tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post5706302270777186408..comments2023-10-03T23:58:17.279+11:00Comments on Middle East Reality Check: Looking For a Job? Try PoliticsMERChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500573372528287733noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-17881927387155302112012-01-24T09:11:39.109+11:002012-01-24T09:11:39.109+11:00"What is your position with regard to Zionism..."What is your position with regard to Zionism?<br /><br />"I grew up in a Zionist home. We came here because of Zionism and were in the Zionist underground in Iraq."<br /><br />From 'The Origins & Development of Israel's Black Panther Movement - an interview with BP leader Kokhavi Shemesh in 'Israel & the Palestinians', Edited by Davis, Mack & Yuval Davis, 1975, p 269MERCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-85274048091690354052012-01-23T07:20:35.240+11:002012-01-23T07:20:35.240+11:00I don't accept the premise that Arab Jews were...I don't accept the premise that Arab Jews were thrown out. Having first emptied 78% of Palestine of its non-Jewish Arab population in 1948, Israel then set out to boost its numbers by uprooting Arab Jewish communities in the early 50s.MERCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-77397310427047871002012-01-11T14:18:20.160+11:002012-01-11T14:18:20.160+11:00And, I almost forgot, you still haven't told m...And, I almost forgot, you still haven't told me whether Israel - the world's greatest haven for refugees, right? - is going to open its borders to the suffering masses of Syria.MERCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-69831432054307286742012-01-11T14:09:47.752+11:002012-01-11T14:09:47.752+11:00Could you please source that one about "wipin...Could you please source that one about "wiping Israel off the map" for me, or is it just another product of 'your' fertile imagination?MERCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-82540271524264651582012-01-11T13:49:24.666+11:002012-01-11T13:49:24.666+11:00What a bunch of hypocritical do nothings and consp...What a bunch of hypocritical do nothings and conspiracy mongers.<br /><br />Take a look at yourselves in the mirror.<br /><br />As for your ideas MERC.<br />Israel took in over 800000 Arabic and African Jews that were thrown out of their own countries--including Syria.<br /><br />My point is where are all the do good bleeding heart arab sunni muslim nations and their sychophantic ngos ?<br /><br />But hey MERC you are right--what do i know--way too sophisticated for me.<br /><br />Seriously, Syria will implode--its only a matter of when<br /><br />Iran will lose her ally, as will hezbollah.<br /><br />Iran will feel more bellicose and threaten strait of hormuz..<br /><br />and from there with less that a year before iran's first nuke..<br /><br />i would not want to be a palestinian, israeli, jordania, nor lebanese.<br /><br />its all bad.<br /><br />and the rights of palestinian people to a side for a moment--we have a homicidal, and insane religious leadership determined to use their weapon--in wiping israel off the map--as they had quoted.<br />except the fallout and bomb blast will kill everyone in a land one third the size of tasmania.<br /><br />then palestinian land rights and israeli security will mean sweet nothingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-90861358830886268882012-01-10T15:50:01.944+11:002012-01-10T15:50:01.944+11:00Not really. I barely scan his other tripe.Not really. I barely scan his other tripe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-56264025118823448762012-01-10T14:43:09.780+11:002012-01-10T14:43:09.780+11:00But seriously, wouldn't you like to hear him e...But seriously, wouldn't you like to hear him explain why suffering Syrians - 30 per day or so he claims - can't possibly be taken in by Israel, that otherwise heart of a heartless neighborhood?MERCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-78184885578871732122012-01-10T13:29:30.076+11:002012-01-10T13:29:30.076+11:00I don't know why you bother to bite, MERC. The...I don't know why you bother to bite, MERC. The drivel he spouts speaks for itself. That said, the Syrian situation is so murky and our press so compliant about broadcasting anything that benefits Israel, I wouldn't be surprised if the whole 'uprising' is a NATO black operation prior to - and to justify - yet another military attack to prevent bloodshed by bombing from a great height.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-81182835380176482262012-01-09T20:35:43.782+11:002012-01-09T20:35:43.782+11:00Point well taken, but a tad too sophisticated for ...Point well taken, but a tad too sophisticated for our Zionist friend I fear.MERCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-1728743335928793682012-01-09T18:43:06.011+11:002012-01-09T18:43:06.011+11:00Anon January 9th, you've missed the point.
Th...Anon January 9th, you've missed the point.<br /><br />The Australian Government and media is taking an appropriately critical position in condemning Government behaviour in Syria. <br /><br />If the Syrian lobby was funding the major parties so that they were terrified of opposing Syrian Government violence, or if the Syrian lobby was taking MPS and journalists on 'fact-finding' junkets to Syria, or if the Australian Government starts holding birthday celebrations for Syria in our parliament, I promise I will start a web site dedicated to providing information about the brutality of the regime.<br /><br />The Israel lobby's distortion of out political process (including the 4th Estate) is the reason why we need MERC's web site.<br /><br />Stop killing Palestinians and stealing their land, and the criticism will cease. Stop buying the support of the Australian polity, and web sites like this will cease to exist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-89061125276974932852012-01-09T12:28:38.723+11:002012-01-09T12:28:38.723+11:00So why isn't beautiful Israel taking in Syrian...So why isn't beautiful Israel taking in Syrian refugees then?MERCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-10118016183308556702012-01-08T20:16:35.305+11:002012-01-08T20:16:35.305+11:00Spot on.
I was planning on helping the Greens to u...Spot on.<br />I was planning on helping the Greens to unseat Tanya (just have to get ahead of Libs in the primaries), but now they have been frightened off as well.<br />No doubt she doesn't have bad dreams about Palestinians dying, while sleeping between her silk sheets ....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com