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AddReply(308833,"Doesn\'t this Blogger Read? (25)","sk","USA","05/21/08","Yisrael, I was describing, I thought pretty clearly, what you SHOULD be doing.  This is what other settler folk SHOULD be doing as well.  Obviously, it is not being done at all.\n\nYisrael, please remember that I am not Israeli; therefore, my memory is a-ok and I am not easily bamboozled.  You CONTINUE to be evasive, bringing up irrelevancies, feining not to understand what I am saying.");
AddReply(308656,"Is That What Happens?","YMedad","Shiloh","05/20/08","\"barging into YC homes, splashing sewage over everything, screaming into their ears that they should get the hell out of town\" - you think that is what happens?  and you know that in wherever you are?  well, now I know that at least one person could benefit from listening to me - you.");
AddReply(308498,"Yisrael, you continue to dodge the issue.","sk","USA","05/19/08","It is completely irrelevant whether you are paid or not paid.  The issue is that you are helping prop this institution up, when you should have obliterated it instead.   \n\nHow can you do what you should be doing at night (i.e. barging into YC homes, splashing sewage over everything, screaming into their ears that they should get the hell out of town) if you do hasbara for them during the day?  And how can your day job do anything but strengthen the reputation and powers of this smelly organization?");
AddReply(308473,"Sorry but I was Born","YMedad","Shiloh","05/19/08","I was born in The Bronx and moved to Queens although I did live in the UK for two years.  Believe me, I\'m not the problem you guys have.");
AddReply(308341,"Velvel","YMedad","Shiloh","05/19/08","a) I am not a part of the Yesha Council apparatus.  I have explained this several times but you never seem to be able to get it right.\nThe Yesha Council does not have a proper English-language hasbara outfit and, at times, they call on me to speak before the press or visiting froups or diplomats.  In fact, ever since 1974, I\'ve been doing this all by myself or for Techiya or whatever.\n\nb)  in doing so, if it is a background briefing, I make it clear that I do not properly \'represent\' the Council but am explaining what the matters at hand are in the best way possible and I even will note where I differ from the Council.\n\nSo, from now on, attack me for my opinions and not my affiliations which, for the most part, are just there to give you an idea of my general milieu.  Like a NYTimes ad: \"affiliaition for identification purposes only\".\n\nWhen I become a paid or elected Yesha Council official, you can all go fire and brimestone but until then, find another argument in your favor.");
AddReply(308340,"Velvy, I Liked You All Along","Larry","Tel Aviv","05/19/08","Even when you are in hyper-postive mode, and giving me/us/others the needle as well. I also find SK quite intelligent and entertaining. Mike is another matter. \n\nI think Yisrael is British. That could be a factor. I did grad work at Brandeis and knew several Canadian Jews there. They all ripped on the US and on the local Yidden. Despite the origins of his bride, maybe Meidad has the classic British attitude towards the Yanks.");
AddReply(308336,"Just Looking Around","YMedad","Shiloh","05/19/08","Sorry, Larry, it\'s just that when Jews say \"we\", I always look around to see who that \"we\" is, that\'s all.   Like the old Lone Ranger joke.  Surrounded by 10,000 screaming redskins, the Lone Ranger says to Tonto, his faithful sidekick, \"looks like we\'re in trouble, Tonto.\"  And Tonto replies, \"what do you mean by that \'we\', Whiteface?\"\n\nI am not smarter nor more intelligent nor more rational than anybody simply because that person does not live with me, experience the same experiences that I do, serves on the same committees that I do/did, etc., etc., etc.  Nevertheless, I hate using plurals when I am singular.");
AddReply(308289,"Hey Larry I\'m starting to like you...","Velvel","silver spring","05/19/08","heheheh.  Sounds like you are making a lot of sense lately, Larry TA.  Despite some of your not-so-nice comments about me in the past, I will admit you\'re making sense here.  Now the important lesson to be learned here is that as long as Yisrael medad is part of the Yesha Council, he by definition can\'t also be part of the \"we\" that you speak of.  (I can\'t really either from galut, but hey at least I\'m not delusional about it).\n\nIn efforts to reform the system or effect any change whatsoever, only efforts that are dissociated from the Yesha council will be effective because the yesha council by definition and by design is part and parcel of the system.  Not to call them names or pick on Yisrael Medad.  That is simply their function and what they do.  So the sooner people understand this the better.  Then and only then can a \'real rightwing\' be formed.");
