tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post2446938461026309420..comments2023-10-06T11:13:20.836-04:00Comments on Izgad: Uthman Dey: A Humanitarian Hero for Al Nakba DayIzgadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-85710082871769424682012-04-20T15:57:12.377-04:002012-04-20T15:57:12.377-04:00Of course analogies can be turned around and reaso...Of course analogies can be turned around and reasonable people can make a case for the Palestinians. Part of the problem with this conflict as that we are dealing with a situation where both sides deny that the other side even has a perspective, let alone a wrong one. That being said I do expect people to show more compassion to those from the same group as well as those whom they do not believe Izgadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-23800091361350065202012-04-20T15:07:22.454-04:002012-04-20T15:07:22.454-04:00So you like the idea of a Palestinian pirate? Or ...So you like the idea of a Palestinian pirate? Or maybe the fact that Israel lacks the compassion of a modern state that could give sanctuary to Palestinians. Either way, the analogy could be turned around in any direction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-6506974402977506272011-05-10T14:37:02.607-04:002011-05-10T14:37:02.607-04:00I'm sorry, Chomsky probably wasn't the bes...I'm sorry, Chomsky probably wasn't the best way to describe your foreign policy, despite the equivalence the two of you share. My bad.<br /><br />***<br /><br />OK, anyways, so you don't say the Arab world is wrong.<br /><br /><i>What does it tell you if the entire Arab world lacks the humanitarian compassion of a seventeenth century sponsor of piracy?</i><br />It tells Benzion Chinn Baruch Peltahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13178212221463356386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-13504420069610178932011-05-10T13:03:01.999-04:002011-05-10T13:03:01.999-04:00Note that this post was not about right or wrong, ...Note that this post was not about right or wrong, it was about comparing the fate of the Moriscos to that of the Palestinians and asking why the Arab world has refused to do for the Palestinians today what they did for the Moriscos centuries ago.<br />In my moral universe, in a sense Chomsky is far more the enemy than Bin Laden ever was in that Chomsky denies my right to fight back in kind. His Izgadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869626126435460209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-38311391586913313042011-05-10T12:27:18.868-04:002011-05-10T12:27:18.868-04:00What does it tell you if the entire Arab world lac...<i>What does it tell you if the entire Arab world lacks the humanitarian compassion of a seventeenth century sponsor of piracy?</i><br />Well, I thought I learned two posts ago on this very blog that we shouldn't judge people for wanting what they want (whether that be a global Islamic theocracy or the want to rally world opinion and force Israel to give a Palestinian right of return), we Baruch Peltahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13178212221463356386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-54096489559790945072011-05-10T12:25:27.183-04:002011-05-10T12:25:27.183-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Baruch Peltahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13178212221463356386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6543853523791774463.post-7478601314524045562011-05-10T11:48:03.796-04:002011-05-10T11:48:03.796-04:00"He did not put them in refugee camps for six..."<i>He did not put them in refugee camps for sixty-three years to rally world opinion to the pitiful state of these Moriscos and force Spain to take them back</i>".<br /><br />Maybe, if he thought he could get away with it( <i>i.e.</i> he could actually "rally world opinion to the pitiful state of these Moriscos and force Spain to take them back"), he would have "put themTamirnoreply@blogger.com