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32 Responses to “Abitbol’s Gay Slur”

1. Richard Silverstein says:

   December 6, 2008 at 1:07 PM

   @mia: As hard as it may be to believe, I’m tired of running around & around about David Abitbol. So pls. feel free to post in other threads on other subjects but let this comment be the last on this particular dead horse subject.

   You find David Abitbol cute, so I’m not sure you’re the most objective judge of his work. But even if he has written sporadic sympathetic posts about an Arab here or there doesn’t detract fr. the fact that his views are simply hopeless as far as positing a path by which Israelis and Palestinians might ever live together in peace. As I’ve written before, he is an apologist for continued blood & mayhem despite the fact that he protests that he is a “liberal.” Defending targeted assassinations and bemoaning the fact that much as he’d like to he can’t see a way that Israel can end the Occupation as long as “there is no partner,” etc. etc. The same old liberal apologia for continuing the failed status quo.

   I’m simply not going to argue with you about who Abitbol has hurt or smeared or fought with; and whether someone is his bosom buddy or only dislikes him personally but not for political reasons. He has picked fights with numerous individuals, me being one. I know a bully when I see one, and he is one.

   And I return to one salient issue which you’ve neglected despite numerous times I’ve raised it. It is simply intellectually dishonest to accuse someone of holding a political position w/o providing a single shred of evidence to support the claim. I find it even more astonishing that you don’t find my views anti-Israel yet concede his right to level such a calumny against me.

   I’m also surprised that you take me to task for my descriptions of him while refusing to concede that those words came in response to the most childish insults first uttered by him. Nor have you credited the outrage I felt when he appropriated one of my images. Nor have you credited the fact that he allowed one of his blog authors to manufacture a statement attributed to me which I never said. That’s fine if it doesn’t bother you. But it does me. So I’d rather you not try to talk me out of the feelings I hold toward this individual.

   Hard as it may be to believe. There are other more important subjects in life than this man. So let’s get on with them.

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2. mia says:

   December 6, 2008 at 3:42 PM

   Fair enough!

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