tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20813989.post114123564086706400..comments2023-10-25T14:26:50.521+00:00Comments on Working Group on the Middle East Peace Process: nextcenturyfoundationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01644848836042696917noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20813989.post-1141299264723838082006-03-02T11:34:00.000+00:002006-03-02T11:34:00.000+00:00On the anti-semitism piece - your point about well...On the anti-semitism piece - your point about well meaning lefties recycling the ideas that Jews have brought hatred upon themselves is well made. Shame it didn't get published - although it is sometimes worth letting editors have their way (I once had a 500 word letter edited to 50 for inclusion, but was glad that my basic point was published).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20813989.post-1141236368411932882006-03-01T18:06:00.000+00:002006-03-01T18:06:00.000+00:00Thanks for sending this Davis I do actu...Thanks for sending this Davis I do actually disagree with you and look<BR/>forward to talking about it with you one day<BR/> <BR/>I have actually written to him to thank him for the article and as I <BR/>remember him some years ago he was a sincere man<BR/> <BR/>All the best JuneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20813989.post-1141236331347246352006-03-01T18:05:00.000+00:002006-03-01T18:05:00.000+00:00Thanks for taking the trouble. I agree with what...Thanks for taking the trouble. I agree with what you say whilst recognising that many people who attempt to sit on the fence can find them selves very uncomfortable. <BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>The passage I cannot accept in any way is the one that begins:<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>'If I feel all that in my guts and know it in my head, I cannot stand by and<BR/>watch the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,<BR/>when a great many citizens of Israel think and speak of Palestinians in the<BR/>way a great many Germans thought and spoke about Jews when I was one of them and had to flee. '.<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>That at best is an oversimplification and at worst is racist and subversive.<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>However, (there is always a 'however') I guess he is not wide of the mark when he says:<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>'Peace cannot be made by building a wall on Palestinian land that makes the life of the miserably conquered more miserable still. A Palestinian Bantustan will be a source of unrest and violence for ever. <BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>Running through the whole piece is the view that what has happened and - worse - what might happen is down to Israel's policy and nothing else. That is simplistic as you say, plain wrong and it is also dangerous. <BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>I grow weary of all this backward looking stuff (from any direction) - let him propose a solution.<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>Peter DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20813989.post-1141236258716057922006-03-01T18:04:00.000+00:002006-03-01T18:04:00.000+00:00Dear Davis, Your email is one of about 300 that ha...Dear Davis,<BR/> <BR/>Your email is one of about 300 that have arrived in two days...nearly all frrom Jews, praise and blame in roughly equal numbers. As we're both at Sussex, why not meet and talk. Phone me to arrage something. (01273) XXXXXX.<BR/>Shalom<BR/>Paul OeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com