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The Palestinians' time is running out
By Bradley Burston
Tags: Israel, palestinians, Nakba 

For my Palestinian friends, with sadness:

I understand why you long ago came to believe that time was on your side. I understand the many factors, demographic, cultural, historic, geo-political, which have served to reinforce that belief, the strong conviction that Palestinian statehood was inevitable, inalienable - in every sense, a matter of time.


I understand why you have come to believe that the state of Israel is merely the latest in a long series of fleeting colonial episodes, that its roots are elsewhere, its strength is illusory, its endurance eroded, its spirit broken, its future dim. I understand that you believe you can wait these people out, wear them down, outfight them and out-believe them and out-populate them and, in the end, take them over.


I understand that you believe that rockets and mortars from the north, south, east, and, eventually, west, can depopulate and peel back and obliterate the borders of pre-1967 Israel until there will be no need to agree to a Jewish state on those borders, no need to compromise on refugees, Jerusalem, settlements, no need to talk, no need for self-scrutiny and reconsideration, no need to bend.

I understand that you believe that this is your right, religiously, morally, politically. I understand why you believe that you can wait.

But this month, three generations since 1948, since your Nakba, this is what I ask you to consider:

Your time is running out.

If you do not begin to act with all of your wisdom in moving toward statehood, you run the risk of becoming the Kurds of the Mediterranean basin, the Native Americans of the Middle East, permanently stateless, eternally denied.

If you do not begin to rethink the course which the Palestinian national movement has taken, you must begin to consider the idea of a world without a Palestine. The world is beginning to feel more and more comfortable with that possibility, and it is time for you to think hard about the reasons why.

We in the post-modern West have spent years educating ourselves to believe that all cultures are equally valid - with the possible exception, of course, of our own. We have taken it on faith that to criticize the culture of an indigenous people is obscenely imperialist, paternalist.

In short, we gave you a pass. And we encouraged you to give yourselves one. In respecting you for your steadfastness, we refrained from calling you on your passivity. In accepting and amplifying your contentions as to Israel's acts of wrongdoing, we chose not to hold you accountable for your own, or to explain them away as a function of occupation.

You learned, over time, to hold Israel responsible for the whole of your plight. You learned, over time, to ignore, explain away, blame entirely on Israel, or otherwise deny the ways in which your actions and, in particular, your passivity, have deepened and fostered your misery. You learned to excuse your leaders their corruption, and their policy of foiling Israeli and foreign attempts to improve your conditions. You learned to excuse your Arab brothers their duplicity and their lip service and their exploitation and their cold shoulder and their contempt and their consummate failure to come to your aid.

In the process, you may have grown accustomed to a definition of time, and of indigenous peoples, that bears re-examination. There is, first of all, this:

The Jews are an indigenous people here, no less than you.

The Jews have every right to have a nation here, no less than you.

The Jews are stubborn and proud and fundamentally fierce as hell, no less than you.

You have dismissed the Jews as a foreign influence. You have dismissed their history, waved away their blood and sinew tie to Jerusalem, acted as though they have no business here but evil.

But in the decades you have spent misleading yourself about the true nature of the culture and the origins of the Jews, generation upon generation of Jews has been born here. They are natives. They are not going anywhere. And even the leftists among them are willing to die in defense of staying on this soil.

Worse, perhaps, is the way in which you took deadly aim at the concept of land for peace, and destroyed it, perhaps for all time. Your artful justifications of using Gaza settlement ruins for Qassam launchers wash with no one. You have justified every last claim and prediction of the Israeli right. You have lost immeasurable international support. You are looked upon abroad as polarized to the heart, paralyzed by internal strife, and unable to arrive at, abide by, or implement decisions.

Your unfortunate ally Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, rising to your defense, marked the anniversary by telling you that Israel "has reached the end like a dead rat after being slapped by the Lebanese" and tha "Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken."

Your unfortunate ally Osama Bin Laden told you last week that Israel's 60th anniversary was "evidence that Palestine is our land, and the Israelis are invaders and occupiers who should be fought."

"We will continue, God permitting, the fight against the Israelis and their allies ... and will not give up a single inch of Palestine as long as there is one true Muslim on earth."

What your unfortunate allies are saying is that it is more important to eliminate the Jewish state than it is to create a Palestinian one.

For this entire decade, the Palestinian national movement has acted accordingly. At the same time, it has effectively done the bidding of the Israeli right, doing everything in its power to raise the status of the settlers from an unruly, unfocused, marginalized, declining entity to that of a prophetic force.

