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		<title>By: bozh</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/ashkelon-speaks/#comment-50054</link>
		<dc:creator>bozh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>b99,
no, nazis had no right to kill even one &#039;jew&#039;.
if  &#039;jews&#039;  wld see selves as people first and then whatever, one can be rightfully annoyed with their cult and their jewishness.
however, abhorence of mosheic misteachings is still valid.

as i have stated numerous times, one cannot or shld not hate a &#039;jew&#039; or even his/her &#039;jewishness&#039;-  one can and shld hate some of  what they do and say.
i did say that we will stop abhoring &#039;jews&#039; when they stop persecuting pals. I shldn&#039;t included self in the hate of &#039;jews&#039;.  I do not hate &#039;jews&#039;  as bipeds, but only their misdeeds.
but then again, it may be a myth that one can like a criminal and at the same time hate his/her crimes.

re ultranat&#039;sm, the words theft or imperialism wld have clarified the problem. 
you&#039;re right, your  &#039;explanation&#039;  of wandering &#039;jew&#039;  [a pole, russian with the cult] does not end abhorence of the  quality called  &quot;jewishness&quot; nor of much of what is in mosheism or judaism [christianity]
tnx</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>b99,<br />
no, nazis had no right to kill even one &#8216;jew&#8217;.<br />
if  &#8216;jews&#8217;  wld see selves as people first and then whatever, one can be rightfully annoyed with their cult and their jewishness.<br />
however, abhorence of mosheic misteachings is still valid.</p>
<p>as i have stated numerous times, one cannot or shld not hate a &#8216;jew&#8217; or even his/her &#8216;jewishness&#8217;-  one can and shld hate some of  what they do and say.<br />
i did say that we will stop abhoring &#8216;jews&#8217; when they stop persecuting pals. I shldn&#8217;t included self in the hate of &#8216;jews&#8217;.  I do not hate &#8216;jews&#8217;  as bipeds, but only their misdeeds.<br />
but then again, it may be a myth that one can like a criminal and at the same time hate his/her crimes.</p>
<p>re ultranat&#8217;sm, the words theft or imperialism wld have clarified the problem.<br />
you&#8217;re right, your  &#8216;explanation&#8217;  of wandering &#8216;jew&#8217;  [a pole, russian with the cult] does not end abhorence of the  quality called  &#8220;jewishness&#8221; nor of much of what is in mosheism or judaism [christianity]<br />
tnx</p>
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		<title>By: B99</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/ashkelon-speaks/#comment-50036</link>
		<dc:creator>B99</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bozh  - I&#039;d say nationalism becomes ultranationalism when it involves thoughts of superiority of blood lines.  I&#039;d say nationalism becomes ultranationalism when it means the expansion of one people at the expense of another.  

&#039;Wandering Jew&#039; is an expression. It refers to Jews in the diaspora which until Israel was established meant all but a handful of Jews living in Palestine.  It is the existential condition of Jews over the last 2000 years or so and extremely important to their outlook on history.  The Jewish status in Europe is in some measure a result of how they saw themselves and how others saw them.  As non-Christians, they did not meld into the almost entirely Christian population.  As being the &#039;killers of Christ&#039; they were persecuted. With a very well-developed sense of intellectual pursuit (and an almost total abandonment of physical labor) they were mistrusted.  The more  different Jews were from others the more they were isolated from the native population, and the more the natives regarded them as a different people the more the isolated themselves - it was mutually reinforcing.  This can be annoying, but should not result in genocide.

