Earlier today I lef this comment underneath a posting on a friend's blog:
Turkey Pastrami? Turkey Bacon?
Errk. That's like those weird white-folks tofu compounds. Enough to frighten one away from strange foreign foods entirely.
Extract from a fictional travel book: "The old Jewish quarter in Shinkenfressersburg on the river Knor was named 'Vegetariengasse', after it's main thoroughfare, where the oldest shul, Knesses Ha Tsimchonim, was located. After the rise of chassidus, dissidents in the community built 'Kehal Tivonos', which by the turn of the century ceased to exist due to chronic hunger, and, it is said, a complete lack of oneg shabbes."
The river Knor, as you probably remember, is a branch of the Maggi, which flows into Lake Hotchpots (Hoczpocz Foldvar) just south of Aggida.
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If this travel book were to really exist, it would probably need to be illustrated by Eduard Blutig or E. G. Deadworry. And published by Black Doll Press (a division of Elephant House) in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts.
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Hi,
I spotted your comment on shaigetz about the American Left being anti-Semites. Mind to elaborate? (I'm asking 'cos on other sites you present yourself as "liberal", which nowadays is more associated with the left. Not that a leftist objecting to other leftist's anti-Semitism is not legit or contradictory, but it's just... rare? [certainly not well-done!] uncommon...?)
Josef Izraels (yea, the one from the canal)
THX
I'll probably elaborate on this in a posting later this week. But in the meantime, let's just say that, all else being equal, one has to support the side which most closely reflects one's own ideals and values. Which is Israel.
[I do not believe in adhering to hypocritical and studied neutrality.]
Yes, there is much that Israel does which can be criticized. But Israel is regularly drenched with criticism, whereas the frequent outrages of the Arab side receive tolerant understanding and are lauded.
The gloating appreciation of acts of "resistance", no matter how sadistic and anti-Semitic in nature such acts clearly are, is obscene.
Shooting a mother and her four children is not a valid political statement. Blowing up a bus is not a valid political statement. Pushing a cripple in a wheelchair overboard is not a valid political statement.
Excusing brutal acts of terror because one sympathizes with the third world is also not a valid political statement.
I happen to think that in the main the Palestinian point of view is wrong. But I think that their explosive and murderous ways of expressing their point of view devalue whatever shred of justification they might have had.
And, as a liberal, I hold that if you were born in a country you have a right to be there.
I was born in the US - I have a right to be here. Many Muslims were born in Holland and Belgium - they have a right to be there. Most Israelis were born in Israel - they have a right to be there. Most Palestinians were born outside of Israel - they have a right to be there.
Palestinians in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and elsewhere in the Arab world have a right to be there - it is appalling that their right is not acknowledged by their kin, co-religionists, and linguistic equals. And it is an outrage that the world acquiesces in perpetuating their misery.
Hey man!
So in short you're a liberal just as I am. (well, almost ;-) )
Bottom line, your head isn't completely up DB's colon. Which is good.
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