Thanks in no small part to you, the settlement movement is flourishing as never before, confident that your rockets and your rhetoric will see to it that, as the years and generations pass, the settlers will come to be seen as, yes, indigenous.

The settlers will never be able to repay their debt to you.

You may have noted that in the wake of the second intifada, hundreds of suicide bombings in Israel's main cities, and thousands of Qassams, mortar shells and Katyushas, the Israeli left is furious with you, the Israeli center wants never to hear from you again, and only the Israeli right is delighted with the decisions you have made and the actions you have undertaken.

You may conclude from this that the left were untrustworthy to begin with, and all Israelis are the same.

Or you might think twice.

True, Israel was once isolated, stigmatized, universally condemned, boycotted. But your actions, and those of Bin Laden and Iran, have effectively welcomed Israel into the good graces of a range of countries which have begun to think twice about you. And have ceased to care about you. No country in the world - Israel included - has cried wolf more often in the past than you have. Now, when your distress is truly worse than ever, the cry has fallen on deaf - or hostile - ears.

We in the media coddled you, supported you, cast you as the noble underdog. In response, you decided that the Jews control the media, take Israel's side, slander the cause of Palestine.

Look again.

Your celebration of terror has alienated many of your closest friends.

You did this. You. No one else. You have convinced exactly those Israelis who were willing to trade the West Bank for peace, that this would be a literally fatal error.

Last month, as if to remove the remainder of doubt, the veteran Palestinian Authority Representative in Lebanon, Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, told a Lebanese television station, "Let me tell you, when the ideology of Israel collapses, and we take, at least, Jerusalem, the Israeli ideology will collapse in its entirety, and we will begin to progress with our own ideology, Allah willing, and drive them out of all of Palestine."

You owe your children more than this. You owe your children more than pipedreams, nightmares, threats and delusions. You owe them more than victim status. You owe your children, and theirs, more than a culture of failure and passivity and graft and violence and loss. You owe your children and theirs - and ours - an honest search for peace.

Or would you rather that I simply shut up? Just the rantings of
another untrustworthy Jew? Still want to believe you did everything
right? Still want to believe that your few friends remaining in the
Western left are more than just powerless cranks? Still want to
believe that if you hold out long enough, everything will come your
way?

As you wish.

Perhaps regrettably for both sides, we can wait.


_______________


Previous blogs:


