cohenite, if you seriously believe that Israel = the good guys, and Palestinians = the bad guys, just because the majority of Palestinians are Muslims, then I do not see how your input can in any way constructive.

By the way, cohenite, how do "the Greens give succour to Hamas and" Hezbollah?

And regarding the Max Brenner protests, my point was not about whether or not there is anything wrong with giving gift baskets to Israeli military personnel. My point was that the protests are about Max Brenner giving gift baskets to Israeli military personnel, and not, despite what Jonathan J. Ariel claims, because the business's owners are Jewish.

Hey Fungus,

You said that I am wrong to brand the BDS movement as anti-Semitic.

You’re kidding me, mate.

Please, don’t just take my word for it. Take the word of someone else. The word of an academic.

Not a conservative, but a far left, pro-Arab, Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Noam Chomsky, himself pointed out just how anti-Semitic the BDS is.

The world famous friend of Arabs everywhere and arguably a gentleman who isn't very popular in Israel mouthed those words.

Watch the video of a interview with Chomsky.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5hY-gffV0M

While it takes time to warm up and lasts about 14 minutes, it's well worth listening to, all the way to the end.

Chomsky is appalled by the BDS, who he reminds us, are nothing other than Jew haters.

Lee Rhiannon, BDS advocate, is a supporter of Hamas.

Israel are neither good nor bad; they are the primary target of islamic expansionism; people who do not understand that are either stupid or quislings.

And what does this mean:

"my point was not about whether or not there is anything wrong with giving gift baskets to Israeli military personnel. My point was that the protests are about Max Brenner giving gift baskets to Israeli military personnel."

So, you don't care that MB gives chocolate to "Israeli military personnel" but you support the BDS protest based on MB giving chocolate to "Israeli military personnel".

Clear as mud.

"errant autocorrection" says csteele.

Jewishness=anti-jewish

A Fruedian slip more like it.

csteele and fungus are pathetic; neither will admit to being islamic supporters, or deny it.

Can you please provide a source for your claim that Lee Rhiannon is a supporter of Hamas?

"Israel are neither good nor bad; they are the primary target of islamic expansionism; people who do not understand that are either stupid or quislings."

Actually, it is Israel that is being expansionist.

My point about the Max Brenner protests was what the protest is, and isn't, about. One can agree or disagree with the protest, or with the BDS movement generally, but should still be able to make the distinction between targeting the state of Israel and companies complicit in Israel's actions, and targeting Jews. Jonathan J. Ariel obviously cannot. Also, the BDS charter says that people and organisations can pick and choose what they wish to target. That is, somebody might not see a problem with sending gift baskets to Israeli military personnel, and therefore not target Max Brenner, but might have a problem with Caterpillar exporting bulldozers to Israel, and therefore target Caterpillar. Thus, it is possible for somebody to support BDS and not agree with the Max Brenner protests.

One under god:

You don’t seem to understand the difference between fact and suspicion. Nothing is known for certain yet – that is why they want to examine the body. Are you proposing to pre-empt their investigation? Or do you already have the results of this test even before they carry it out? Can you please refer me to your secret source?

“Unsupported_polonium.. ie..from israel..nuke facilities..”

Your assumption that this alleged nuclear substance could only have come from an Israeli nuclear reactor is naïve in the extreme. Have you ever heard of other countries with nuclear facilities? Countries like Pakistan? India? North Korea? The US? Russia? England? China? France? Possibly Iran? Yasser Arafat’s career as a mass terrorist spanned many decades. He accumulated a lot of enemies, even among the Palestinians themselves as he siphoned billions of dollars from the Palestinian public purse into his own accounts (embezzlement was another one of his fine qualities). If he was indeed poisoned, there is no shortage of potential candidates who might have been involved.

Also, read the following sentence towards the end of the article you kindly provided (perhaps you were too tired or felt too triumphant to read it all the way to the end):

“A conclusive finding that Arafat was poisoned with polonium would not, of course, explain who killed him”

It's a good idea to read an article thoroughly before relying on it to support your theories.

Regarding your allegation blaming Netanyahu for the supposed poisoning, had you done your due diligence properly, you would have known not only how to spell Netanyahu’s name properly, but also the fact that in 2004, the year of Arafat’s death, Netanyahu was a relatively junior minister in the Israeli cabinet, definitely out of favour with the prime minister. He was not in a position to make decisions about poisoning anyone.

I also note that you have not addressed my post refuting your allegation of land theft, I would be interested to know whether you now agree with me or you have some further evidence to provide in support of your allegation.