Comments on: Living on Borrowed Time in a Stolen Land

By: American

American — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:52:03 +0000

Here’s a question about this History lesson:
Why doesn’t the United States return its own ‘occupied’ land back to the Native Americans who were here first? In fact lets return the entire Western Hemisphere back to the natives. Every must go back to their native land. I guess that would mean the Jews would go back to…….Israel. Why do Palestinians have a claim to the land, Jews were there before them?

By: James

James — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:01:41 +0000

Hi Gilad,

After reading your article (and the subsequent letters) I wondered if I should take the time and energy to answer or at least discuss the main points of your article.
I realized that doing so would be a waste of time (at this point you are probably saying – aha he can’t answer me). Any answer I would write would be immediately dismissed as lies, or the deluded ramblings of an indoctrinated Israeli (Yes thats right I live in Israel and if we can discuss anything later, I will even tell you where I live (no not the West Bank))).
I hope you have a fruitful life aboard. I hope you will be able to look into yourself and stop hating (yes you do).

By: Sunny Singh

Sunny Singh — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:01:24 +0000

Hi Gilad – great piece. Thanks. Am linking to it from my blog. Very best. S

By: Chirs

Chirs — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:19:23 +0000

One things for sure the zionist stranglehold on the media is slipping fast. We now know when, why, how and who these deluded talmudist psychopaths are and as before when they were kicked out of countries this time it will be global.

By: johndoraemi

johndoraemi — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:35:49 +0000

Gilad’s historical analysis is good.

His military analysis is nonsensical. The Palestinians are winning something? That’s garbage.

Hamas is powerful and able to take the West Bank and destroy Israel?

This is so far from reality, I can’t believe he’s serious. The Hamas “ballistics” are useless fireworks that have NO TARGETING CAPABILITY. Does this factor into the battle? Gaza, as we type, is divided into three, cut apart and its cities surrounded.

This is more the “final solution” and Nazi extermination of the Warsaw Ghetto than any opportunity for Hamas to do anything.

Israel’s crime against humanity must be shown for what it is and that terrorist pariah state cut off from all aid and all political cover.

Genocide is unacceptable. There must be consequences from the “civilized” world.

By: louisa

louisa — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:05:22 +0000

Thanks, Gilad.

Nothing to add but Mahmoud Darwish’s poem:

Our Country is a Graveyard

“Gentlemen, you have transformed
our country into a graveyard
You have planted bullets in our heads,
and organized massacres
Gentlemen, nothing passes like that
without account
All that you have done
to our people is
registered in notebooks”

By: Suthiano

Suthiano — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:23:01 +0000

This is true bozh. Over the last few days a lot of weak Zionist rhetoric has been crushed on these boards. Provides good example of courage needed to stand up to these bullies.

“Negotiations for the acquisition of a Zionist homeland produced few results. Herzl’s audiences with the Ottoman Sultan in 1901-2 did not bear fruit; and in 1903 the British offer of a land grant in the Kenyan highlands of East Africa split the WZO [World Zionist Organization] from top to bottom” (Davies, Europe, 846).

Zionists had cash, political backing… but lacked enough will to settle Palestine. European Jewry was very divided at this time… Even half of WZO was willing to take land in Kenya… which may have been “promised” in the bible too… same way Pope divided Earth for Spain and Portugal… Yanomamo’s living in Amazon basin did not believe in Portuguese “right to land” either…

By: bozh

bozh — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:12:11 +0000

let the free speech flow. imo, it’s good to hear from defenders of israel’s crimes.
for one thing, their ‘facts’ and conclusions can be easily refuted which is big plus for us. new readers need us to educate them. and israel’s defenders provide an oportunity to do just that.
the more they lie or imgine things, the better for palestinians. thnx

By: Suthiano

Suthiano — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:10:02 +0000

The doctrine is one of elitism… kids who grow up expecting to be kings and queens believe they have right to everything… and that everyone else is impediment to that “right”.

By: kahar

kahar — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:51:39 +0000

MrCynic, what is the point talking to the resident psycho? Most Jewish children (speaking from my experience with people in the UK some with dual israeli passports and properties) are thoroughly indoctrinated with the most venomous doctrine from birth, made to memorise and repeat it, and injected with hatred, racism and lies. They grow up into sick, slimey, disgusting robots serving israel.

