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In the discussion thread: Yes, all criticism of Israel is antisemitic!(Op-Ed in Jerusalem Post) [View all]

Tue May 29, 2012, 11:06 PM

41. Its not unfair at all. Its common for a country to apply different terms to in its various

agreements with other countries. Different terms address the different or distinct concerns a country has with each country. International agreements are not cookie cutter one size fits all.

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Yes, all criticism of Israel is antisemitic!(Op-Ed in Jerusalem Post) [View all]	Ken Burch	May 2012	OP
One false claim made in the editorial:	Ken Burch	May 2012	#1
The second false claim made in the editorial	Ken Burch	May 2012	#2
Third false claim:	Ken Burch	May 2012	#3
The final paragraph at least makes a reasonable point, but misses the fact that almost all critics	Ken Burch	May 2012	#9
Actually Ken, there are many (even some here at DU) who argue the Jews are not a people...	shira	May 2012	#23
Questioning where there is such a thing as a single "Jewish people" is NOT the same thing	Ken Burch	May 2012	#29
So you're wrong WRT that claim, b/c there are people who deny that Jews are a people...	shira	May 2012	#33
Look, Israel exists and nobody still thinks they can really get rid of it.	Ken Burch	May 2012	#35
Its not unfair at all. Its common for a country to apply different terms to in its various	Dick Dastardly	May 2012	#41
There's no justification for making Palestinian leaders agree to things	Ken Burch	May 2012	#44
Yes there is justification, if genuine peace is the goal...	shira	May 2012	#76
It's enough for them to accept two states.	Ken Burch	May 2012	#82
No, it's not. Not when the PA/Hamas teach the Palestinian public...	shira	May 2012	#83
You do realize, though	Ken Burch	May 2012	#85
You keep bringing up Hamas. I'm still talking about the PA...	shira	May 2012	#87
The PA recognized Israel in 1994. That put the recognition issue to rest for Fatah's part.	Ken Burch	May 2012	#89
If Zionists want to cease being thought of as colonialist	Ken Burch	May 2012	#90
Denial to the Nile.	aquart	May 2012	#5
Uh, no.	Ken Burch	May 2012	#10
If claim #2 is not what anti-zionists believe, then what do they believe? n/t	shira	May 2012	#22
Simply that both communities should live as equals in the same state	Ken Burch	May 2012	#25
Well, at least you got that off your chest...	shira	May 2012	#31
I am against Hamas and have said so repeatedly.	Ken Burch	May 2012	#34
Scary. The best you can do against all that genocidal incitement from Hamas...	shira	May 2012	#38
What do you want?	Ken Burch	May 2012	#39
Do you really not get...	holdencaufield	May 2012	#40
If there'd been no West Bank and Gaza occupations, there'd have been no Hamas	Ken Burch	May 2012	#43
Respectfully - you're wrong	holdencaufield	May 2012	#65
I expect way more from anti-racist progressives who say they take all forms of...	shira	May 2012	#72
Because Belgium is doing so well?	RZM	May 2012	#46
There's no Belgian equivalent to either Hamas or the Irgun	Ken Burch	May 2012	#47
All I'm saying is that it isn't working	RZM	May 2012	#49
The status quo isn't working either, in case you haven't noticed	Ken Burch	May 2012	#50
Not really, As I said before	RZM	May 2012	#51
It's bigoted to assume that the Palestinians would just keep fighting no matter what.	Ken Burch	May 2012	#52
I'm all about granting them these lands. So it's tough argue I don't think they are Palestinian	RZM	May 2012	#56
That first paragraph in your post	Ken Burch	May 2012	#59
Bullshit. Given and taking lands is pure power politics	RZM	May 2012	#62
Let's take a look, shall we?	holdencaufield	May 2012	#70
You may have gotten that slimy personal attack past the jury	Fozzledick	May 2012	#53
It's fair comment about that posters' views.	Ken Burch	May 2012	#55
All I see coming from you is a bigoted personal attack.	Fozzledick	May 2012	#57
You see what you see	Ken Burch	May 2012	#60
So why do you falsely accuse her of bigotry?	Fozzledick	May 2012	#61
Her posts are predicated	Ken Burch	May 2012	#66
Your false assumptions about how she thinks.	Fozzledick	May 2012	#68
I agree with what Fozzledick said nt	King_David	Jun 2012	#101
"She's against peace..defending the Occupation and the settlements proves that"	holdencaufield	May 2012	#71
It's a slimy personal attack, Ken...	shira	May 2012	#77
The fact that they support the initiative does NOT mean	Ken Burch	May 2012	#81
But you said any offer that leaves the bulk of the settlements within Israel....	shira	May 2012	#86