The sooner Jews stop persecuting Palestinians the better and safer we will all be.  But it seems from your tone that this will not end your abhorrence of Jews.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bozh  &#8211; I&#8217;d say nationalism becomes ultranationalism when it involves thoughts of superiority of blood lines.  I&#8217;d say nationalism becomes ultranationalism when it means the expansion of one people at the expense of another.  </p>
<p>&#8216;Wandering Jew&#8217; is an expression. It refers to Jews in the diaspora which until Israel was established meant all but a handful of Jews living in Palestine.  It is the existential condition of Jews over the last 2000 years or so and extremely important to their outlook on history.  The Jewish status in Europe is in some measure a result of how they saw themselves and how others saw them.  As non-Christians, they did not meld into the almost entirely Christian population.  As being the &#8216;killers of Christ&#8217; they were persecuted. With a very well-developed sense of intellectual pursuit (and an almost total abandonment of physical labor) they were mistrusted.  The more  different Jews were from others the more they were isolated from the native population, and the more the natives regarded them as a different people the more the isolated themselves &#8211; it was mutually reinforcing.  This can be annoying, but should not result in genocide.</p>
<p>The sooner Jews stop persecuting Palestinians the better and safer we will all be.  But it seems from your tone that this will not end your abhorrence of Jews.</p>
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		<title>By: bozh</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/ashkelon-speaks/#comment-50030</link>
		<dc:creator>bozh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>b99,
respectfully,
i&#039;d ask you what&#039;s the difference bwtn nat&#039;sm and ultranat&#039;sm? And which land, with a more or less homogeneous pop,  became ultranat&#039;c?

for only thus can we gain an understanding of how/why/when or if a homogeneous people became  indepedent or ultranat&#039;c.

regarding norway, slovakia, latvia, estonia, ukraine, lithuania, &#039;stans, et al,  i think we need not dwell upon them much; except to say, it was a good thing.

i have left croatia, slovenia  out, not because  croats, slovenes, et al did not  deserve independence as much as all the lands i listed above,  but because both left and the right opposed splitup of yugoslavia, but not on any panhuman principle but on expediency, rationalization, etc. 

rationalization post &#039;35  went on like this: serbs and croats are one people; they speak the same langauge; they are in tribal stage at that time, etc.
meanwhile the facts of much import was always omitted: Croats had in tenth century the oldest kingdom in europe. Serbs have established own kingdom a century later.
serbs were orthodox, croats catholics. 
the two kingdoms never ever waged war against each either.  They  had their first war in  &#039;91; serbs  were aggressors, mainly because of serb pop strewn all over croatia; most came to croatia in 17th century at behest of austrian empire.
leftists still lament break up of yugolsavia and feel sorry for serbia even tho she may be most responsible for break up of that empire; in the main,  beacause serbia was after greater serbia.
it lost kosovo only because of her pursuit for greater serbia and because it abrogated kosovo independence that tito had given kosovars.
unilateral dissolution of kosovo in &#039;87 passed on without a whimper from other republics. It signified break up which all republics wanted.
what the role of  US had been in this break up, i cannot tell.

now a bit ab.  wandering &#039;jew&#039; who later came to the notion that he too has a right to a country.
the word &quot;wandering&quot;  contains some assumptions or even propaganda. I do not know that &#039;jews&#039;  wandered. It contains a hidden assumption that &#039;jews&#039; had no place or country to reside in.

