, radical Zionist who believes that “terrorists” should be killed by the Jewish state. “We need to kill these people”, she told the Sydney Morning Herald today.
Her message of peace? No withdrawals from occupied, Palestinian territory, no prisoner swaps with the Arabs and presumably more settlements in the West Bank. In other words, the same, failed policies that Israel has pursued for its entire existence and achieved a status as one of the most loathed nations on earth. Quite an achievement in only 60 years.
Then, this paragraph is included in today’s lead article:
While never quite confessing to a desire for a debate with Antony Loewenstein, the co-founder of Independent Australian Jewish Voices and author of the polemical My Israel Question, she seems, despite herself, to regret the lost opportunity. “Bring it on. Those kind of people are easy. They say one lie after another. He’s a typical self-hating, ignorant Jew.”
I’ve never met Ragen nor communicated with her. Why my position on the Middle East is included is anybody’s guess, but her response is highly instructive. Zionists have used these smear tactics for decades, damning people, especially Jews, who dare challenge the Israeli state and its occupation policies. And who ends up looking profoundly insecure in the process?
Tragically, the mainstream Jewish Diaspora regards a person like Ragen as an intellectual and voice of reason. It’s an indication of how deluded the Jewish community has become that a woman who openly opposes ending the occupation and demonising the Arab population is admired. They truly have no idea how the wider community views such people. It’s the kind of militant Zionism that supports the Iraq war, bombing Iran, re-invading Gaza and never leaving the West Bank; a Zionism that is killing the Jewish state.
Yet further evidence of Zionist cluelessness.
Naomi Ragen’s hot-air claims andassertions is the usual bulldozing technique of the anti-paletsinian zionist. She, and others like her, are unwilling to work for peace and are the real terrorists- their words either fuel more killing or they themselves celebrate the killing of “their” side, but never do they initiate peace.
As can be seen with her shot at Lowenstein, for them it is everything war, even words.
Yeah, kill all the terrorists! The other side, those who drop cluster bombs on civilians – we’re with them. The SMH article started off trying to give the impression that Ragen was not the typical rabid Zionist, so I read on thinking, “oh, this could be refreshing…” I was quickly disappointed. Expect to read more of Ragen’s rhetoric in your Sydney Morning Herald, perhaps Rachael Cohn will find room for her on ABC Radio National’s “The Spirit of Things”, etc, etc.
” She is a typical, radical Zionist who believes that “terrorists” should be killed by the Jewish state. “We need to kill these people ”
These words of slander qualify as slander because the writer makes charges without bringing any proof. Such a statement only proves that the author has no merit. The spies that Moshe sent to examine the Land, they too employed slander and destroyed an entire generation in the process! I do not respect the stink of a fart and call it a vintage wine.
Why the heck are they still calling these folks Palestinians?
Palestine (which was only a rinky-dink town when Israel came about) has been gone longer than most ‘Palestinians’ have been alive. I’m sure only a handful remember ‘Palestine’.
They are and should be called, Westbankonians, since the new name of their country is called ‘West Bank’. This is no difference from other countries that have changed their names like many African countries, the former Yugoslavia, et al.
Why is it that this Palestinian-Israeli ‘conflict’ is always in the American news?
Palestine is dead – get over it!
“Palestine (which was only a rinky-dink town when Israel came about) has been gone longer than most ‘Palestinians’ have been alive. I’m sure only a handful remember ‘Palestine’.”
they remember Palestine in the same way that Jewish people remember Eretz Yisrael … but clearer because in living memory – not 3000 years ago.
also, could say to jewish people: “I’m sure only a handful remember ‘Holocaust’” because roughly the same time past. yes, true, but doesnt mean jewish decendants should forget holocaust. same for palestinians about the land where their families lived called “palestine” by everyone at that time.
You’d be entitled to respect people like Jason if they could mount a decent argument, but unfortunately they’re limited to offensive remarks that speak volumes about their own bias. What a time waster.
” She, and others like her, are unwilling to work for peace ”
This statement is rich. What does it mean, “work for peace”? An Arab woman blows herself up in a hotel on Passover, wiping out entire families. There crime: being Jewish and keeping the Passover. The Israeli government responds by building a fence/wall that has dramatically reduced this type of terrorism. The World Court condemns the Israeli response to terror and supports the Arab charges calling it a land grab.
Israel forcibly uproots over 5000 settlers from Gaza, a festering wound to this very day and remains unresolved! Terrorists in Gaza respond by firing 1000s of missiles into Israel. Israel responds by closing the borders to Gaza. The UN condemns Israel for its harsh response.
First and foremost, the UN is NOT a independent nation. Why is it included in the quartet? The Arab/Israeli conflict could resolve itself far easier if uninvolved nations and busy body idiots did not feel that only they possess the wisdom to solve other peoples problems … butt out.
” She is a typical, radical Zionist who believes that “terrorists” should be killed by the Jewish state. ”
Arabs that refuse to recognize the Jewish Right to Self Determination, and seek, plan, and attack Jews living within the borders of their own country, this behavior meets the definition “terrorist”. A chief function of the State centers around the obligation of protecting its citizens. But to Antony that’s a radical idea! In all honesty somebody is really nuts around here and I don’t think its Ms Ragen. So by a process of elemination tell me, who do you think is a kook?
Moshe, you are one sick pup. There was no such place as Israel until the illegal partition in 1948.]
And Jason, it is Israel that should get over it, they are aggressive barbarians.
Marilyn your so appropriately named. The Arch of Titus in Rome, you’ve probably never heard of the place, but why should a flat backer know of such things? Herod never existed, the Romans never occupied Middle Eastern countries, Cleopatra she’s just a myth of Hollywood. Girl stop sniffing coke wake up and smell the roses