tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873837983794172904.post633395688323110415..comments2023-10-15T07:25:13.077-07:00Comments on BRUMSPEAK: Alice in Wonderland Goes to Toronto: When Uri Avnery is Defending Israel, You Know Things are BadDavid Brumerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04290621672310065155noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873837983794172904.post-51269074220016301062009-09-15T17:16:02.247-07:002009-09-15T17:16:02.247-07:00It kind of seems like some people only signed on t...It kind of seems like some people only signed on the anti-Israeli list because it is cool. I am not defending Israel here but I would never sign such a list if I didn't know much about the issue. Wondering how many of the signatories are well informed about it.<br /><br />Ellahome staging in Torontohttp://stagerssource.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873837983794172904.post-48093263829169659052009-09-11T13:35:36.635-07:002009-09-11T13:35:36.635-07:00The list of anti-Israel signatories is terrifying....The list of anti-Israel signatories is terrifying. So many well-informed, intelligent people get worked up over a film festival showing Israeli movies--all of which are quite ambivalent in their portrayal of Israel. None of these people has ever reacted to moderate President Rafsanjani's 2001 statement that when the world of Islam attained nuclear capabilities, Israel would be destroyed. None of them has ever reacted to Nasrallah's statement that Allah permitted Israel to be created so that Jews could all be killed in one place without having to hunt for them all over the world (cited in "Nasrallah's Nonsense" in the now-defunct New York Sun, on March 11, 2005). None of the gay-rights activists know that Israel has an annual gay-pride parade and has drafted openly homosexual men and women ever since it came into existence. None of the feminists know that Golda Meir was the first woman head of government who was neither the daughter (like Indira Gandhi) nor the wife (like Sirimavo Bandaranaike) of a previous head of government. Israel ius simply the most hated country on earth, and that's all there is to it.George Jochnowitzhttp://www.jochnowitz.netnoreply@blogger.com