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9 Responses to “Palestinians Swimming in an Israeli Sea”

1. DICKERSON3870 says:

   May 13, 2009 at 10:20 PM

   RE: “here’s Tobin completely missing the point: Julien Bousac has created a vision of a Palestinian state on the West Bank in which the Jews are literally under water.”

   MY COMMENT: “Commentary” magazine reminds me of the Heaven’s Gate cult. It invariably defies logic. Don’t the settlers always take the hilltops whereas the Palestinian villages are in the valleys? If one was obtuse enough to take the concept literally, wouldn’t the Palestinians be the ones under water? Oh, never mind. “Forget it Jake. It’s Chinatown.”

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2. DICKERSON3870 says:

   May 13, 2009 at 10:29 PM

   Thinking further about Mr. Tobin’s remarks, it occurs to me that General Tommy Franks might have been wrong about Doug Feith!

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   • Beth says:

     May 14, 2009 at 5:22 PM

     I think there are a number of people deserving of the “General Tommy Franks award.” Tobin is only one of them.

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3. Richard (not Silverstein) says:

   May 14, 2009 at 6:28 AM

   Under water? Can Jews swim?

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4. Donald Johnson says:

   May 15, 2009 at 7:43 AM

   Oops. The preceding post belonged in an earlier thread–I had given Julie the impression that I had written for the NYT Book Review. I’ll copy it here and post it there.

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5. JohnYorke says:

   May 15, 2009 at 4:42 PM

   Maps can be very useful things, especially when you’re lost. And when the human race gets lost in this big wide world, as it so often does, its map reading skills frequently leave much to be desired; it has to grope almost blindly back towards whatever path is deemed to be the right one. Needless to say, this is nearly always a painful process with many a fruitless detour along the way.

   Adherence by us all to a single common map, one more germane* to the matter under discussion, might make for a quicker and easier transit from ‘here’ to ‘there.’ But such a map must be adaptive, capable of charting a course ever onward and around whatever checks and difficulties can be expected on the journey.

   http://yorketowers.blogspot.com – * with apologies for the pun.

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6. Suzanne says:

   May 17, 2009 at 5:21 AM

   For him, the map represents Jews being thrown into the sea.

   Pathos or bathos?

   The settlement sea, one that Israeli’s were not “thrown” into, does represent a drowning.

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7. Julie says:

   May 17, 2009 at 7:25 AM

   Richard S – I love your blog. You have the most interesting posts. You do such a GREAT job!

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   • Richard Silverstein says:

     May 17, 2009 at 11:20 AM

     Thanks & glad to know you enjoy it. Tell your friends!!

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