Comments on: On This Day of Rededication of Holy Temple, Settlers Desecrate Palestinian Mosque

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:26:51 +0000

LINK CORRECTION:

SOURCE (Shoemaker, COMMENT #34) – http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1134455.html

By: Koshiro

Koshiro — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:35:37 +0000

If you want to do something impressive, limit your water consumption to about one third or one fourth of what you’re currently consuming, pump the rest into tanks and deliver it to Palestinians, all at your own expense.

Otherwise: As long as you’re perfectly happy with occupation and oppression as long as it doesn’t become “too ugly”, don’t expect any respect from me.

By: myron joshua

myron joshua — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:09:37 +0000

i have just been called by a friend, asking him to join him and other settlers, to travel to Kfar Yasuf to be together with the Palestinians there and to decry the attack.

I can’t go..(work and my car is in the garage:-(

He told me that there have been denunciations by settler leadership but without more aggressive display of disdain for this violence i fear the message will not get across.

So i am happy that this initiative was taken.

By: myron joshua

myron joshua — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:36:20 +0000

I wish i could say that this horrendous act was the topic of discussion on my settlement.

The silence is as heartbreaking as the act itself.

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:45:14 +0000

The Home Page of Michael A. Shoemaker
Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.
LINK – http://www.pcez.com/~bigshoe/default.htm

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:32:23 +0000

FROM THE COMMENTS ON THE “HAARETZ” ARTICLE:
#34
Title: The Moslems have been vandalizing Jewish sites for decades
Name: Michael A. Shoemaker
City: Eugene State: Oregon, USA

It`s good to finally see some justice in Israel; but a shame that the government isn`t meting it out. When were the perpetrators arrested, who daily vandalized the Temple Mount and Joseph`s tomb? Justice is a sham in Israel! Three cheers for the settlers!

SOURCE (COMMENT #34) – http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1134455.h

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:16:58 +0000

RE: “To let the defilers go free would give Israel a black eye. That’s all that the country and its people care about.”

MY COMMENT: Ditto for AIPAC, ZOA, AJC, ADL, CUFI, Cheney, Dershowitz, Kirk, Hatch, Boenher, Chambliss, Hagee, Voight, Schumer, Berman, Harmon etc.

By: Shirin

Shirin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:13:23 +0000

Coincidentally, just yesterday I came across a discussion of Simone Weil’s writing on “uprootedness”. The author, Nissim Rejwan, is an Iraqi Jewish intellectual and writer who immigrated to Israel in the ’50′s. Among other topics, in the ’50′s and ’60′s he wrote critical pieces about Israeli society.

I quote Simone Weil as saying that uprootedness is dangerous because it is a malady that tends to be self-propagating. “For people who are really uprooted there remain only two possible sorts of behaviour; either to fall into a spiritual lethargy resembling death, like the majority of the slaves in the days of the Roman Empire, or to hurl themselves into some form of activity necessarily designed to uproot, often by the most violent methods, those who are not yet uprooted, or only partly so.“

He goes on to quote Weil as stating that the Hebrews

were escaped slaves, and they either exterminated or reduced to servitude all the peoples of Palestine.

Seems appropriate to apply Weil’s thoughts on uprootedness to the modern-day Jewish State.