Comments on: Was ‘Hijacked’ Russian Ship Intercepted by Mossad, Carrying Missiles to Iran?

By: Shirin

Shirin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:21:36 +0000

I, for one, care a great deal less about `Arafat’s negative reputation abroad, which was due in large measure to the usual hasbara. What I do care about is that he repeatedly sold out the Palestinians, Palestinian rights, and Palestinian goals. He also made some serious errors, but more than that he put his self-interest above the interests of the Palestinian people when it counted most.

By: emman

emman — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:05:29 +0000

http://palestinethinktank.com/2009/09/06/kawther-salam-palestinian-organs-for-sale-and-experiments/

By: William Smart

William Smart — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:20:21 +0000

Brian – Arafat has a terrible reputation abroad and with good reason. You damage the cause of Palestinians by reminding us of him. Not all his claims are rubbish, but the one on the 10 Agora coin is an obvious case of his failing to check anything whatsoever.

Arafat himself probably had ample money to have the organ thing investigated by serious international pathologists – he failed to do – hence, the ball has been dropped.

It must be obvious that Palestinians have made serious mistakes in the court of world opinion – you seem determined they shoot themselves in the foot yet again over this one.

By: William Smart

William Smart — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:58:17 +0000

Brian – I’m quite sure that the Palestinians are buoyed up by hearing that these allegations are getting an airing – however, they do themselves no good with it.

The Palestinians often do themselves severe injury in western eyes, eg when Hamas defends the ICC indicted President of Sudan over the genocide of Darfur. We who are immersed in western style ways of thinking and prosecuting need to be delivering real help to the Palestinians, which includes warning them they must have good solid evidence before coming out with allegations, particularly ones like this.

By: William Smart

William Smart — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:50:33 +0000

Brian – Palestinians are cursed with supporters who (even in the west) think that Bush ordered 911 and 4,000 Jews avoided going to work at the WTC that day.

Eastern supporters of the Palestinians are often even more unpleasantly gullible, denying the Holocaust, accepting the “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, blood-libels and all the rest of it.

All of this does the Palestinians great harm in the eyes of the world – very understandably.

And the organ-stolen-for-transplants claim, which is old and completely unproven does the same thing. Why press on with something disgusting but not very illegal, when there’s so much more evidence of real international crimes that people could be prosecuted for?

By: Shirin

Shirin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:40:32 +0000

الحد لالله

al hamdulillah

Praise be to God!

By: Shirin

Shirin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:29:58 +0000

The thing is, when people start with that sort of thing it means they’ve run out of real ammunition, and are reduced to, monkey-like, flinging their own poo. When they start with the poo flinging right away it’s a sure sign they didn’t start out with much.

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:18:24 +0000

Calling Georgian Henry “a leading liberal journalist” is laughable. While I may have differences of opinion w. my own CiF editors fr. time to time about my own queries & whether they are CIF-worthy, the truth is that virtually no one would publish my work before they did in 2006. They opened their pages to this progressive Jew and I’m grateful for it. No so called “liberal” publications were willing to touch me. So if CiF is a “liberal” venue then I don’t know what The Nation and other resoundingly progressive media outlets are. Is there some litmus test for whether one is a mere liberal or a full blooded progressive??