tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13722343.post116309697894865434..comments2023-10-29T14:44:07.458+00:00Comments on The Dossing Times: Anti-Semitism is the Cool racismSimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13851386083389876851noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13722343.post-1163710560608616112006-11-16T20:56:00.000+00:002006-11-16T20:56:00.000+00:00First, if you wouldn't mind me pointing this out, ...First, if you wouldn't mind me pointing this out, it's Darfur, not Dafur. It's Fur, the land of the Dar people. <BR/><BR/>Secondly, as already said, all the people in the Middle-Eastern conflict are Semitic. Middle-Eastern Jews and Arabs. Obviously, Russian and German Jews are not semitic, by definition. <BR/><BR/>Third, a huge number of semitic people - the Palestinians - were violently dispossessed when Israel was created, and their grandchildren are at the heart of the present conflict. <BR/><BR/>You must have regard to this if you want to talk about Israel, Lebanon and Palestine. Otherwise you're not addressing the issue. I'd go a step further and say that unless you take the whole history into account, you're only engaging in a mirror image of the behaviour you condemn on the other side.Bock the Robberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06670303189589399025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13722343.post-1163158637307714572006-11-10T11:37:00.000+00:002006-11-10T11:37:00.000+00:00The problem with the old more people die in Dafur ...The problem with the old more people die in Dafur than in Palestine or Lebanon is that nobody knows what are you trying to say ?? Is it Their deaths don't matter forget them ? Everyone in the world is condeming the Killings in Dafur, There have been numerous UN meetings on it and Thosands more protests but they dont get the headlines because nobody is supporting the killings from the other side. The US backs Isreal policy of retaliation and collective punishment against the civilian populations of both Palestine and Lebanon. Its against international law and just because more people get killed in Dafur does not make it any less wrong.<BR/><BR/>PS: over one million civilians were displaced in Lebanon during the war and 350,000 made homeless. Not small numbers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13722343.post-1163103024485883412006-11-09T20:10:00.000+00:002006-11-09T20:10:00.000+00:00First of all, what Irish arms companies are there?...First of all, what Irish arms companies are there? <BR/><BR/>"In the recent conflict in Lebanon about 1000 people died. In Dafur it is estimated that 400,000 people have died. Lets look at those figures again. Dafur 400,000. Lebanon 1000. So for every person that died in Lebanon 400 died in Dafur. Now surely that means the Dafur should get 400 times the coverage, 400 times the protests, 400 times the number of vigils, 400 times the student societies. Where is the Dafur Solidarity campaign?"<BR/><BR/>What I find interesting here is that you explain the lack of coverage for Dafur in comparison to Palestine as the result of ant-semitism, and not the fact that people simply value the lives of Africans less than Palestinians.<BR/><BR/>"Why listen to someone when you can be a robotic brain-dead follower spotting out sound bits of moronic hate speech. Why instead of listening to someone bring someone of the opposing view like lets say Ibrahim El Moussaoui head of political programming at Hezbollah’s television station Al Manar"<BR/><BR/>Ian Paisley, the man who considers the IRA to be the military wing of the RCC, the man who thinks that the EU is a papal plot, the man who thinks that line dancing is evil and the amn who thinks that Catholics are vermin might just do a deal that leads to lasting peace in the North. Alas, you have to talk to idiots sometimes.<BR/><BR/>And Anti-semitism is a really loaded term that is best avoided. Even the likes of Galloway has nothing against Jewish people. Heck what do you call the Jewish people who oppose the Zionist agenda? <BR/><BR/>The reason that Palestine gets far more attention than anything else is because of America. Where America goes, the cameras follow.Niallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16627407461606438846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13722343.post-1163099789874451132006-11-09T19:16:00.000+00:002006-11-09T19:16:00.000+00:00And accusing people who oppose Israeli terrorism a...And accusing people who oppose Israeli terrorism against the Palestinian people of being anti-semites is the old way of trying to stifle debate about the evils of that morally bankrupt entity.<BR/>Palestinians are semites, truer semites in fact that the Russian emigres populating Israeli suburbs and settlements.<BR/>The biggest anti-semitic organisation on the planet is in fact the IDF.JC Skinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07591722111393071007noreply@blogger.com