The Singer is, without doubt, the world's premier lily-gilder.

He can take any situation and, using his devious mind, twist it so that the Israelis are as pure as the driven snow and the Palestinians are black and evil and to blame for every horror that has happened to them since the Jewish plague descended upon them in 1947.

He should be given a medal really but not a solid gold one! Perhaps a lead one with some gold paint on it would suffice.

The medal could be inscribed: "To the King of Gilders. He has no Peer!"

We all hope he disappears!

David G

"The Singer is, without doubt, the world's premier lily-gilder."

And it's a particularly stinking lily.

David Singer

You wrote:

>>Denigrating Jews and delegitimizing the Jewish state will prolong the conflict - not bring about its resolution.>>

"The conflict" as you call it, will never be resolved.

It doesn't matter what mac or David G or anybody else on OLO thinks

The Muslim "ummah" will never accept the legitimacy of a Jewish enclave in the heart of what they regard as Dar-ul-Islam. No amount of legalistic argument is going to change that.

You think that "virtually all members of the US House of Representatives and Senate" are Zionists.

That's taurine fertilser.

I'm inclined to think Obama is sincere. The rest are simply concerned about getting re-elected. At the moment being pro-Israel is a better bet than being anti so Congressmen and Senators support pro-Israel motions.

Where and how this will end I don't know but my guess is in a nuclear war.

In the mean time Israeli scientists continue to produce astonishing technology.

See:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IfJemqkby_0

Pity no Australian government will learn from Israel, Singapore and South Korea and focus on developing Australia's scientific culture. The minerals boom won't last forever and then what?

See for example:

>>Samsung to open startup center in Israel

Global technology giant launches international innovation and strategy center with branch in Ramat Gan, expected to invest millions of dollars in companies and academia>>

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4342371,00.html

Why in Israel?

Why not in Australia?

<<His highly significant use of this keyword on 21 March at the Jerusalem International Convention Centre constituted a diplomatic milestone in America's quest to end the long running Jewish-Arab conflict.>>

Oh Dear David Singer,

What a sad day that would be for you!
You will then sit bored at home and we'll all miss your nearly-weekly articles, especially your devoted EmperorJulian, Mac, David G, Geoff of Perth and Marilyn Shepherd who eagerly await your articles so they can curse the Jews.

Perhaps we should better keep the war going for just another 50 years or so, shall we?

Yuyutsu,

You're rather too glib. Don't paint us all with the same brush, where have I "cursed the Jews".

If I decided, like you, to use ad hominem arguments I could describe all pro-Israel commenters as " racist, Arab-hating Islamophobes" couldn't I?
Of course that's not true, some are, of course.

Dear Mac,

Thanks for your comment!

<<Of course that's not true, some are, of course.>>

And some cursings are justified too.

Carpe Diem!