Comments on: Full Letter to the Boston Review http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102 “Jews don’t fight!” mutters a Red Army soldier. “These Jews do!” Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:30:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: FILM REVIEW: PASTORAL RESISTANCE IN ‘THIS PALESTINIAN LIFE’ « Shoah http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102&cpage=1#comment-3848 FILM REVIEW: PASTORAL RESISTANCE IN ‘THIS PALESTINIAN LIFE’ « Shoah Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:45:46 +0000 http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102#comment-3848 [...] Full Letter to the Boston Review To the Boston Review: I read Claudio Lomnitz’s and Rafael… [...] […] Full Letter to the Boston Review To the Boston Review: I read Claudio Lomnitz’s and Rafael… […]

]]> By: Jewbonic http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102&cpage=1#comment-1766 Jewbonic Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:41:30 +0000 http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102#comment-1766 OK, and I think that's not enough information to arrive at the type of conclusions you're arriving at. Where I stand on Chavez's supposed anti-Semitism should be very clear though. OK, and I think that’s not enough information to arrive at the type of conclusions you’re arriving at. Where I stand on Chavez’s supposed anti-Semitism should be very clear though.

]]> By: Kepler http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102&cpage=1#comment-1761 Kepler Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:13:58 +0000 http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102#comment-1761 I wrote already what that picture is saying: "Por la paz en el medio oriente. No al sionismo-terrorismo" "11 de septiembre" I wrote already what that picture is saying:
“Por la paz en el medio oriente. No al sionismo-terrorismo“
“11 de septiembre”

]]> By: Jewbonic http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102&cpage=1#comment-1746 Jewbonic Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:25:36 +0000 http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102#comment-1746 I have no idea what the government is saying because that picture is too blurry to read. If you want to discuss another piece of evidence [Spanish is fine and you don't need to translate] please link to it. Of course I think the government of Venezuela [an incoherent amalgam, anyway but I assume you mean Chavez] thinks that the 9/11/01 attacks were the acts of Arab fundamentalists. But if he didn't, so what? Neither does David Ray Griffin. Hardly makes the guy an anti-Semite. I have no idea what the government is saying because that picture is too blurry to read. If you want to discuss another piece of evidence [Spanish is fine and you don’t need to translate] please link to it.
Of course I think the government of Venezuela [an incoherent amalgam, anyway but I assume you mean Chavez] thinks that the 9/11/01 attacks were the acts of Arab fundamentalists. But if he didn’t, so what? Neither does David Ray Griffin. Hardly makes the guy an anti-Semite.

]]> By: Jewbonic http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102&cpage=1#comment-1744 Jewbonic Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:21:26 +0000 http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102#comment-1744 Anyway, (1) they are not suggesting that, I don't think. They aren't stupid. (2) I don't think they're totally denying Arab responsibility; where do you get that? (3) This is not the same as saying that Islami/ism is the cause of Sept. 11, because "Islam" is not an ideology corporealized in a single state-apparatus in the same way that Zionism is. "Zionism" comes to be a short-hand for Israeli policy, and while intellectuals correctly maintain distinctions between the two the conflation makes a sort of sense. "Islam" would be short-hand for...Muslims. So it's really just a way of being bigoted. I don't think "Zionism" is generally short-hand for Jews, although it doubtless is in some circles. (4) Stop calling me Jewbonic. It's not like you don't know what my name is. Anyway, (1) they are not suggesting that, I don’t think. They aren’t stupid. (2) I don’t think they’re totally denying Arab responsibility; where do you get that? (3) This is not the same as saying that Islami/ism is the cause of Sept. 11, because “Islam” is not an ideology corporealized in a single state-apparatus in the same way that Zionism is. “Zionism” comes to be a short-hand for Israeli policy, and while intellectuals correctly maintain distinctions between the two the conflation makes a sort of sense. “Islam” would be short-hand for…Muslims. So it’s really just a way of being bigoted. I don’t think “Zionism” is generally short-hand for Jews, although it doubtless is in some circles.
(4) Stop calling me Jewbonic. It’s not like you don’t know what my name is.

]]> By: Kepler http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102&cpage=1#comment-1743 Kepler Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:18:53 +0000 http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102#comment-1743 Jewbonic, you have asked now your share of questions. Now YOU answer and don't pretend not to understand anything. Do you think the government of Venezuela is saying the terrorist attacks of September 11 is at least in part the terrorist act of Arab fundamentalists? Now I am going to see how honest you are. Please, don't come with the explanations about what Semitic, anti-Semitic, Jew, Zionist are. I think I know at least as well as you about those differences. We are talking here about what the government of Venezuela is implying. Jewbonic, you have asked now your share of questions. Now YOU answer and don’t pretend not to understand anything.

Do you think the government of Venezuela is saying the terrorist attacks of September 11 is at least in part the terrorist act of Arab fundamentalists?

Now I am going to see how honest you are.
Please, don’t come with the explanations about what Semitic, anti-Semitic, Jew, Zionist are. I think I know at least as well as you about those differences. We are talking here about what the government of Venezuela is implying.

]]> By: Jewbonic http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102&cpage=1#comment-1742 Jewbonic Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:07:11 +0000 http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102#comment-1742 And what follows it that the government is anti-Semitic? And what follows it that the government is anti-Semitic?

]]> By: Kepler http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102&cpage=1#comment-1738 Kepler Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:45:33 +0000 http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102#comment-1738 Jewbonics, it is hard to believe you don't understand. Independently of what you or I think, they are suggesting it was the "Zionist" alone. In any case: they are definitely saying it was NOT the Arabs' responsibility, not one bit. Had they wanted to be nuanced and say the conflict and the violence has a complex origin, they would not have put just that alone and that is what they always put. That is exactly the same as if the US government and any other government would be stating that Islam (or Islamism, not a big difference is the eyes of most, whatever we may discuss in "intellectual" circles) is the cause of 11 of September and Islam alone. Jewbonics, it is hard to believe you don’t understand.

Independently of what you or I think, they are suggesting it was the “Zionist” alone.
In any case: they are definitely saying it was NOT the Arabs’ responsibility, not one bit.
Had they wanted to be nuanced and say the conflict and the violence has a complex origin, they would not have put just that alone and that is what they always put. That is exactly the same as if
the US government and any other government would be stating that Islam (or Islamism, not a big difference is the eyes of most, whatever we may discuss in “intellectual” circles) is the cause of 11 of September and Islam alone.

]]> By: Jewbonic http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102&cpage=1#comment-1735 Jewbonic Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:04:40 +0000 http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102#comment-1735 First, what do </i>you</i> think the roots of the September 11 attacks were? Second, if the government thinks Israeli policy is at the roots of September 11, what do <i>you</i> think that implies? The statement is either incorrect, partially correct, or correct. I don't understand what you mean to suggest.</i> First, what do you think the roots of the September 11 attacks were? Second, if the government thinks Israeli policy is at the roots of September 11, what do you think that implies? The statement is either incorrect, partially correct, or correct. I don’t understand what you mean to suggest.

]]> By: Kepler http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102&cpage=1#comment-1734 Kepler Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:46:39 +0000 http://www.maxajl.com/?p=2102#comment-1734 Jewbonic, I put a picture of an official poster from the Venezuelan government. I just translated what they say. They are basically saying 11 Sept. is product of Zionist terrorism. Now what do you honestly think that implies (for them)? Jewbonic,
I put a picture of an official poster from the Venezuelan government. I just translated what they say. They are basically saying 11 Sept. is product of Zionist terrorism. Now what do you honestly think that implies (for them)?

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