i&#039;d like to hear more ab. this from historians. It may be noted, that it is actually the sense of  &#039;jewishness&#039;  in e. europe  which alienated and annoyed all people who had to endure such cultishness.
can one imagine  a person in US who wld say or imply, I am no longer an american; i am from now on only a Koreshi, levite, buddhist?
how wld people feel in the presence of people who followed jones cult?
isn&#039;t that why some 700 followers of his cult went to guainna and en masse comitted suicide rather that return to US?
persecutors are persecuted. As soon as  &#039;jews&#039; stop persecuting pals the sooner we will stop abhoring &#039;jews&#039;.
there is no other way. tnx</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>b99,<br />
respectfully,<br />
i&#8217;d ask you what&#8217;s the difference bwtn nat&#8217;sm and ultranat&#8217;sm? And which land, with a more or less homogeneous pop,  became ultranat&#8217;c?</p>
<p>for only thus can we gain an understanding of how/why/when or if a homogeneous people became  indepedent or ultranat&#8217;c.</p>
<p>regarding norway, slovakia, latvia, estonia, ukraine, lithuania, &#8216;stans, et al,  i think we need not dwell upon them much; except to say, it was a good thing.</p>
<p>i have left croatia, slovenia  out, not because  croats, slovenes, et al did not  deserve independence as much as all the lands i listed above,  but because both left and the right opposed splitup of yugoslavia, but not on any panhuman principle but on expediency, rationalization, etc. </p>
<p>rationalization post &#8217;35  went on like this: serbs and croats are one people; they speak the same langauge; they are in tribal stage at that time, etc.<br />
meanwhile the facts of much import was always omitted: Croats had in tenth century the oldest kingdom in europe. Serbs have established own kingdom a century later.<br />
serbs were orthodox, croats catholics.<br />
the two kingdoms never ever waged war against each either.  They  had their first war in  &#8217;91; serbs  were aggressors, mainly because of serb pop strewn all over croatia; most came to croatia in 17th century at behest of austrian empire.<br />
leftists still lament break up of yugolsavia and feel sorry for serbia even tho she may be most responsible for break up of that empire; in the main,  beacause serbia was after greater serbia.<br />
it lost kosovo only because of her pursuit for greater serbia and because it abrogated kosovo independence that tito had given kosovars.<br />
unilateral dissolution of kosovo in &#8217;87 passed on without a whimper from other republics. It signified break up which all republics wanted.<br />
what the role of  US had been in this break up, i cannot tell.</p>
<p>now a bit ab.  wandering &#8216;jew&#8217; who later came to the notion that he too has a right to a country.<br />
the word &#8220;wandering&#8221;  contains some assumptions or even propaganda. I do not know that &#8216;jews&#8217;  wandered. It contains a hidden assumption that &#8216;jews&#8217; had no place or country to reside in.</p>
<p>i&#8217;d like to hear more ab. this from historians. It may be noted, that it is actually the sense of  &#8216;jewishness&#8217;  in e. europe  which alienated and annoyed all people who had to endure such cultishness.<br />
can one imagine  a person in US who wld say or imply, I am no longer an american; i am from now on only a Koreshi, levite, buddhist?<br />
how wld people feel in the presence of people who followed jones cult?<br />
isn&#8217;t that why some 700 followers of his cult went to guainna and en masse comitted suicide rather that return to US?<br />
persecutors are persecuted. As soon as  &#8216;jews&#8217; stop persecuting pals the sooner we will stop abhoring &#8216;jews&#8217;.<br />
there is no other way. tnx</p>
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		<title>By: B99</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/ashkelon-speaks/#comment-50024</link>
		<dc:creator>B99</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bozh - The 1800s saw the rise of ultranationalism in Europe (not that it had not been nascent anyway).  A principle of this is the notion of capital &#039;P&#039; Peoples - the important People -  People who have Nations - not tribes, nor clans who are merely small *p* people in the most generic sense.  Germany and Italy belatedly joined Britain and France as full sized centralized nation-states.  Also by this time, some Jews in western Europe had given up on assimilation into their respective countries and so came to the conclusion that the &#039;wandering Jew&#039; too, should have a state so that Jews could take their place among the civilized nations of the world.   At this time, the New World had long been divvied up, much of Asia was either colonized or under a &#039;realm of influence,&#039; and in 1884, the European powers divided up all of Sub-Saharan Africa amongst themselves.  This is the age of nationalism, colonialism and imperialism.  Zionists Jews wanted their piece of the action.

Europeans had two streams of  thought about the other peoples of the world.  One was that they were a lesser people who could and should be exploited for the benefit of the master people - Europeans.  The second stream was that other peoples had full potential to be as civilized as Europeans, but it would take a massive civilizing effort to bring them up to par.  It was not so much that they were inferior so much as they had flawed cultures.  With some effort, one could make an Algerian or Senegalese as French as a native Parisian.  In the meantime, the colonizers will relieve them of their resource burden. 

