My point is that Jews killing/oppressing Arabs is a big deal, while Arabs killing/oppressing Arabs is not (at least from what I can see of the Left).

In fact, Arabs kill/oppress Arabs much more than Jews kill/oppress Arabs.

Mr. Greenwald concentrates on Jews killing/oppressing Arabs. Nothing wrong with that, but I infer from that he holds Jews to a higher standard. I'd like him to answer that.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I haven't heard much from him on the Christian Arab diaspora from Iraq. 600,000 people or so, according to Doonesbury.

You confirmed my judgement.

Asshole.

I can't testify as to the accuracy of the translation, but here it is:

http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm

Terrifying.

As to Glenn's question, no, there is no limit. They are dead to me.

It's a blood feud.

I didn't see this until after the Sabbath, and I don't want to slog through 45 screens of letters.

Do you implicate Egypt in this war as well? Surely, the Sinai has plenty of space for civilians to escape to. Surely, the Egyptians are partners with the Israelis to destroy Hamas.

Do you ask the questions of the Iraqis, when Sunni and Shia kill each other?

Did you ask these questions during the Algerian Civil War?

Or, do you hold Israel and Jews to a higher standard than Arabs?

If so, I applaud you, I do too. I would appreciate it, if you were open about it.

"Imagine the American and Israeli protests if Egypt suggested taking down its wall across the entire southern border of Gaza today ... because that would conclusively break the siege of Gaza."

The whole point of the Gaza disengagement was to give Gaza back to Egypt. Israel doesn't want the Philistines, and neither does Egypt.

Why do you think that Egypt has been collaborating with Israel on the blockade?

There are two unresolvable issues: Jerusalem and the Right of Return, both of which are deal breakers.

Give up hope.

when they seat Sen. Franken!

Do the R's really expect to win this, or is someone going to speak to Coleman and tell him to let it go.

Or perhaps, he's keeping on keeping on to raise money to pay for his legal defense?

Maureen, seriously, what did you expect a nation at war to do with a blockade runner?

What would expect Egypt to do should Hamas lob rockets into the Sinai? And if Israel deserves to be showered with rockets, what about Egypt?

FYI, the Gaza Strip was created by Egypt and the blockade is a joint project between Israel and Egypt, backed by Jordan and Saudi.

are Mizrachi or S'fardi, not Ashkenazi (i.e., Eastern European).

The non-Ashkenazim tend to be more right wing, and more anti-Arab, having lived under them.

The guy you call Jesus said some pretty nasty things about us Pharisees (i.e., all of the Jews today). Spawn of Satan, Wicked Scribes and Hypocrites.

Let's talk about proportionality. See Doonesbury this week? All about Iraqi Christians, exiled by Arab and Kurd Muslims, about a million or so.

Where are the Cynthia McKinney's sailing boats up the Euphrates River? Meanwhile, < 100 civilians have been killed in one of the most densely populated areas on Earth.

Thanks for the detailed info about the Liberty. Basically sounds like a standard friendly fire incident.

Thanks for the tip about the IRA and Southern Ireland. Did not know that.

I guess the IRA is the Irish Hamas.

Isn't McKinney the one Jon Steward called "bat-shit insane"?

Did anybody on board seriously think that they were going to break through a war-time naval blockade, to deliver supplies to the blockading enemy? It was an idiotic stunt; the Israelis should have commandeered the vessel and delivered its supplies to Sderot.

Do you think that the Union Navy would have allowed "humanitarian" supplies to reach the Confederates? C'mon.

The Drag Queens of San Francisco, all the Womon's Collectives in college towns, unReal Americans, etc., should all very publically send diapers, butt wipes, onesies, etc. to the new parents.

Two, three birds or so, one stone.

Dr. Sands point is irrelevant, that's my point.

Ger Tzadikim (Converts) are full Jews, whether African-American, Arab, Latino, German or whatever originally.

It makes absolutely no difference whether a Jew is a blood descendant of Ya'akov Avinu or not (except for Cohanim and Levi'im)

does not appear in the Hebrew Bible. It is a mistranslation; it really means the opposite.

Glenn, I don't think that you realize that this is a blood feud. It's us vs. them. Simple. There is no middle ground, there is no solution, there is no peace possible. It's the Israelites vs. the Philistines again.

Deal with it.

becomes another blood libel, G_d forbid...

that you can't welsh on...

Ayin tachas ayin literally means "eye under eye". It's an expression, just like the English phrase "go jump in a lake." Torah uses that format quite often. The phrase has always been understood as referring to monetary compensation.

Even the Rambam (who lived before English) complained about people taking the phrase literally.

Don't rely on Christian sources for understanding Tanakh, as they don't have access to the Oral Tradition.

Nowhere in the Bible is the phrase "An eye for an eye" written. This is a terrible mistranslation of a section of Torah that calls for monetary justice, not compensatory mutilation.

is really a special T-shirt that we (men) wear. They are called tzitzis, for the strings on the bottom. People have seen them on laundry lines and let their imagination run wild.

FYI

By the way, the Laws of Shabbos Observance are incredibly complex; a popular English language summary takes up 4 hardcover volumes. Salon letters isn't the forum to do the issues justice.