ttbn,

I'm not a silly woman as you called me in your post.
Just a curious one and trying to make sense of things.

For as long as you've been on this forum you have been
anti - Socialists, Leftists, Marxists, Progressives,
et al. Now you claim to have read the works of
Frank Furedi for years - a Socialist a Left-Winger
and a founder and leader of the Revolutionary Communist
Party in the UK. You said that his politics don't
interest you. Really? Since when?

And you being such an avid anti-Socialist, anti -
Marxist?

Seeing as you recommended his book to Shadow
Minister on universities - I have one question. Have you
read the book? Because, in it Furedi asks why universities
which in the 1960s nurtured radicalism and intellectual
experimentation have now become conformist?

Furedi feels that now universities need to go back to
the "good old days" and "re-appropriate" their
academic freedom.

Perhaps you'd better actually read what he writes.

That's why I mentioned the "Ooooops." I firmly believe that
you're not fully aware of who the man is - and what he believes
in. But of course I could be wrong. Perhaps what you've
presented to us on this forum has been a facade all along.
And perhaps instead of being anti - all the things you claim
you've been - you've actually been pro - those things.
Or maybe you're a troll - just playing with us?

cont'd ...

ttbn,

Don't get me wrong. I think Frank Furedi writes
beautifully and makes a great deal of sense.
I'm just flabbergasted that you would agree.
That does come as a huge surprise. A pleasant one.

Eichmann was not a monster.
david f,
I remember as a kid when I was listening to the older fellows talking about the war but honestly can't recall them ever referring to Nazis & especially the jewish ones as being nice officers.

Dear Foxy,

Thank you for the extra information on Mr Avi Shavit.

It is likely that Shadow Minister knew this all along but was trying to divert and obfuscate in order to draw attention from what appears to be a high ranking figure in the Israeli apparatus. 'Bus driver' indeed.

One has to wonder the thought processes which leads someone like SM to tout for Israel in such a duplicitous manner.

The only answer seems to be in him having a deep and abiding hatred for Palestinians. To wish more harm and misery on them. To see them cowered and prepared to give up the very land they live on because in his eyes he sees them as not worthy of a homeland, not worthy of a decent life free from a brutal occupation, indeed not worthy of life at all.

And to that end he is prepared to endlessly, thoughtlessly, and with deep malice label any criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic. He has shown a preparedness to debase the use very the word which was derived from the horrors of the Holocaust, yet to him it is but a plaything, something to be flung at the slightest imagined slur against Israel and its venal and corrupt government.

It is a pitiful thing to watch.

ALTRAV,

Just out of curiousity. What is your background?

Could you tell us something about yourself?

What level of education did you complete?

What jobs have you had? Just something to give us a
clearer picture of who you are.

You call yourself "a wog," why?

What does that mean?

Dear individual,

I never claimed that Eichmann was a nice officer. I wrote that he was not a monster but acted like one. How does that make him nice?