We owe the Palestinians a state
Sixty years of Nakba, 60 years of nothing
Our Defense Forces, our war crimes, our terrorism
For our worst enemy, Hamas, just two words
The New 12 Tribes of Israel
A place at the table
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Terrorist donuts
U.S. Arabs irate over criticism of celebrity cook's kaffiyeh.
All the way to hell
Rosner's blog: It's Obama's good intentions that pro-Israel activists fear.
  1.   Predictable, Perennial "Even Handedness" 16:23  |  dyinglikeflies 20/05/08
  2.   #Clckfool,Lakshmi ,Durson,Indrayaya,Dutch,and some others. (1) 16:40  |  Jan Vlaming 20/05/08
  3.   #Clckfool,Lakshmi ,Durson,Indrayaya,Dutch,and some others. (2) 16:41  |  Jan Vlaming 20/05/08
  4.   Mr. Burston 17:40  |  a wandering Jew 20/05/08
  5.   Brilliant 18:17  |  Choni Davidowitz 20/05/08
  6.   Invitation Accepted #1 19:02  |  Knott Bushman 20/05/08
  7.   No 6 Knott Bushman 19:39  |  a wandering Jew 20/05/08
  8.   "Or would you rather that I simply shut up?" 20:09  |  Yisrael 20/05/08
  9.   #6-Here the Palestinians are settlers too 20:26  |  dyinglikeflies 20/05/08
  10.   Wow,slowly but surely reality hits Burstein hard between the eyes 20:42  |  Genuine Tosefta 20/05/08
  11.   Is this Burstein`s Good Bye from Haaretz? 20:44  |  Genuine Tosefta 20/05/08
  12.   Burstein writes as if Arabs were not like this forever 20:51  |  Genuine Tosefta 20/05/08
  13.   The problem is Israeli rejectionism 22:10  |  Ibrahim 20/05/08
  14.   A slap into the face 22:47  |  Zbynek 20/05/08
  15.   #Clckfool,Lakshmi ,Durson,Indrayaya,Dutch,and some others. (3) 22:58  |  Jan Vlaming 20/05/08
  16.   Is this a joke? 23:03  |  Jesse 20/05/08
  17.   European Jews are not indigeonous to Palestine 23:42  |  Denise 20/05/08
  18.   Rejecting Quassam Rockets Aimed At Civilians is Not a Problem 00:19  |  JP 21/05/08
  19.   Where`s the oil money? 00:34  |  a wandering Jew 21/05/08
  20.   No Jesse - This no joke at all 00:40  |  Elihu 21/05/08
  21.   "Palestinian" claim on Judea & Samaria is from thin air and I`m . 01:16  |  Chaim 21/05/08
  22.   To Jesse #11 01:25  |  Manu 21/05/08
  23.   to Ibrahim #8 01:30  |  Manu 21/05/08
  24.   Where`s the oil money? 01:56  |  a wandering Jew 21/05/08
  25.   Elihu from Efrat 03:01  |  Jesse 21/05/08
  26.   #17 Denise, Do you also want to burn books? 03:53  |  free thinker 21/05/08
  27.   Burston - patronizing, arrogant, deluded 04:42  |  Grif 21/05/08
  28.   Denise, I am a European Jew and the most secular 05:00  |  Bruce 21/05/08
  29.   Denise, PS 05:04  |  Bruce 21/05/08
  30.   Bradley Burston, I see your "horse is getting tired" 05:07  |  Bruce 21/05/08
  31.   To dyinglikeflies 05:08  |  Daniel 21/05/08
  32.   Ibrahim, who are the loud Palestinians? 05:19  |  Bruce 21/05/08
  33.   In a 100 years the BB descendants would say the same to 06:11  |  Joseph . E 21/05/08
  34.   The louder the Palestinians tell you one thing 07:50  |  x-ray 21/05/08
  35.   `European Jews`? 08:14  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 21/05/08
  36.   LOL 09:06  |  Jack 21/05/08
  37.   Sad But True 10:38  |  ERSB 21/05/08
  38.   Daniel, #31- Sometimes Things Aren`t "Even" 11:07  |  dyinglikeflies 21/05/08
  39.   ERSB and the leftists 11:08  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 21/05/08
  40.   Palestine Fading. 11:30  |  mike davis 21/05/08
  41.   Jessie: It`s not a joke: it`s a tactic #16 (2nd time Haaretz) 11:33  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 21/05/08
  42.   indigenous borned outside? 12:43  |  Manolo 21/05/08
  43.   Brilliant article 12:45  |  ScotGuy 21/05/08
  44.   the oil money paid the gulf war bill 13:08  |  Manolo 21/05/08
  45.   No.44 Manlo---- An Arab Solution, Not Israeli 13:54  |  a wandering Jew 21/05/08
  46.   Well lManolo, none of the Palestinian leaders 14:37  |  bleeeeehhhhhhhhh 21/05/08
  47.   Comparing with the Native Americans 15:25  |  Nabil 21/05/08
  48.   From census came the truth 15:28  |  Manolo peaceful man 21/05/08
  49.   wandering jew, better to still and think 15:48  |  Manolo 21/05/08
  50.   Fatal OMMISSION 15:49  |  B 21/05/08
  51.   Numbers without meaning?? 15:52  |  a wandering Jew 21/05/08
  52.   No. 49 Sorry, i have to make a living. 16:05  |  a wandering Jew 21/05/08
  53.   European Jews 16:14  |  Hardliner 21/05/08
