mrdb44

Mark,

I feel I should tell you that your website has shown me how people I once admired are ... flawed.

There was a time when I always listened to John Pilger and Noam Chomsky but not anymore.

You really convinced me on some issues but I have to tell you there is still a lot we don't agree on.

This is from an article you linked to on your website.


http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=21267

"Even in the United States, however, one can now turn the TV to channels like MSNBC and CNN to see Ariel Sharon who is the elected Prime Minister of a democracy equated politically and morally with Yasser Arafat who is a dictator, a terrorist and an enemy of the United States. One can see the same equivalence drawn between Israel’s democracy and the Palestine Authority, which is a terrorist entity and an ally of America’s enemies Al Qaeda and Iraq"



Now you are a staunch defender of Israel.

I again have to thank you, because I see now that people like Genk from the Young Turks, and many liberals equate Hamas with Israel or ignore it.

But Israel is a flawed country.


I still see a problem with Israel, and it's simple.


In the 1980's Israel elected   Menachem Begin  as Prime Minister, a man who had been denounced by Ben-Gurion as an outlaw and whose group the irgun you also hate.


And it was during the 1980's that Ariel Sharon was found to have personal, but indirect, responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres.


How could Israel elect such men as Prime Ministers, when they had been shown to be war criminals or the kind of people who would ally with neo-Nazis?


This is where I disagree with you Mark, because you say that I and other Non-Israelis have little right to criticise the country.

But thtere are good reasons to condemn Israel.

How could the people of Israel elect men like that?

I think it is becuase racism is still a problem in Israel.

Why else would they choose such Anti-Arab scum?

This is why the conflict is not a black and white affair.

Israel has a lot to answer for as well, even if the Arab crimes have been worse.



Also, in regard to Communism, you say on your site that Communism is also a religion, but surely you can admit that with Communist Albania, an Atheist State, or Cambodia, where people who prayed were shot, that the problem was anti-religious hate.


I like your site Mark, and I hope you will reply soon.


Dan