Your commentary would make more sense if I had written ‘the former’ above instead of ‘the latter’, yes?

Keep fighting the good fight. Your screechy bonehead opponents occupy a different
moral universe than you do. I think some of these groups who need to lambast you feel more frantic and verklempt than they used to and this probably augments their hysterical denunciations. They probably know deep down their propaganda is growing stale and the tide of public opinion is slowly but surely shifting when it comes to foreign policy attitudes, etc. (though not, alas, the disposition of our power elites), and they’re doing what they can to keep our Warfare State with its little Middle Eastern Sparta tag-along churning away. I’ll chuck you in with Jimmy Carter as a somewhat beseiged (but pleasingly stoical) good guy.

Warren

You are perfectly right to take me to task for forgetting my commitment to Ami. It was a mistake. But which is worse: quoting four rather innocuous lines of an e mail or allowing Mort Klein to smear Desmond Tutu as an anti-Semite & not apologizing or properly correcting the mistake & then suggesting that I was a liar and “smeared” JTA because I only noted what was already clear to almost everyone (except JTA)–that they hadn’t done the decent thing?

Dick – You shouldn’t have breached Eden’s trust like that. How are others supposed to trust you won’t make the same mistake with them?

Are you in the habit of addressing people you don’t know in demeaning terms? You should be happy you have concealed your own name & used a fake e mail address so I can’t mangle your own first name.

If quoting Ami Eden in a blog post here is the worst error I ever make in this blog then I’ll still be able to sleep at night. People who trust me will go on doing so. And people like Ami who don’t will continue not to. Anyway, what really ticks Ami off is not so much the breach of journalistic etiquette as the severity of my criticisms of JTA. Focussing obsessively on quoting him here is a way to attempt to demean the value of my critique of the agency’s journalism. You’ll notice that so far he has not commented here to challenge the content of my claims. Nor did he ever do so in any of his e mails despite my repeated request that he do so.

I note that even today Ami’s tut-tutting over this:

Thanks for repaying my trust in man.

I quoted four lines from his e mail & thereby destroyed his ability ever to trust his fellow man again. I’m humbled by the power he’s granted me.

The statement you quote from the Dan Goldberg;s report is 100 per cent correct.

I stand corrected. I’ve edited the text to reflect your correction.

But it would’ve been nice for Goldberg to have known that Roxon was Jewish since if you knew many other Australians probably knew as well. But it’s certainly nowhere as major an journalistic issue as the other ones I raised above.