Comments on: On Israel, the truce and U.S. presidential candidates

By: Mohamed

Mohamed — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:23:21 +0000

First visit to your blog and am liking it! I agree with (most of) that article. I will add that the more extreme Jewish-American position actually poisons the debate and discussion between Israel and its neighbours, both at the national – as was demonstrated by the future presidential policies crafted within AIPAC’s, not Israel’s, limitations — but also on an individual level.
Until grad school I had no direct contact with Israelis and the American media gave me a quite skewed image of Israel and its positions. I discovered, when I lived in the US, that the most reasonable and well-thought conversations I could have on the Arab-Israeli conflict(s) were with the Israelis themselves.

By: Dovaleh Yehudi

Dovaleh Yehudi — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:30:21 +0000

“noble” Lol. Woot! Wooooot!

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:27:04 +0000

That is because the noble Dovaleh Yehudi always balances out his passion for the subject matter by carefully following news from the region daily, along with reading a healthy dose of Israel’s finest historians. Woot wooooot!

By: Dovaleh Yehudi

Dovaleh Yehudi — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:04:04 +0000

Another insightful commentary! This is what we, the fervent and faithful readers of this blog, have come to expect from Dan. My only wish is that he publish more commentary more regularly!
I would have to agree with the assesment of Jewish-American naivete on many issues and fronts when it comes to Israel.

Fortunately, for this Jewish-American commenter, I feel that I (rightly) allow my militancy to be tempered by my simultaneous desire to be informed (correctly) on all angles and sides of an issue.

The worse thing in the world, in my mind, is acting or speaking led by false or misguided information.