Yes, the UN was morally bankrupt then - and it is still very deeply flawed.  But though almost all the nations of the world routinely vote to end the occupation, no one offers up the resolution that Israel be dissolved.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bozh &#8211; The 1800s saw the rise of ultranationalism in Europe (not that it had not been nascent anyway).  A principle of this is the notion of capital &#8216;P&#8217; Peoples &#8211; the important People &#8211;  People who have Nations &#8211; not tribes, nor clans who are merely small *p* people in the most generic sense.  Germany and Italy belatedly joined Britain and France as full sized centralized nation-states.  Also by this time, some Jews in western Europe had given up on assimilation into their respective countries and so came to the conclusion that the &#8216;wandering Jew&#8217; too, should have a state so that Jews could take their place among the civilized nations of the world.   At this time, the New World had long been divvied up, much of Asia was either colonized or under a &#8216;realm of influence,&#8217; and in 1884, the European powers divided up all of Sub-Saharan Africa amongst themselves.  This is the age of nationalism, colonialism and imperialism.  Zionists Jews wanted their piece of the action.</p>
<p>Europeans had two streams of  thought about the other peoples of the world.  One was that they were a lesser people who could and should be exploited for the benefit of the master people &#8211; Europeans.  The second stream was that other peoples had full potential to be as civilized as Europeans, but it would take a massive civilizing effort to bring them up to par.  It was not so much that they were inferior so much as they had flawed cultures.  With some effort, one could make an Algerian or Senegalese as French as a native Parisian.  In the meantime, the colonizers will relieve them of their resource burden. </p>
<p>Yes, the UN was morally bankrupt then &#8211; and it is still very deeply flawed.  But though almost all the nations of the world routinely vote to end the occupation, no one offers up the resolution that Israel be dissolved.</p>
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		<title>By: bozhidar balkas vancouver</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/ashkelon-speaks/#comment-49748</link>
		<dc:creator>bozhidar balkas vancouver</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>balfour declaration &#039;17, league of nations &#039;22 [which excluded ab. half the world pop from participation in it] largely composed of evil empires and christian lands, said one thing and meant s&#039;mthing else.
even the word &quot;partition&quot;  is misleading: if one tries to achieve a partition in canada or US, one quickly sees its false symbolic value.

however, i am not saying that egyptians, palestinians, and arab speaking divergent peoples were duped by balfour&#039;s or League&#039;s words.
they saw the writing on the wall.

canaanitic-shemitic peoples were never stupid and are not stupid now.
it may be that at one time that 95% of people in christian lands thought of arabs as stupid, primitive, etc.

they acquired these beliefs because  media only published pieces and letters that demeaned arabs and told lies ab. them.
i have written hundreds of letters to n. amer media as well to US, UK, french, and german, and canadian gov&#039;ts; refuting these lies.
only one of my letters had been published:  in vcr province a  decade ago.
the province now is owned by strongly zionistic asper family. I no loger reead it nor any privately-owned publication. 
tnx
 
but they cld not even  resist euros with cult let alone disobey  those evil empires and other christian lands.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>balfour declaration &#8217;17, league of nations &#8217;22 [which excluded ab. half the world pop from participation in it] largely composed of evil empires and christian lands, said one thing and meant s&#8217;mthing else.<br />
even the word &#8220;partition&#8221;  is misleading: if one tries to achieve a partition in canada or US, one quickly sees its false symbolic value.</p>
<p>however, i am not saying that egyptians, palestinians, and arab speaking divergent peoples were duped by balfour&#8217;s or League&#8217;s words.<br />
they saw the writing on the wall.</p>
<p>canaanitic-shemitic peoples were never stupid and are not stupid now.<br />
it may be that at one time that 95% of people in christian lands thought of arabs as stupid, primitive, etc.</p>
<p>they acquired these beliefs because  media only published pieces and letters that demeaned arabs and told lies ab. them.<br />
i have written hundreds of letters to n. amer media as well to US, UK, french, and german, and canadian gov&#8217;ts; refuting these lies.<br />
only one of my letters had been published:  in vcr province a  decade ago.<br />
the province now is owned by strongly zionistic asper family. I no loger reead it nor any privately-owned publication.<br />
tnx</p>
<p>but they cld not even  resist euros with cult let alone disobey  those evil empires and other christian lands.</p>
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		<title>By: B99</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/ashkelon-speaks/#comment-49721</link>
		<dc:creator>B99</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rashi and opel - The UN General Assembly resolution partitioning Palestine was a recommendation.  As such, if either side rejects the recommendation, then it is mooted.  That&#039;s how the UN operates.  And that&#039;s essentially what happened.  It was understood that Palestinians were in their rights to reject the resolution  - and they did so.  To make a long story short, Jewish forces subsequently ignored the rejection and when the Brits pulled out, they began their conquest of what amounted to  78% of Palestine.  Confirming that this partition agreement was unworkable in the face of Palestinian rejection, the United States  also subsequently reversed its endorsement of it.  