AddReply(308281,"To Yisrael","Larry","TA","05/19/08","Apparently your intent in the reply is to exclude me from the \'we\', thus reaffirming your own role in the process. While I respect your uninterrupted, continuous service in The Land, you are writing a blog and addressing specific topics. It is the case that you generally don\'t respond to the content of challenges, unlike most other bloggers on this site. So my conclusion is while I admire and respect your personal Zionism, refusing to express an opinion, or self-criticism, about the Yesha Council and Disengagement doesn\'t add. It creates the impression instead that the act of living in Shiloh makes you better than the rest of us. Even if you are, it still doesn\'t answer the real question, which is, what will the strength of the settlement movement do during the next, larger Disengagement. Based on Gush Katif, the answer seems to be - \'not much unless they are our yishuvim.\' \n\nThis is okay, but it is also disappointing. So is \'who are you to criticize me\'? If the \'core\' of the settlement movement won\'t agree to defend its homes, then I am not sure why others need to bother.");
AddReply(308268,"To Mr. Medad: No Need to be Rude","malka","upstate NY","05/19/08","I meant I didn\'t know what Farblondzt meant when I first read the headline, not after I read the blog post in which you translated the word.\n\nI wasn\'t born Jewish and know extremely few Yiddish phrases. No need to be rude. \n\nYes, I can and did read  your translation in the post.\n");
AddReply(308239," Nobody need appologize for","satch ","UK","05/19/08"," the stammering intellectual idiot of a president who just reads what speeches are written for him, and he don\'t carry a dictionary to know how to pronounce the words and he has no knowledge whatsoever of the Jewish nation nor cares even less!  His adgenda is to make a name for himself before he leaves office and for his part in dividing the land G-d gave to the Jew--he will be held accountable even as America is suffering today in catastrophic weather disasters that intensify as Bush continues to bungle his way with a failed roadmap and determination to curse the Jewish people.  Where is Meshiach?");
AddReply(308224,"Larry: \"We\"?","YMedad","Shiloh","05/18/08","Who is the \"we\"?");
AddReply(307969,"I was worried for a minute, given the rumors ...","sk","USA","05/17/08","... that Yisrael had been tarred, feathered, and ridden out on a rail along with his buddies on the Yesha Council.  Then I realized that this would never happen.\n\nMr. Medad, what you and the other suburbanites fail to understand is that the relationship between the US and Israel is two-way.  For example, the US remained at arm\'s length from the Fakestinians until Rabin shacked up with them.  Even Carter, who was secretly writing things for \'fat, didn\'t go nearly as far in public as he desperately wanted.  Similarly, the US relationship with Israel was much less close until Israel showed that it was a winner in the region, and wasn\'t established until \'67.\n\nJust as you validate the suburbs via the Yesha Council, so has Israeli leadership ALWAYS in some way validated the Fakestinians\' claims and the nonsense of land for peace.  Given that, there are certain things that a president will do that he would not do under other circumstances.  US foreign policy and military strategy are not writ in stone.\n\nI don\'t think Bush is particularly bad on Israel given what he has to work with.  Israel\'s usefulness as an international player has, as Glick predicted, declined because it cannot be relied upon to undermine Islamic jihad in the region.  Rather, it strengthens it, just as a drug that is not used properly does not cure a disease but makes it drug-resistant. Israel has actually had this effect on the Fakestinians & Hezbollah.\n\nThe historical narratives that Bush believes in are tied to what the Israeli elite have maintained ever since they took control of Yesha in the 6-day war.  The same can be said for much of what American Jews believe.  ISRAEL has really created the American leftist Jewish sympathy for the Fakestinians and the peace process.\n\nI said the relationship between the US and Israel was two-way.  I think though that in terms of Fakestinian legitimacy, the direction is mostly from Israel to the US.  As your suburbs merely facilitate the rule of the elites that have caused such damage, and as the YC maintains the suburbs, the first thing you should do is rethink your own role.\n\nAnd, at the risk of repeating myself too often, you have NEVER justified that role here.  Now, you do not really have to do so, but if you don\'t, you will remain an Exhibit A for the self-destructive settler folk.\n\nExhibit B, of course, is Fishman.  And Exhibit C is the Baruch Gordon, who accepts Israeli-style censorship in this august news source.");
AddReply(307928,"Apologize for Attempted Joke","Larry","TA","05/17/08","At the same time maybe we should be focusing on other things than whether Bush said \'Begin\' in his speech. Maybe we should be focusing on how to change the gov\'t and stop the next disengagement, and not obsessing over Bush\'s every word. Maybe we can focus more on acting like sovereign Jews in the Jewish homeland - all of us.");
