Comments on: StandWithUs Lies About J Street http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2009/10/07/standwithus-lies-about-j-street/ Essays on politics, culture and ideas about Israeli-Arab peace and world music Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:52:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Be careful what you say about Israel, terrible critics | Antony Loewenstein http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2009/10/07/standwithus-lies-about-j-street/comment-page-1/#comment-115929 Be careful what you say about Israel, terrible critics | Antony Loewenstein Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:13:53 +0000 http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/?p=8661#comment-115929 [...] Roberta Seid from hardline Zionist group StandWithUs – some background on its tactics here – explaining that it’s acceptable to criticise Israel but in reality any criticism is [...] [...] Roberta Seid from hardline Zionist group StandWithUs – some background on its tactics here – explaining that it’s acceptable to criticise Israel but in reality any criticism is [...]

]]> By: DICKERSON3870 http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2009/10/07/standwithus-lies-about-j-street/comment-page-1/#comment-114856 DICKERSON3870 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:00:09 +0000 http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/?p=8661#comment-114856 RE: "STAND-WITH-US LIES ABOUT J STREET" MY COMMENT: Mendacity is one of the traits that distinguish humans from lesser animals. "To lie is to be human." DEDICATION: This comment is dedicated to 'Big Daddy' (sublimely played by Burl Ives) in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: "There ain't nuthin' more powerful than the smell of mendacity!" Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: "Thank you for keeping still, for backing me up in my lie." Brick Pollitt: "Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door." SOURCE (IMDB) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051459/quotes RE: “STAND-WITH-US LIES ABOUT J STREET”

MY COMMENT: Mendacity is one of the traits that distinguish humans from lesser animals. “To lie is to be human.”

DEDICATION: This comment is dedicated to ‘Big Daddy’ (sublimely played by Burl Ives) in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”.

Harvey ‘Big Daddy’ Pollitt: “There ain’t nuthin’ more powerful than the smell of mendacity!”

Margaret “Maggie” Pollitt: “Thank you for keeping still, for backing me up in my lie.”
Brick Pollitt: “Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.”

SOURCE (IMDB) – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051459/quotes

]]> By: Doni Remba http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2009/10/07/standwithus-lies-about-j-street/comment-page-1/#comment-114794 Doni Remba Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:05:11 +0000 http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/?p=8661#comment-114794 Richard, Nice work showing up the lies of SWU. I would add that their claim that Trita Parsi and the National Iranian American Council are the “unofficial lobby for the Iranian regime.” - which Barry Rubin circulated in a recent column they cite - is obscene, given that anyone who reads what NIAC puts out every day, for a long time, knows that they have been the American voice of the reformist movement. I would make one correction to your rebuttal though. You described Jimmy Carter as the president who "negotiated the only formal peace agreement Israel has ever signed with one of its former Arab enemies." Israel signed a formal peace agreement with Jordan as well, which it fought in mutiple wars through 1967. Israel has two formal peace agreements with former enemies, not one! -Doni Richard, Nice work showing up the lies of SWU. I would add that their claim that Trita Parsi and the National Iranian American Council are the “unofficial lobby for the Iranian regime.” – which Barry Rubin circulated in a recent column they cite – is obscene, given that anyone who reads what NIAC puts out every day, for a long time, knows that they have been the American voice of the reformist movement.

I would make one correction to your rebuttal though. You described Jimmy Carter as the president who “negotiated the only formal peace agreement Israel has ever signed with one of its former Arab enemies.” Israel signed a formal peace agreement with Jordan as well, which it fought in mutiple wars through 1967. Israel has two formal peace agreements with former enemies, not one!

-Doni

]]> By: Smearing anybody left of Zionist Genghis Khan | Antony Loewenstein http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2009/10/07/standwithus-lies-about-j-street/comment-page-1/#comment-114789 Smearing anybody left of Zionist Genghis Khan | Antony Loewenstein Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:14:23 +0000 http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/?p=8661#comment-114789 [...] Why is the Zionist hard-right so afraid of J Street? [...] [...] Why is the Zionist hard-right so afraid of J Street? [...]

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