And it should be noted that the plan to evict the Palestinians from the country was long in the works.  It is known as Plan D (Dalet) and was drawn up over a period of time by a host of soon-to-be Israeli notables in a house in Tel Aviv.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rashi and opel &#8211; The UN General Assembly resolution partitioning Palestine was a recommendation.  As such, if either side rejects the recommendation, then it is mooted.  That&#8217;s how the UN operates.  And that&#8217;s essentially what happened.  It was understood that Palestinians were in their rights to reject the resolution  &#8211; and they did so.  To make a long story short, Jewish forces subsequently ignored the rejection and when the Brits pulled out, they began their conquest of what amounted to  78% of Palestine.  Confirming that this partition agreement was unworkable in the face of Palestinian rejection, the United States  also subsequently reversed its endorsement of it.  </p>
<p>And it should be noted that the plan to evict the Palestinians from the country was long in the works.  It is known as Plan D (Dalet) and was drawn up over a period of time by a host of soon-to-be Israeli notables in a house in Tel Aviv.</p>
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		<title>By: Dan L.</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/ashkelon-speaks/#comment-49717</link>
		<dc:creator>Dan L.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am deleting all comments that don&#039;t add to the discussion, that use profane language, insult, are just derogatory, combative, angry and don&#039;t directly respond to arguments.  I don&#039;t expect everyone to agree with the article content and will accept contrary opinions that are  honestly expressed and rebuttals that are also honestly expressed.  
I welcome all facts. I don&#039;t welcome personal attacks and use of the article as a springboard for personal vituperation between commentators.
So, if your comment is deleted, please don&#039;t feel there is an ulterior motive. Think of the reason and try to rephrase the comment.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am deleting all comments that don&#8217;t add to the discussion, that use profane language, insult, are just derogatory, combative, angry and don&#8217;t directly respond to arguments.  I don&#8217;t expect everyone to agree with the article content and will accept contrary opinions that are  honestly expressed and rebuttals that are also honestly expressed.<br />
I welcome all facts. I don&#8217;t welcome personal attacks and use of the article as a springboard for personal vituperation between commentators.<br />
So, if your comment is deleted, please don&#8217;t feel there is an ulterior motive. Think of the reason and try to rephrase the comment.</p>
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		<title>By: Mulga Mumblebrain</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/ashkelon-speaks/#comment-49715</link>
		<dc:creator>Mulga Mumblebrain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>rashi&#039;s comment is pure bullshit, as anyone with the merest acquaintance with the facts knows. I recommend Ilan Pappe&#039;s &#039;The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine&#039; for any who do not know the truth. The arrogance of the lying in the service of brutal, sadistic and continuing racist oppression, is the Zionasty &#039;Gold Standard&#039;. Apparently being the Supreme Creatures of the Universe (take that you Daleks) lets you say anything you like, no matter how far from the facts, and it miraculously becomes the Truth, by Divine intercession.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rashi&#8217;s comment is pure bullshit, as anyone with the merest acquaintance with the facts knows. I recommend Ilan Pappe&#8217;s &#8216;The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine&#8217; for any who do not know the truth. The arrogance of the lying in the service of brutal, sadistic and continuing racist oppression, is the Zionasty &#8216;Gold Standard&#8217;. Apparently being the Supreme Creatures of the Universe (take that you Daleks) lets you say anything you like, no matter how far from the facts, and it miraculously becomes the Truth, by Divine intercession.</p>
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		<title>By: opeluboy</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/ashkelon-speaks/#comment-49703</link>
		<dc:creator>opeluboy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I second Dan L&#039;s response.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I second Dan L&#8217;s response.</p>
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		<title>By: rashi</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/ashkelon-speaks/#comment-49698</link>
		<dc:creator>rashi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The point is that the Jewish side accepted the UN partition plan while the Arab side rejected it and tried to prevent it&#039;s implementation,by force. Had the Arabs accepted partition there wouldn&#039;t have been a war, and no Palestinian would have become a refugee.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The point is that the Jewish side accepted the UN partition plan while the Arab side rejected it and tried to prevent it&#8217;s implementation,by force. Had the Arabs accepted partition there wouldn&#8217;t have been a war, and no Palestinian would have become a refugee.</p>
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		<title>By: Dan L.</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/ashkelon-speaks/#comment-49692</link>
		<dc:creator>Dan L.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>B99&#039;s response is a model comment; not because of any agreement with the article, but because  it examines the content and adds to the dialogue.  New information that is eloquently expressed gives value to the already written word and encourages further discussion. Thanks B99 for giving us  more worthwhile thought and additional clarification to this difficult situation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>B99&#8242;s response is a model comment; not because of any agreement with the article, but because  it examines the content and adds to the dialogue.  New information that is eloquently expressed gives value to the already written word and encourages further discussion. Thanks B99 for giving us  more worthwhile thought and additional clarification to this difficult situation.</p>
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		<title>By: B99</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/ashkelon-speaks/#comment-49690</link>
		<dc:creator>B99</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>While I would differ on a few details on how to describe the Palestinian resistance, the article is a perfect depiction of how thoroughly systematized the occupation is - from pre-state and early Israeli acts of terror, to insideous manipulation of individual travelers - from violent eviction of Palestinian inhabitants to mere nomenclature - the erasure of the name on the map and replacing it with a non-Arab name - a process repeated throughout Israel where ever there were Palestinian towns.  When the Jews overtook Palestine, a team was formed to rename all the many thousands of places - villages, springs, hills, plains, caves - that were all named in Arabic because that&#039;s who inhabited that dear country.  The Bible was scoured for Hebrew place names - and the bible came up well short by a very large factor.  And that is why in many places, Arabic names were merely Hebraicized - as from Majdal to Migdal.