By: kahar

kahar — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:39:24 +0000

mebosa: “there is nothing worse..” than you.

By: MrCynic3

MrCynic3 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:34:28 +0000

mebosa ritchie ,

Are you serious?!! From where you got that nonsense??
Are you a good science fiction writer?! You must be.
You are trying to insult everyone intelligence here. Knock it off.

By: mebosa ritchie

mebosa ritchie — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:13:05 +0000

gilad,there is nothing worse than a jew hating jew.
read the hamas charter–
“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.
hamas will you gilad as you are a jew
born a jew always
you’re riding the wrong horse
it’s not too late to back to your jewish and zionist heritage

By: giorgio

giorgio — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:11:14 +0000

This is Mossad’s most disturbing secret service motto:
“By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War.”

By: dino

dino — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:17:06 +0000

i can’t see any danger regarding Israel.Today ,more than all times before, Jewish intellectual establish what is moral and what is amoral.i think that is the principal service that Israel give to USA.For instance Bush needed some words for his so called “doctrine”and then appear the great inspirer:Anatoli Sharanski.Bush was very pleased,he said that that were exactly what he wanted to say.After Sharansky, crusades for “democracy” became an usual concept.An Israeli reporter speaking with an politician from Iraq asked him “if Iraq now will going along with the democracies like Israel and USA”.
The same is valuable in establishing “the evil people”.Take for instance pres.Ahmadinejad.I heard him a couple of times and he seems to be a very intelligent and rational being.But not such is his reputation in entire world.Even in net sites like Antiwar is not possible to find something much different from the usual ” radical, lunatic etc”.A single person,a great one, wrote lauds on Ahmadinejad messages from his speeches,Paul Craig Roberts.Hamas had been demonized and as such he was left to be fix by Israeli army and justice.No word at least from
Russia,China,India,Japan.No one leader from any country ask about
the nuclear weapon holds by Israel ,although many in the world thing that Israeli people have some “strange point of view” and play oftentimes ,like today in Gaza,the frightful madman.So i can’t see any danger for Israel.Hamas agreed with the existence of Israel in 67 borders.Iran proposed in 2003 to stop helping the Palestinian resistance.So what is the problem,whole the world dance according with Israeli music.

By: Meead

Meead — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:24:21 +0000

Thanks for your notes. We need to speak up!

By: Tevye

Tevye — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:33:06 +0000

Most Israelis are delusional, and talk just like a German NAZI would have in 1940.

This Jew is fed up with Israel, and hope the Palestinians win back every inch of the land.

By: MrCynic3

MrCynic3 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:47:28 +0000

Gilad Atzmon,

You wrote:
“This week we all learned more about the ballistic capability of Hamas. ”
I am puzzled, what do you mean “ballistic capabilities”
All these rockets are nothing but useless junk. They might have some
psycological value but they mostly cause very little damage and
most of them fell in the opent desert.
When you exagerate the palestinian “capabilities” and the Iseaeli
“vulnerabilities” to that “capabilities”, then you are playing into the
Israeli propoganda claiming that Israel is an innocent helpless victim.
The fact of the matter is that Israel is very safe and secure well into
the foreseeable future. So, please stop fantasizing and building houses
of cards.

By: giorgio

giorgio — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:35:13 +0000

“Once again Jews will have to wander into an unknown fate.”

Gilad,
Your last paragraph just preceeding the sentence above is a jewel of psychological insight into Israel’s “self-centred supremacist” view of its place in the world. Just as there are mentally deranged people in this world, so there are also mentally deranged nations, and Israel is one of them: “a monstrous exterminator” with, as Norman Finkelstein neatly puts it, “a unique entitlement” where everything is permissble to Jews in their relationship to other peoples.
A paranoia mentality which condones in advance any inhuman treatment of non-Jews, for the prevailing mythology is that ‘all people collaborated with the Nazis in the “destruction” of Jewry’.
Menachem Begin, who led the attack on Deir Yassin in April, 1948, and systematically murdered over 100 men, women and children, later showed clearly this ingrained perverted mentality when reacting to criticisms on Israel’s human rights violations, remarked:
“Nobody should preach us Ethics, nobody!”
So much for Zionist moral high ground!

By: Petronius

Petronius — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:44:41 +0000

angry labels…etc.