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• Wednesday, January 7, 2009 11:45 PM

  @omooex

  omooex: "I actually read that column oh, so long ago. Just after I returned from Palestine. To me it was indicative of a certain kind of racism, perfectly acceptable, which claims that Israel has the right to be an exclusive Jewish state, not a government of its people."

  Stating that the settlements and the wall will destroy a two-state solution isn't racist - it is instead an obvious fact to anyone who is looking objectively at what's going on there.

  omooex: "Its absurd to think that a democratic republic can go on expelling people born indisputably within its borders (Jerusalem) and areas that are now de-facto part of Israel and not reach a crisis point, or many, down the line."

  We are in agreement here.

  omooex: "And if you think that Friedman's hand-wringing over the possibility that Israelis might have to share power in a state with Palestinians, rather than relegate them to a series of cantons without real autonomy is going to convince me, you've really got another thing coming."

  Friedman does not support "relegating them to a series of cantons without real autonomy" - he instead advocates for a viable Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.

  omooex: "Israel has ruled over West Bank and Gaza Palestinians for thirty years without giving them the "one man, one vote".

  I'm guessing you intended to write forty years (and counting), not thirty years.

  omooex: "For the past sixteen its sought to permanently avoid the fruit of that rule--a one day civil rights movement akin to that of South Africa--by caging them in a series of bantustans.

  We are again in agreement here.

  omooex: "Friedman's concern is that the wall and increased settlement building will draw attention to this, not that Palestinians receive their right to control their destiny.

  Nope - Friedman is very clear that he supports a viable two-state solution.

  omooex: "I know Friedman very well, and I'm getting to know you just as well."

  If you really knew me "well" then you wouldn't repeatedly continue to misunderstand and grossly misrepresent my position.

  omooex: "Palestinians will forever be to you a second class of person; one you care very deeply about I'm sure. That caring side, leads you to be unperturbed by idealogues who call for their slaughter, and for their continuing marginalization, as long as it is for their betterment."

  Another bullshit fabrication. The irony here is that we agree on far more than you think we do - you're just too closed-minded to see it.

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