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	<title>Comments on: N.Y. Times Profiles Menachem Froman</title>
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		<title>By: Richard Silverstein</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Give it a rest would ya.  I&#039;ve got other things to do w. my life than sit at the keyboard &amp; wait for yr ever so important comments to come in &amp; approve them.  Say something interesting &amp; worthwhile (even if it disagrees w. me) &amp; yr comments will be approved quicker.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Give it a rest would ya.  I&#8217;ve got other things to do w. my life than sit at the keyboard &amp; wait for yr ever so important comments to come in &amp; approve them.  Say something interesting &amp; worthwhile (even if it disagrees w. me) &amp; yr comments will be approved quicker.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Silverstein</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No, it&#039;s a historical comparison.  You wish to focus attention solely on alleged mistreatment of Jews by Arabs which you btw have hardly provided any proof of &amp; I &amp; others here have pointed out that Jews were actually hunted down &amp; exterminated by various Christian nations.  The comparison of treatment is like night &amp; day.  Yet you still, propagandist that you are, want to talk about one thing alone.  I&#039;m pointing out that you&#039;re a monomaniacal propagandist.

6 million Jews were killed by a Christian nation (&amp; this is but one of many that have made similar attempts).  How many have been killed by Muslim nations?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, it&#8217;s a historical comparison.  You wish to focus attention solely on alleged mistreatment of Jews by Arabs which you btw have hardly provided any proof of &#038; I &#038; others here have pointed out that Jews were actually hunted down &#038; exterminated by various Christian nations.  The comparison of treatment is like night &#038; day.  Yet you still, propagandist that you are, want to talk about one thing alone.  I&#8217;m pointing out that you&#8217;re a monomaniacal propagandist.</p>
<p>6 million Jews were killed by a Christian nation (&#038; this is but one of many that have made similar attempts).  How many have been killed by Muslim nations?</p>
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		<title>By: Emma Goldman-Lazarus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Emma Goldman-Lazarus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>On second thought never mind.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On second thought never mind.</p>
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		<title>By: Emma Goldman-Lazarus</title>
		<link>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/12/06/ny-times-profiles-menachem-froman/comment-page-1/#comment-118318</link>
		<dc:creator>Emma Goldman-Lazarus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Really?  You&#039;re gonna call me &quot; profoundly ignorant &quot; and then refuse to publish my rebuttal?  How mature.

At least have the decency to delete your own post, which, as I pointed out in my unpublished response, has nothing whatever to do with what I originally wrote.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Really?  You&#8217;re gonna call me &#8221; profoundly ignorant &#8221; and then refuse to publish my rebuttal?  How mature.</p>
<p>At least have the decency to delete your own post, which, as I pointed out in my unpublished response, has nothing whatever to do with what I originally wrote.</p>
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		<title>By: Emma Goldman-Lazarus</title>
		<link>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/12/06/ny-times-profiles-menachem-froman/comment-page-1/#comment-118286</link>
		<dc:creator>Emma Goldman-Lazarus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Are you serious?  

I didn&#039;t say a word about which was worse -- Jewish life in the Christian world or Jewish life in the Muslim world.  My only point was that this very comparison is irrelevant and to bring it up amounts to changing the subject.

And yet that&#039;s exactly what you proceeded to do.  Again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you serious?  </p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t say a word about which was worse &#8212; Jewish life in the Christian world or Jewish life in the Muslim world.  My only point was that this very comparison is irrelevant and to bring it up amounts to changing the subject.</p>
<p>And yet that&#8217;s exactly what you proceeded to do.  Again.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Silverstein</title>
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		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You are profoundly ignorant of Jewish history.  And it shows.  Jews have lived for centuries in majority Muslim countries in relative peace &amp; prosperity.  Life was not perfect, but nor was it as bad as living through a Christian Crusade if you could.

This is the truth &amp; any medieval or modern Jewish historian will tell you the same.  In this century, things became much more complicated because Zionism made Arab Jews seem like 5th columnists in their respective societies.  Even with that, aside from overt hostility in places like Iran and Syria &amp; a few other places, there has been relatively little Jew hatred in other Arab countries.  The king of Morroco begged the country&#039;s Jews not to leave, but they did anyway.  Those Jews who stayed have been welcome and led ordinary lives.  To this day, there are still Jews in Iran and other Arab countries.  Their lives may not be sweetness and light, but many have the opportunity to go but don&#039;t.

