Comments on: Tony Blair or Lauren Booth? http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/tony-blair-or-lauren-booth/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:34:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: Ben http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/tony-blair-or-lauren-booth/#comment-1042 Ben Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:14:37 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=220#comment-1042 Sorry to disappoint you, anonymous, but you weren't deleted or edited. Your comment has been published exactly as you wrote it. I leave the task of censorship to those who would boycott Israeli academics, artists and writers simply because they are Israelis. I'm really not that interested in the person you describe as "a well spoken, extremely bright and brave woman." My point concerns the futile gesture politics you and your shipmates are indulging in, which are a blind alley for the people you claim to be helping. If you do get to Gaza, will you be examining the human rights abuses committed by Hamas? Or does that not fall into your definition of solidarity? Sorry to disappoint you, anonymous, but you weren’t deleted or edited. Your comment has been published exactly as you wrote it. I leave the task of censorship to those who would boycott Israeli academics, artists and writers simply because they are Israelis.

I’m really not that interested in the person you describe as “a well spoken, extremely bright and brave woman.” My point concerns the futile gesture politics you and your shipmates are indulging in, which are a blind alley for the people you claim to be helping.

If you do get to Gaza, will you be examining the human rights abuses committed by Hamas? Or does that not fall into your definition of solidarity?

]]> By: Anonymous from a boat in Cyprus http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/tony-blair-or-lauren-booth/#comment-1041 Anonymous from a boat in Cyprus Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:58:50 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=220#comment-1041 It's certainly entertaining reading your "article" if you can call it that. Considering I have heard it is no good to try to write extreme right winged hawks, I thought it was a vaguely entertaining attempt to undermine the truth of our mission. You should meet this well spoken, extremely bright and brave woman before you judge her. As most people on the boat I seek to remain anonymous, I'm neither thrill seeking nor fame seeking....... the mission I have joined is a reputable, to focus the eyes of the world not on ourselves but on the desperate conditions suffered by those in Gaza due to Israel's illegal blockade. I don't have much time to write in response, and you will most likely edit this, but all I can do it throw my voice out. Don't worry you will hear from us soon! We are very excited to be accepted by 100,000 to 200,000 Palestinians when we arrive on their shore, if Israel doesn't shoot us down before we can put down anchor. It’s certainly entertaining reading your “article” if you can call it that.
Considering I have heard it is no good to try to write extreme right winged hawks, I thought it was a vaguely entertaining attempt to undermine the truth of our mission.
You should meet this well spoken, extremely bright and brave woman before you judge her.
As most people on the boat I seek to remain anonymous, I’m neither thrill seeking nor fame seeking……. the mission I have joined is a reputable, to focus the eyes of the world not on ourselves but on the desperate conditions suffered by those in Gaza due to Israel’s illegal blockade.
I don’t have much time to write in response, and you will most likely edit this, but all I can do it throw my voice out.
Don’t worry you will hear from us soon!
We are very excited to be accepted by 100,000 to 200,000 Palestinians when we arrive on their shore, if Israel doesn’t shoot us down before we can put down anchor.

]]> By: Ben http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/tony-blair-or-lauren-booth/#comment-1024 Ben Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:35:59 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=220#comment-1024 She may be a fool, but that's not a crime. She may be a fool, but that’s not a crime.

]]> By: BlairSupporter http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/tony-blair-or-lauren-booth/#comment-1020 BlairSupporter Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:49:27 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=220#comment-1020 Mr Blair's idiotic sister-in-law presumably wanted him to show us all his guts on Hamas News! The woman's a fool and should be locked up. Pity we can't choose our family members. I too believe that Mr Blair is possibly the only one who can get things moving out there. If he can't, I tell you, no-one can. Blair's a great man, and a great loss to my country. Mr Blair’s idiotic sister-in-law presumably wanted him to show us all his guts on Hamas News!

The woman’s a fool and should be locked up. Pity we can’t choose our family members.

I too believe that Mr Blair is possibly the only one who can get things moving out there. If he can’t, I tell you, no-one can.

Blair’s a great man, and a great loss to my country.

]]> By: Noga http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/tony-blair-or-lauren-booth/#comment-1016 Noga Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:01:44 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=220#comment-1016 Don't you find it bizarre how Palestinian narrative tries to imitate, almost point by point, the saddest and most traumatic highlights in modern Jewish history? Edward Said started it, when he insisted on equivalence between the Holocaust and the Nakba. Of course he didn't come out and just declared it to be so but rather snuck it into the I/P discourse, when he "prophesized" that peace would only be possible when the Arabs accepted the reality of the Holocaust and Jews - the reality of the Nakba. Following Rachel Corrie's death, there has been a flurry of impassioned literary activity to make her out to be the "Palestinian" Anne Frank. To say nothing about the analogy of Gaza and the concentration camps or Ramallah and Warsaw Ghetto. And now this ridiculous ship with its ridiculous agenda and its ridiculous passengers, trying to imitate that other Jewish ship, Exodus. It's a systematic attack on Jewish history by means of auctioning ethnic self-pity. Don’t you find it bizarre how Palestinian narrative tries to imitate, almost point by point, the saddest and most traumatic highlights in modern Jewish history?

Edward Said started it, when he insisted on equivalence between the Holocaust and the Nakba. Of course he didn’t come out and just declared it to be so but rather snuck it into the I/P discourse, when he “prophesized” that peace would only be possible when the Arabs accepted the reality of the Holocaust and Jews - the reality of the Nakba.

Following Rachel Corrie’s death, there has been a flurry of impassioned literary activity to make her out to be the “Palestinian” Anne Frank.

To say nothing about the analogy of Gaza and the concentration camps or Ramallah and Warsaw Ghetto.

And now this ridiculous ship with its ridiculous agenda and its ridiculous passengers, trying to imitate that other Jewish ship, Exodus.

It’s a systematic attack on Jewish history by means of auctioning ethnic self-pity.

]]> By: Lynne T http://blog.z-word.com/2008/08/tony-blair-or-lauren-booth/#comment-1008 Lynne T Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:21:21 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=220#comment-1008 So Blair thinks there's been a 60 year failure to negotiate, and not that on one side of the divide we have a party that either takes a completely non-negotiable position (Hamas) and another that bargains in bad faith (Fatah). So Blair thinks there’s been a 60 year failure to negotiate, and not that on one side of the divide we have a party that either takes a completely non-negotiable position (Hamas) and another that bargains in bad faith (Fatah).

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