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Monday, February 11, 2008 12:00 AM

The blind giant of the Middle East

Israel's disastrous Second Lebanon War showed we've become an existential danger to ourselves. Our future depends on fundamental change.

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  • Monday, February 11, 2008 01:57 PM

    @Ben Sen

    It must be comforting to set up a straw man and then throw tomatoes at him. However,

    1) I never called anyone anti-semite. I prefer to argue on merits of what was said

    2) I was responding to specific letters who were really questioning whether Israel should exist as a Jewish state or should be merged into one Palestinian state.

    3) I was also responding to a letter a while back of someone who suggested that Israelis are foreigners and are all Ashkenazim

    4) I was also responding to the letter just above that suggested that Israel imprisoned Palestinians into Gaza "Gulag."

    5) What exactly is your point about my "four entries all to support Israel"? If I write in four different discussion threads, what relevance do those letters have to the one I just wrote? I never monopolize the discussion and try to argue as specific as possible.

    You have nothing of substance to say except to attack my handle, which is kind of stupid, because I never gave it too much significance. What do you care what handle I chose a year ago, anyway?

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