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11 Responses to “‘President Peres: Save Us from Ourselves’”

1. Delta says:

   August 31, 2010 at 2:16 AM

   Could you provide a link to the original Hebrew piece ?
   it is no where to be found.

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   • Taly says:

     August 31, 2010 at 12:41 PM

     Link to the original Hebrew article
     http://igalsarna.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/%D7%A2%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%A8-%D7%90%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A6%D7%A6%D7%94-%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A1/

     (if the link isn’t/won’t be available, use Google.com not Google.co.il & write in Hebrew יגאל סרנה
     you’ll find it on page 3 under the name
     עד ראיה, אתר רשימות)

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     • Richard Silverstein says:

       August 31, 2010 at 3:27 PM

       Thanks so much for the Hebrew. I’ve posted a comment to his blog & offered my translation to him if he likes it.

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       • Delta says:

         August 31, 2010 at 5:06 PM

         You made it appear as Yigal wrote the piece as a part of his work in yediot. he wrote it on his own blog.

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         • Richard Silverstein says:

           August 31, 2010 at 6:51 PM

           WRONG. YOu’re Israeli & you didn’t see this in Yediot? I have the jpg of the article in case you don’t believe me. Not every Yediot article gets on the website. And yes, he published it in his blog. He’s entitled to publish it both at Yediot & his blog. Nothing unusual in that. You make a big mistake in trying to “find me out.” I don’t make many mistakes that you’re going to catch. And I certainly didn’t here. Keep trying though. Perhaps you’ll eventually catch an error or two.
   • Richard Silverstein says:

     August 31, 2010 at 10:43 PM

     There already is a link to Sarna’s blog in this thread. Are you asking for a link to the Yediot piece in the newspaper? If so, didn’t you read what I said about not all articles being on the website? As I wrote, I have the jpeg & if you insist I’ll post it here. Though it would only be meaningful for you since all other Israelis can read it at Sarna’s blog site.

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2. Gene Schulman says:

   August 31, 2010 at 4:04 AM

   Ye gads, this guy seems to care only about the repercussions to Israel if there is an attack on Iran. He shows not the slightest interest in the Iranians that would be maimed and killed if Israel and/or the US goes ahead with their plans.

   Ye gads, appealing to Peres is tantamount to asking Goldman-Sacks to forgo mortgage payments on your home. Peres has never been serious about peace, he is a racist and only wants to expand Israel and cleanse it from any trace of Islam. Why would he want to prevent the coming war? He is one of its strongest promoters.

   Ye gads, Richard. Evoking God and Obama in the same breath merely shows your own naivté. Anyhow, who can believe in either one of them?

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   • fiddler says:

     August 31, 2010 at 6:52 AM

     I think you’ve answered your second paragraph with your first.

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   • Richard Silverstein says:

     August 31, 2010 at 10:54 PM

     I didn’t say that Sarna’s views were perfectly in accord w. my own. I said that they strike a very deep chord in hopefully a large segment of Israelis & therefore should be better known outside Israel.

     YOu know my views about Peres as I’ve written copiously & harshly about him here. But I couldn’t help be moved by Sarna’s appeal to Peres as someone who might, just might, set things right. Of course, this is a desperate, almost hopeless appeal & Sarna knows that. I don’t know that Peres supports a war with Iran. He certainly has said stupid things about Iran. But supporting a war? Not sure where he stands on that.

     I knew you would hate the reference to God, but what can you do?

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3. Medawar says:

   August 31, 2010 at 6:13 AM

   It isn’t clear that Obama has the capability to do anything much about Iran. God may still have some influence in the matter, though.

   Gene’s right, at least in this instance: it’s not just about what Israel might suffer if it starts a war. There is no situation so dreadful that you are not accountable for how you respond to it.

   The casualties may extend a long way outside both Iran and Israel, too.

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4. Nessim Dayan says:

   August 31, 2010 at 9:50 AM

   Didn’t just write about this a couple of days ago when i said that it is so depressing to be bombarded day in day out about wars that only become self fulfilling.
   Thank you for that someone of putting the feeling out there.
   Government and military hacks are out there not to protect us but to protect themselves and their jobs AT ANY COST, even if that cost sending this country back a million years.
   Zealotry will show the world what true destruction on account or religion is, the problem is we won’t be doing it to someone else but onto ourselves, and the joke is on us, viva the IDF and the settlers.

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