tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post3742919728190723349..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism (Again)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-50314429254840063192016-10-05T00:49:01.155-04:002016-10-05T00:49:01.155-04:00I am actually delighted to read this post that car...I am actually delighted to read this post that carries countless of helpful information, thanks!<br /><a href="http://www.kuwaitlocal.com/exchange_rates_in_kuwait" rel="nofollow">Exchange Rates in Kuwait</a><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-74983551005269241782016-10-02T14:20:52.149-04:002016-10-02T14:20:52.149-04:00The I-P problem as presently constituted is insolu...The I-P problem as presently constituted is insoluble. Period. And the reason is simple. And also can't be addressed openly except (maybe) in restricted fora like this one. Because to do so puts one in a place where that Brown person would feel fortunate.<br /><br />The issue is this one. Some portion of the Likud Coalition and/or its membership is Eliminationist. You can set this portion at 1% or 10% or 30% or perhaps 51% or more. But it exists. If given its head it would treat the Book of Joshua as an operations manual with the Palestinians serving in place of the Canaanites in the interest of reclaiming the Promised Land in its Greater Israel form.<br /><br />I can name names. From a fairly modest knowledge base. Experts can name more names with more specificity. But as long as the equation preferred by the Israeli Right is member of a party supporting Likud = Likud = Prime Minister of Israel = Israel = World Jewry, naming ANY name makes you by (Likud's preferred definition) an anti-Semite. "But the Minister for This said That----". Boom you have invoked a version of Godwin's Law and not only called Bibi Hitler but also implicated the nice people at your local Hillel. And no "But I just meant him or her and their explicit words advocating the expulsion or killing of Israeli Arabs in the interest of a Jewish only Greater Israel" doesn't get you the needed anti-anti-Semite cred.<br /><br />It would be one thing if this epistemic closure was invisible to all its members but it isn't. There are leaders who are fully aware of its contradictions but who exploit it in what I can only describe as open and notorious fashion. Instead leaders like Sharon and Bibi have posed to the world as being JUST OUTSIDE the cray cray and so being the only possible intermediators and interlocutors. And everyone who denies that is self-hating (if a Jew) or a flat out anti-Semite (if not).<br /><br />And of course there is a mirror version of this. Which makes the situation even more insoluble. I was recently a resident of a Graduate Student Co-Op in Berkeley that was fairly heavily involved in BDS. Including some Iranian nationals. And I can tell you there wasn't a Death to Israel guy or gal among them. Which doesn't mean such don't exist, and not just on the fringes of the movement.<br /><br />Insoluble I said, insoluble I meant. There are just too many people with too much influence (even if not matched by pure overall numbers) too close to the levers. I don't even have a point here. Which is the point. I gave up and I give up.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04849952583072660993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-20533227967402896512016-10-02T13:20:01.657-04:002016-10-02T13:20:01.657-04:00"You can be a B without being an A. (This de..."You can be a B without being an A. (This describes me.)"<br /><br />Me too. Related - you can be Irish Protestant and still hope that Ulster will leave the UK and join the Republic of Ireland.ProGrowthLiberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17138489390594441753noreply@blogger.com