The central argument regarding the Egyptians holds true.  With a few notable exceptions neither the Egyptian army nor the other Arab forces conducted major incursions into territory set aside by the UN for the Jewish state.  The same cannot be said to be true of the forces of the Yishuv - they defending &#039;Jewish&#039; territory, they then began over running Arab territory, all the while evicting more than 700,000 native inhabitants.  As Chaim Weizmann called it: - &quot;The miraculous cleaning (cleansing) of the land.&quot;  Maybe  the first time the ethnic cleansing phrase has ever been used - and used as a positive.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While I would differ on a few details on how to describe the Palestinian resistance, the article is a perfect depiction of how thoroughly systematized the occupation is &#8211; from pre-state and early Israeli acts of terror, to insideous manipulation of individual travelers &#8211; from violent eviction of Palestinian inhabitants to mere nomenclature &#8211; the erasure of the name on the map and replacing it with a non-Arab name &#8211; a process repeated throughout Israel where ever there were Palestinian towns.  When the Jews overtook Palestine, a team was formed to rename all the many thousands of places &#8211; villages, springs, hills, plains, caves &#8211; that were all named in Arabic because that&#8217;s who inhabited that dear country.  The Bible was scoured for Hebrew place names &#8211; and the bible came up well short by a very large factor.  And that is why in many places, Arabic names were merely Hebraicized &#8211; as from Majdal to Migdal.</p>
<p>The central argument regarding the Egyptians holds true.  With a few notable exceptions neither the Egyptian army nor the other Arab forces conducted major incursions into territory set aside by the UN for the Jewish state.  The same cannot be said to be true of the forces of the Yishuv &#8211; they defending &#8216;Jewish&#8217; territory, they then began over running Arab territory, all the while evicting more than 700,000 native inhabitants.  As Chaim Weizmann called it: &#8211; &#8220;The miraculous cleaning (cleansing) of the land.&#8221;  Maybe  the first time the ethnic cleansing phrase has ever been used &#8211; and used as a positive.</p>
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