ONE: Mr. Singer, I would be the last to discourage you from giving me the opportunity to expound further. Jews are nothing but members of a religion, see Shlomo Sand The Invention of the Jewish People. Religions have no rights to much of anything but to practice within the limits of the law. Members of a religion have no rights to a country of their own as the US explained to the Mormons in 1838.

This is not the place to expose all the nonsense of the fanciful Old Testament which was first written in Greek and has about as much factual content as the Wizard of Oz. If interested you can read it all here http://www.giwersworld.org/made-in-alexandria/index.html Suffice to say, religious superstition is worthless and makes the believers look like fools.

But there are consequences to believing superstition such as the inherent racism of the idea of a "jewish people" as well as a danger such as when the Nazis adopted it and no longer would mere conversion suffice.

As the terms I use are unquestionably correct you are declaring reciting the truth is the same as hate. The truth cannot be hate. There is no requirement to use call a military dictatorship an occupation just because it does not sound as bad.

And it serves to save words where an honest person has to declare it a criminal occupation. Izziehuggers love to argue the criminal aspect of it (ignorantly of course) but that the Palestinians did not elect to be ruled by the IDF makes it an obvious military dictatorship. The IDF embodies the highest jewish values and is the most moral army in the world therefore it is clearly a jewish military dictatorship. If you wish to debate the tyranny part I have dozens of haaretz and jpost articles as examples of tyranny

TWO: But you see I know better than to call Jews a race. There are Negroids and Mongoloids and Caucasoids among the races but not a Jewisoid in sight. The word race has a meaning. Jews are not a race, period. Therefore no matter what is said about the members of the Jewish religion it cannot be racism.

Condemning religions is old hat. It is almost part of the Republican Party Platform to condemn Islam. There is no particular reason not to condemn the primitive ritual/taboo genital mutilating religion of Judaism. (Reform is a minority not a save from the condemnation and still they mutilate the genitalia of infants.)

As to a negotiated solution, it is not to wait until the Palestinians give into all jewish demands. It is a matter of getting all the Jews back to Israel where they belong ASAP, one year max. A million Russians traveled thousands of miles to get to Israel in about six years. Moving 750,000 jewish war criminals ten miles back to Israel should not take more than a few months. So don't tell me it is hard.

Human rights and full self-determination are NOT a matter of negotiation but are inalienable rights and deadly force is appropriate to gains those rights, see US Declaration of Independence for details. The deprivation of human rights is tyranny, read up on the tyrant George III. See the Virginia state motto, Sic Semper Tryanni

The Iron Webmaster keeps spewing out his Jew hating bile under the cloak of anonymity. Who knows - eventually he might run out of what to say.

David Singer

I really do think you should follow Deborah Lipstadt's example and refrain from any sort of engagement with Holocaust deniers.

To stevenlmeyer

I thought I had already made that abundantly clear.

Mr Singer wrote;

“I have never denied that the civil and religious rights of the non-Jewish communities in Palestine were to be safeguarded. Indeed they have been by Israel.”

Absurd denialism abounds on both sides it seems.

Though there has been some small signs of improvement last month.

“JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has unexpectedly eased restrictions on Palestinians looking to visit Jerusalem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, saying improved security meant it could let in thousands more from the occupied West Bank.”

“Israeli officials said on Wednesday they had lowered the age limit for men wanting to visit al-Aqsa mosque in the old city to 40 from 50 and had also handed out seven times more permits to Palestinians between the ages of 35 and 40.”

http://news.yahoo.com/palestinians-flock-jerusalem-israeli-restrictions-eased-152403694.html