Now, if you wish to argue that the multiple Crusades during which Jews were murdered in their tens of thousands, the Spanish Inquisition (Jews murdered &amp; forced into conversion by the tens of thousands), the Cossack pogroms (ditto), Russian blood libel &amp; all the other Christian fomented violence against Jews was less intense &amp; savage than Muslim hostility against Jews, you&#039;re welcome to try. But why bother?  You&#039;d only show yrself to be a pathetic anti-Muslim propagandist.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are profoundly ignorant of Jewish history.  And it shows.  Jews have lived for centuries in majority Muslim countries in relative peace &amp; prosperity.  Life was not perfect, but nor was it as bad as living through a Christian Crusade if you could.</p>
<p>This is the truth &amp; any medieval or modern Jewish historian will tell you the same.  In this century, things became much more complicated because Zionism made Arab Jews seem like 5th columnists in their respective societies.  Even with that, aside from overt hostility in places like Iran and Syria &amp; a few other places, there has been relatively little Jew hatred in other Arab countries.  The king of Morroco begged the country&#8217;s Jews not to leave, but they did anyway.  Those Jews who stayed have been welcome and led ordinary lives.  To this day, there are still Jews in Iran and other Arab countries.  Their lives may not be sweetness and light, but many have the opportunity to go but don&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Now, if you wish to argue that the multiple Crusades during which Jews were murdered in their tens of thousands, the Spanish Inquisition (Jews murdered &amp; forced into conversion by the tens of thousands), the Cossack pogroms (ditto), Russian blood libel &amp; all the other Christian fomented violence against Jews was less intense &amp; savage than Muslim hostility against Jews, you&#8217;re welcome to try. But why bother?  You&#8217;d only show yrself to be a pathetic anti-Muslim propagandist.</p>
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		<title>By: Emma Goldman-Lazarus</title>
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		<dc:creator>Emma Goldman-Lazarus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;sure-Jews-were-presecuted-in-Arab-and-Muslim-countries-but-they-were-MORE-bitterly-persecuted-in-Christian-countries&quot; is like the left-wing equivalent of &quot;sure-Israel-abuses-Palestinians-but-the-neighboring-Arab-countries-do-it-worse.&quot;  

Both are irrelevant comparisons.  Seeking to downplay the shoddy treatment that Jews experienced at the hands of their Muslim and Arab neighbors by asserting that they had it worse in Christian countries = merely changing the subject.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;sure-Jews-were-presecuted-in-Arab-and-Muslim-countries-but-they-were-MORE-bitterly-persecuted-in-Christian-countries&#8221; is like the left-wing equivalent of &#8220;sure-Israel-abuses-Palestinians-but-the-neighboring-Arab-countries-do-it-worse.&#8221;  </p>
<p>Both are irrelevant comparisons.  Seeking to downplay the shoddy treatment that Jews experienced at the hands of their Muslim and Arab neighbors by asserting that they had it worse in Christian countries = merely changing the subject.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard Silverstein</title>
		<link>http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/12/06/ny-times-profiles-menachem-froman/comment-page-1/#comment-104619</link>
		<dc:creator>Richard Silverstein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@tzvee: &quot;Blow it all away?&quot;  Then I guess the NY Times blew over 100 yrs. of its own journalistic credibility away by featuring Froman in a profile.  Not to mention Haaretz, Jerusalem Post, Tikkun Magazine and many others which have done the same.  Somehow I think my credibility remains intact though perhaps it&#039;s damaged in yr view.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@tzvee: &#8220;Blow it all away?&#8221;  Then I guess the NY Times blew over 100 yrs. of its own journalistic credibility away by featuring Froman in a profile.  Not to mention Haaretz, Jerusalem Post, Tikkun Magazine and many others which have done the same.  Somehow I think my credibility remains intact though perhaps it&#8217;s damaged in yr view.</p>
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