I support Geneva but not the settlement position it takes.	Ken Burch	May 2012	#88
Well now it doesn't matter what you support. The PA won't agree to negotiating anything reasonable	shira	Jun 2012	#94
How do you know this?	BudT	May 2012	#20
What's false about it? Jew murdering is deemed legal resistance to occupation by the ISM...	shira	May 2012	#21
No it isn't.	Ken Burch	May 2012	#24
The ISM and its cheerleaders say armed resistance is legitimate. Look it up. n/t	shira	May 2012	#32
The use of force on BOTH sides is equally wrong	Ken Burch	May 2012	#37
of course there is no moral difference...i personally find looking to kill muslim children gods work	pelsar	May 2012	#42
You should just stop serving in the West Bank. It's right-wing to be there at all.	Ken Burch	May 2012	#45
changing the subject of my remarks......i am only interested in your blanket accusations....	pelsar	May 2012	#58
Can you honestly say that innocent Palestinians NEVER get killed?	Ken Burch	May 2012	#48
dont change the subject.....	pelsar	May 2012	#54
Don't YOU change the subject	Ken Burch	May 2012	#63
you have clearly state that the morality of hamas and that of the IDF is the same.....indirectly	pelsar	May 2012	#64
Not what I was saying.	Ken Burch	May 2012	#67
your words.....you wrote them	pelsar	May 2012	#69
Too damned bad!	FiveGoodMen	May 2012	#4
Hey, I way prefer criticism to exploded buses.	aquart	May 2012	#7
I'm glad you accept that some criticism can be legitimate	Ken Burch	May 2012	#17
any more deserved?	Shaktimaan	Jun 2012	#96
Again, I don't actually AGREE with the editorial in the OP	Ken Burch	May 2012	#13
My tone was directed at the JPost, not at you.	FiveGoodMen	May 2012	#18
Ok...just wanted to make sure people understood	Ken Burch	May 2012	#19
Wow, so there's one thing in the world above criticism... Israel. I got a bridge	sinkingfeeling	May 2012	#6
Compassion is rubber bullets.	aquart	May 2012	#8
Compassion is rubber bullets?	Ken Burch	May 2012	#12
Untrue.	Shaktimaan	Jun 2012	#97
Because the settlements are inherently unjust. Because no Palestinian leadership can accept them	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#99
are they?	Shaktimaan	Jun 2012	#108
You really think that...	Shaktimaan	Jun 2012	#98
It's clearly been made much worse by Israeli actions.	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#100
Is it...	Shaktimaan	Jun 2012	#102
The notion that Palestinian actions are driven mainly by antisemitism	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#103
Well...	Shaktimaan	Jun 2012	#105
We don't know the whole history there	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#106
There's no compassion in punishing an entire family for what one person in that family did	Ken Burch	May 2012	#15
I don't agree with the editorial in that OP	Ken Burch	May 2012	#11
This is not an editorial by the Jerusalem Post, it is an opinion piece by Benjamin Kerstein. . .	Journeyman	May 2012	#14
They still published it.	Ken Burch	May 2012	#16
It's not really hairsplitting	LeftishBrit	May 2012	#27
It hardly makes it alright, though, if the Post published this because they thought	Ken Burch	May 2012	#30
The OP challenges acceptance of open discussion and debate? Au contraire....	shira	May 2012	#79
The author of that editorial demonizes ANY criticism of anything the Israeli government does	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#91
Well then if that's the case, you do the same thing anytime...	shira	Jun 2012	#93
Enough has been said about the videos	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#104
It absolutely is not hair splitting. Look, I strongly	cali	May 2012	#73
You posted it here	oberliner	May 2012	#74
it should be posted and I for one am glad Ken did	azurnoir	May 2012	#75
Shocking	oberliner	May 2012	#78
Not shocking. I'm no longer surprised anymore with anything the anti-I contingent believes....	shira	May 2012	#80
I wasn't saying that anybody here at DU agreed with the OP	Ken Burch	May 2012	#84
Wasn't saying anybody here did.	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#92
I did not claim that you did	oberliner	Jun 2012	#95
Oh. Sorry. Didn't realize who you were responding to.	Ken Burch	Jun 2012	#107
Well, I disagree obviously...	LeftishBrit	May 2012	#26
As I explained in the note at the bottom of the OP, I disagree with the argument that the link makes	Ken Burch	May 2012	#28
This is what you want to move into GD?	Ruby the Liberal	May 2012	#36

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