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See Scribbler what happens when you break a broom in two?

Excellent comment, scribbler.

Perhaps you should keep snapping the broom - that way, the likes of Mr Singer's odious rhetoric will retreat into the realms of white noise.

May be I'm not all that smart. Yes all right, no need to shout so loud.

However I would not know what a Jew was like. I wouldn't know if I was talking to one or not.

To me they are pretty hard to pick, at least since we stopped painting a sign on their forehead.

Dear Hasbeen,

<<However I would not know what a Jew was like. I wouldn't know if I was talking to one or not.>>

This is probably because you never had a Jewish horse.
Well, that's understandable as not too many people own horses nowadays.

<<To me they are pretty hard to pick>>

Elusive indeed, no distinct shape, size, taste, sound, colour or odour, but there are two groups of people who believe they can spot them: Nazis and Rabbis. In fact those groups almost agree between them, with the minor exception that the Rabbis believe that people are able to join that group if they undergo certain studies and fulfil certain conditions (such as chopping a certain piece off their body). Both however believe that nobody can escape that unfortunate group - alive or dead, that one could even become the Pope, an Ayatollah, a milkman, a zombie, a tax-officer, a circus-breaker, a Singer, an anti-Singer, pumpkin-soup, an elephant, a horse or horse-manure, but if their mother was Jewish, then so are they. Funny the Christians believe that God had a Jewish mother!

Dear Hasbeen,

You would do well to recognise that Mr Singer has gone to great lengths to couch this issue in purely racial terms. He steadfastly refers to the parties as Jews and Arabs rather than Israelis and Palestinians. In fact he quite notorious for eschewing the single term Palestinians in what can only be described as a pathological manner.

How does this fit his agenda? Well Mr Singer does not believe there is such a thing as a Palestinian people, but further than this he gets to call those who oppose the actions of Israel as Jew-haters. Notice for instance what he has done with the words of Abbas who had been addressing the issue of an IDF presence in the West Bank.

“If there is an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, we won’t agree to the presence of one Israeli in it”

Abbas did not use the term Jew but in Mr Singer's world he gets to be called a Jew hater. This is despite 20% of Israelis not being Jewish.

You need to realise Mr Singer is also determined to parasitically evoke the deep emotions in us, his target audience, about the horror of what befell the Jewish people during the last world war.

He is not alone in doing this but I'm not sure there are many who do it with such little shame.

Dear Mr Singer,

You are a hypocrite of the first order.

You have seemingly made it your life's mission to do everything in your power to stymie the formation of an independent Palestinian state yet you condemn Abbas for not being willing to recognise the state of Israel as a Jewish state. We both know that the Israeli government only started insisting on this after Arafat wrote to the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1993 stating “The PLO recognizes the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security.”.

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After that concession was made the Israeli government again took a step away from peace by insisting this was now not good enough, that the Palestinians had to recognise Israel as a Jewish state. They knew full well how impossible this would be as 20% of the Israeli population were not Jewish.

Further how many Israeli Palestinians are allowed to settle in the illegal West Bank settlements? Are these not just hyper gated communities for Jews only? Are these 600,000 illegal settlers engaged in an ultimate exercise of racial purity funded by the Israeli government and protected by the tanks, and soldiers, and lives of the Israeli Defense Force? Sure Israeli law does not prevent Israeli Palestinians living in illegal West Bank settlements but they are hardly going to be made welcome by the current inhabitants.

This is leading to some interesting contortions from Israeli opinion makers;

“A remedy to this situation must be sought. Israeli Arabs can contribute to the Zionist cause, if Israel builds settlements for them in the West Bank and Jordan River valley. This suggestion makes sense on the following 3 grounds: Firstly, it provides Israeli Arabs with affordable and quality housing beyond the Green Line, thus aligning their interests with those of Jewish settlers.”

“Secondly, by building new towns for non-Jews, Israel reaffirms its commitment to equality amongst all its citizens. Thirdly, such a strategy divides Israel's adversaries: Nowadays neither the Arab League nor Amnesty International show qualms in encouraging the eviction of Jews from their homes - be it in Gaza or in the West Bank. The picture would be different if the evictees were Arabs. After all, how could Arabs be evicted from land the world claims belongs to Arabs?”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4248627,00.html

So building seperate settlements for 'Israeli Arabs' is suppose to convince the rest of the world that there is no racism occurring and reaffirms an Israeli “commitment to equality amongst all its citizens”?

Oh my God.