Rafi said:
What have we learned from all this, kids?

Criticism of Israeli politics by progressives/liberals = anti-semitism (even if made by people of Jewish ethnicity themselves, such as Noam Chomsky).

Proclaiming Jews to be imperfected Christians and believing them to be bound for Hell = not at all anti-semitic, just as long as they support Israel (even if only because of Apocalyptic fantasies).

All right, tell me how you aren't stereotyping here? You're taking the words on ONE Isreali (Wendy), who argued that the Christian-Right doesn't piss her off because, no matters the rhetoric or reasons behind it, they support her country, and then extrapolating that to ALL Isrealies

Actually, what you seem to be doing, is taking her words verbatum as an expression shared by ALL Isrealis, and then taking the statements of another set of Isrealis and saying that those are ALSO shared by all Isrealis in order to set up a situation that would appear to be hypocritical.

niiiiiiice.

The truth of the matter is that Coulter's statements were in reference to Jewish people. As a result, it seems to me, that you really don't have much of a right to browbeat Wendy for NOT finding them anti-semetic. We can't exactly be dictating to other people what they should, and should not, find offensive.

Just my .3 cents.

I figured he was simply criticizing Wendy's comments...but what do I know?

I took his comments about "liberals criticising isreal" = bad thing to be referencing some of the uproar in the Jewish-American and Isreali communities about it and not tied directly into something Wendy had said (at least, I hadn't read a comment by her stating that).
If I was wrong, and she did say something along those lines, I retract the statement and apologize. Sorry about that; I sometimes miss things and then end up with egg all over my face

emotedcreations

Germany

July 2006

OCT 15, 2007 10:51 PM

DannyDMc said:

emotedcreations said:
^^^^^^^^^pretty much.... Rafi is pretty point on for the most part, and I'd definitely have to give him the benefit of the doubt on this one. Not to mention most of DannyDMC's comments are fucking off the wall.

Eh? How are most of my posts off the wall? I generally don't go out of my way to gain that effect. An odd sense of humor creeps in from time to time but, thats mostly because I write later at night (when, I suppose, I really shouldn't)

*shrugs*

Sorry, I wasn't being all that serious. I generally, really for the most part, appreciate your comments. Despite you being a bad English teacher!

zarth

Seattle, WA

December 2004

OCT 15, 2007 11:05 PM

DannyDMc said:
I took his comments about "liberals criticising isreal" = bad thing to be referencing some of the uproar in the Jewish-American and Isreali communities about it and not tied directly into something Wendy had said (at least, I hadn't read a comment by her stating that).
If I was wrong, and she did say something along those lines, I retract the statement and apologize. Sorry about that; I sometimes miss things and then end up with egg all over my face

Try saying something unsupportive about the Israeli settlement policy or some IDF action sometime while Wendy's around. You'll see an uproar, alright. That's what he was referencing.