tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787272385367494897.post5588362441490012277..comments2023-10-26T16:38:37.859-07:00Comments on Jewish Bubba: Cont'd Refuting Noam Chomsky's Interview Part II Covering OccupationNadene Goldfoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1787272385367494897.post-54899846629995685252014-12-17T19:23:35.731-08:002014-12-17T19:23:35.731-08:00Anyone who writes for Haaretz is automatically a l...Anyone who writes for Haaretz is automatically a leftist who harms his own nation – Israel. That, alas, is a given. Eldar is just one such miscreant; a relatively unknown columnist for Haaretz. That is why many people give that awful newspaper an Arabic name- Al Haaretz.<br /><br />Blaming Israel for Palestinian terrorism and the failed peace process is irrational. Unable to accept terrorism, Zertal and Eldar transform the ideological and theological onslaught against Jews and a nominally Jewish state into a simpleminded dispute over land: land-for-peace and the two-state-solution.<br /><br />The authors did little original research, instead relying on select left-wing newspaper articles, secondary sources, and tendentious reports. A book written on the premises of such material predictably blames Israel for almost everything. <br /><br />The authors argue that settlements are the primary cause of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, have undermined the rule of law, have subverted the democratic decision-making process in Israel, and "have brought Israeli democracy to the brink of an abyss."<br /><br />This, of course, is arrant nonsense for the Muslim Arab enemies of the Jewish state consider every town, city and village within the 1967 armistice lines also as “settlements.” <br /><br />For the Arabs who fraudulently call themselves Palestinians, the conflict is not about where Jews live but the very existence of a Jewish state. Israel's reconstitution as a nation in its ancient and ancestral biblical homeland is unique in history. But this alone drives Jew haters and self-hating Jews crazy. Chomsky is just one such scoundrel.<br /><br />Jewish villages and neighborhoods are not settlements any more than the Arab communities are settlements – even though the vast majority of such Arab settlements are automatically and incorrectly called villages, but can trace their origin back only to the early 20th century during the period of the vast and illegal influx of Arabs from neighboring stagnant lands during the British Mandate occupation. <br /><br />Calling Jewish villages, “settlements” is a deliberate and pejorative slur, falsely implying that they are a colonial presence in another people’s land: a towering insult to the reborn Jewish presence in its homeland and heartland.<br /><br />If Chomsky praises this screed by Zertal and Eldar, then we should automatically consign it and everything else Chomsky praises into the dustbin of history where it belongs.<br /><br />Best wishes,<br />Victor SharpeNadene Goldfoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01654020384945801380noreply@blogger.com