Comments on: How dangerous are these people?

By: Joachim Martillo

Joachim Martillo — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:44:53 +0000

In Makdisi Overlooks US Journalistic Nazification, I wrote:

Makdisi should have pointed out that the logic of supporting a Zionist territorial claim based on the etymological connection of the word Jew with the word Judea would give Irish Roman Catholics the right to steal and ethnically cleanse Rome because the word Roman is morphologically derived from the word Rome. In other words, Zionism is so extreme that it is psychotic, and the failure of Americans to show any awareness of inherent Zionist extremism strips the term extreme of any meaning in US political discourse.

By: Woody

Woody — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:33:31 +0000

I don’t see why it couldn’t just be bragging by the family? As Yisrael points out, there is a distinction between bombing the Temple Mount and just attacking Arabs. It might be more comfortable to say the former and not the latter? Though for some this doesn’t seem to be a problem – I’m not sure if the family you met is ambivalent about the matter or just not as clear as Yisrael.

In any case, it’s hardly an indictment of what Joseph presents because people don’t tell the truth a lot on these matters, but it’s not central to his thesis.

By: Joseph Dana

Joseph Dana — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:56:44 +0000

I clearly remember being told that he was in jail for trying to blow up the Temple Mount but I could be mistaked as it was many years ago. Killing Arabs or blowing up the Temple Mount…. very good that you mark this important difference. Note the sarcasm.

Enjoy trying to distance yourself from this behaviour.

By: Yisrael Medad

Yisrael Medad — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:00:52 +0000

I have been living in Shiloh since 1981 and I find this statement relating supposedly to Shiloh residents a bit unbelievable: “They informed me that he was in jail as a result of being caught walking to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem with explosives in an attempt to blow up the Dome of the Rock in order that a third temple could be built.” There were several Shiloh residents – Natan Natanson, Era Rappaport and Shlomo Levyatan – who were jailed as a result of the Jewish Underground affair but all were connected to attacks on Arabs. No explosives were ever brought to the Temple Mount in that case as the plan to attack the Dome of the Rock was abandoned. I can’t recall any other person resident of Shiloh involved. I’d appreciate being so informed whether publicly or privately.