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    Re: Yes some fantastic articles in Haaretz amid all the occupation-justifying bilge Archived Message

    Posted by Thomas Newfield on January 27, 2020, 2:06 am, in reply to "Re: Yes some fantastic articles in Haaretz amid all the occupation-justifying bilge"

    ? Isn't this another example of your sweeping powers of observation on the lines of: "..many here, who laugh at the desecration of churches..."

    I gave evidence for that which you decided was insufficient, but, not for me. The main thing though for me here, on that subject, is a reflex mocking of religion, including most of the hard won accumulations of our culture, by those whose religion is materialism-nihilism and various types of ego-worship.

    I can only imagine that this collective criticism too is likewise just as weak (i.e. non existent) on evidence as was the latter. i.e. one individual said/ posted something you disagreed with.

    See above. Clear evidence in my view but not yours. What struck me then as now was how unimpressed readers were by the mocking of desecration and the destruction of culture. I think you are blinkered on that one but will not persist.

    On support for NATO, Israel. First let's distinguish between stating "I don't like NATO" and / or emoting about Palestinian suffering... on the one hand, and on the other, supporting NATO and Israeli policy in effect. In the latter category I'd put the projects in Syria of the supposedly Kurdish "Rojava" and their supposed anarchist experiment. That's a common albeit minority view here, I think. Ditto, a lot of emphasis on supposed absolute distinctions between zionist Israel on the one hand, and Jewish currents there and around the world, on the other. I think that lets Israel and its backers off the hook.

    Anyway thanks for the replies Ken. I don't have the time or mental energy to pursue much here now, I'm jaded about much of the motivation, I can't exclude myself from that either. I've got into a lot of ding-dongs which i don't feel do justice to anyone including myself, not the end of the world, but hardly creative, and signals too to step away. I probably have less to offer myself, if there was ever anything much. So I'm going to slip noiselessly and I dare say unnoticed or missed, away. All the best, thanks for the sharpness, civility and other riches and God bless.

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