AddReply(307904,"History","Della","Cloquet","05/17/08","President Bush needs to reread his history manual regarding Israel.");
AddReply(307753,"MR.MEDAD,I LIKE THE WRITING,YERUSHALAYIM BACKGROUND?WEAR A KIPA THANKS","or better pic showing kipa","........................DACON9","05/16/08","");
AddReply(307668,"Nothing wrong with \"Farblunjet\"","Zara","Jerusalem","05/16/08","Farblunjet is a great word. I haven\'t heard it in a loooong time. (Pay no attention to the critics. It is a Yiddish word that is legitimately used in English. \nhttp://www.jstor.org/pss/454508\nIt means: lost, wallowing in the mire, confused, bewildered  \nhttp://www.translationdirectory.com/dictionaries/dictionary004_f.htm\nThanks for that. \nShabbat Shalom.");
AddReply(307647,"Don\'t My Readers Read?","YMedad","Shiloh","05/16/08","One commenter wrote: \"He doesn\'t mention Ben Gurion or Rabin\" when I bring Bush\'s exact quote wherein he actually does.  And another writes he doesn\'t know what the Yiddish term I used means but I translate it in my post.  Come on people, you don\'t have to agree but at least read.");
AddReply(307544,"I don\'t seek to glorify fake rightwing","Velvel","silver spring","05/15/08","Begin, shamir?  Why should I care?  The left will always exclude patriotic nationalist Jews.  But in the end what is Begin\'s legacy?  Sinai surrender and beginning of the Oslo concept.  This is not something to celebrate.  There is no one on the \"right\" or the left to celebrate because they share the same vision.  There is no real right.\n\nAnd I should care what Bush, leader of the goyim, says about my favorite or least favorite Jews?  What he said about the leftists he didn\'t even mean.  What he said about a \"modern economy\" he certainly couldn\'t have meant (or he\'s just mistaken), and what he says about the \"accomplishments\" of those past leaders, is a FARCE because he is undermining and undoing all of it with his shared PLO vision which he shares with the Govt Of Israel.  \n\nCan you see that you all see you are being had and stop squabbling over \"recognition\" of \"accomplishments\" and other meaningless platitudes?   Why seek recognition from an illegitimate non-entity like usa president?");
AddReply(307536,"Not Smarter than a Fifth Grader","malka","upstate NY","05/15/08","And I thought my knowledge of Israeli history was sketchy.  I feel better now. \n\nFarbldonzhet? I didn\'t know what that meant either, but figured it had something to do with a bumbling fool. \n\nIf Bush ever appeared on the  show \"Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader\"....he\'d flunk out after the first grade question.\n\nIsraeli fifth graders should write Bush to educate him on Israeli history 101. They\'re smarter than him.");
AddReply(307514,"\"Visionary leadership of ... Sharon\" - who expelled 10,000 Jews!!!!","Shaul","","05/15/08","Yep, good ol\' Bushwack sure knows who the good guys are - he don\'t leave no doubt in the minds of them feeble-minded Israelis who his pals are...\n\nAs they say, tell me who your friends are and I\'ll tell you who you are...");
AddReply(307504,"Nu be-emet...","Yirmi","Elad","05/15/08","The speech seems Ok.  Why should President Bush mention Begin and Shamir?  He doesn\'t mention Ben Gurion or Rabin.  The only person he mentioned was Harry S Truman.  It was not a policy speech, just a salute to Israel.  Ok, there are greater achievments of Israel over the last 60 years, but the speech was probably not intended to be a comprehensive list.");
AddReply(307485,"Bush vs Olmert","Ivan","Milwaukee","05/15/08","Yeh, but it seems from here that Bush knows more about the founding of Israel than does Olmert.");
AddReply(307378,"two goals","Leah ","Maaleh Adumim","05/15/08","interestingly, Bush\'s trip is to celebrate Israel\'s 60th birthday (although he wasn\'t in Israel on the real Yom Ha\'atzmaut - just on the English date) and 75 years of friendly relations with Saudi Arabia.  I wonder what he is going to say there; and why he needs to compare \"75 years with Saudi Arabia\" to Israel - as if to say that the US has been friends with the arabs a lot longer than with the Jews.  interestingly, this is despite the fact that the arabs stole (\"nationalized\") the oil wells that were discovered due to American efforts, and today are robbing the US and other countries with high oil prices.  I hope that soon an efficient way will be found to use solar energy instead of oil, thus benefiting the environment and cutting off the illegitimate profits of these blackmailers!");
AddReply(307372,"you\'re 100% right","aryeh","same hills","05/15/08","bs\"d\nmenachem begin and yitzchak shamir share equally in the blame for where we are today with ben gurion, golda meir, rabin, etc.");
AddReply(307368,"Farblondzhet?","Larry","TA","05/15/08","Is that Yiddish or Parsi, Yisrael? I don\'t think there\'s much doubt that Peres, at least in spirit, would write Dubya\'s material. But my personal guess would be that Aliza Olmert and Condi wrote it in an \'iterative\' chat, probably using AOL or Yahoo Messenger.");

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