  54.   Accept bantustans ? 16:31  |  Truth 21/05/08
  55.   Cortez from Hamas?? 16:51  |  ScotGuy 21/05/08
  56.   Partial truth 17:35  |  x-ray 21/05/08
  57.   Native Americans 18:11  |  Robert Haymond 21/05/08
  58.   it`s already too late because of the settlers not the palestinian 18:45  |  cristina 21/05/08
  59.   Response to Ibrahim 19:42  |  Israeli 21/05/08
  60.   I have long suspected that Bradley is either bipolar ... 20:04  |  Diane 21/05/08
  61.   finally.... 22:10  |  TAZ 21/05/08
  62.   poster that blame Israel for their problems and the "PALS" 22:15  |  TAZ 21/05/08
  63.   Burston`s changed his tune? 00:06  |  Michael Greeberg 22/05/08
  64.   Cristina it pays to do some research and not to lie 00:11  |  x-ray 22/05/08
  65.   A genuine two-state solution proposal 01:12  |  Manu 22/05/08
  66.   Americas, Australia, NZ, South Africa all have 1-state solutions 01:37  |  US=1 State Solution 22/05/08
  67.   How can Israel be 8 miles wide? Who would ever 03:04  |  JJ 22/05/08
  68.   64. It is false to equate all scenarios as the same 03:38  |  JJ 22/05/08
  69.   oops that should read (reply to 65) not 64. nm 03:55  |  JJ 22/05/08
  70.   Response to Manu?s 2 state solution 05:37  |  J 22/05/08
  71.   Cultural Marxism 08:40  |  Kafir 22/05/08
  72.   Israeli time almost over 10:00  |  Jamie 22/05/08
  73.   The Palestinians time is running out 11:20  |  Johannes D. Schultz- 22/05/08
  74.   #47 Excuse Me Nabil 11:23  |  Tim R 22/05/08
  75.   From NU and British Mandate authority 11:41  |  Manolo peaceful man 22/05/08
  76.   What figures probe 11:50  |  Manolo peaceful man 22/05/08
  77.   Regards to Sean Connery 12:08  |  Manolo peaceful man 22/05/08
  78.   xray, what `arab states` you meaning 12:15  |  Manolo peaceful man 22/05/08
  79.   hunting xray liars 12:29  |  Manolo peaceful man 22/05/08
  80.   Manu declares pre war? 12:39  |  Manolo peaceful man 22/05/08
  81.   Manolo - do you read the rubbish you write? 14:31  |  ScotGuy 22/05/08
  82.   Woww, that`s it Woww! 15:21  |  Buzaglow 22/05/08
  83.   Answering scot askings... 16:14  |  Manolo peaceful man 22/05/08
  84.   No. 75 --------Manolo 16:53  |  a wandering Jew 22/05/08
  85.   You are wrong 17:23  |  Mike 22/05/08
  86.   to 35 00:24  |  Anthony 23/05/08
  87.   I disagree. 03:14  |  A Concerned Human 23/05/08
  88.   #72 Jamie. Israel`s future shines bright as the sun. 04:30  |  Chaim 23/05/08
  89.   X ray and propoganda 06:55  |  Truth 23/05/08
  90.   What is this artical about 08:26  |  Ron 23/05/08
  91.   #87 - what is the triumph of injustice? 09:36  |  Joe Sittizen 23/05/08
  92.   bradley they ran out of time in 2000 with arafat 09:53  |  victor hardman 23/05/08
  93.   On comparing notes with Native Americans 10:31  |  Clickfool 23/05/08
  94.   Manolo - Arabs offering recognition 10:36  |  x-ray 23/05/08
  95.   Bradley right and Bradley (very) wrong....... 10:36  |  Swiss (Dino) 23/05/08
  96.   A lot of finger wagging at the Palestinians, Bradley 10:41  |  Clickfool 23/05/08
  97.   nabil #47 vs Tim R #74 - mixing the historical parallels 10:45  |  dana 23/05/08
  98.   You must be joking Bradley, these folks are incapapble. 10:48  |  Harvey (Chaim) 23/05/08
  99.   Mr. Burston you owe me an apology. I 11:10  |  Steve the Pals. 23/05/08
  100.   Wha have more kids than who? 11:11  |  Manolo 23/05/08
  101.   clickfool the bigot 11:17  |  darcy 23/05/08
  102.   What a cynic you are Clickfool 96, get a life Sir. 11:23  |  Harvey (Chaim) 23/05/08
  103.   More like Black South Africans 11:24  |  Hammam 23/05/08
  104.   Israel founded a nation, thanks in part to "terrorism" 11:45  |  Natallie Durson 23/05/08
  105.   to Margie #39 - leftists in the White House 11:54  |  zeev 23/05/08
  106.   Remember late Abba Evan used to say 11:56  |  Manolo 23/05/08
  107.   To Brad Burston P1 12:04  |  TonyL 23/05/08
  108.   To Brad Burston P2 12:05  |  TonyL 23/05/08
  109.   none of the two are indigenous to the land & it`s not the point - 12:07  |  ivo 23/05/08
  110.   Arafat: "they tried to fool me at Camp David" 12:14  |  Manolo 23/05/08
  111.   Judging from this forum, the real Palestinian homeland is Ontario 12:15  |  Freethinker 23/05/08
  112.   Our patience has no end!! 12:24  |  hassan 23/05/08
  113.   Mr. Burston 12:40  |  Baruch 23/05/08
  114.   to Chaim #88 - out of his head 13:14  |  zeev 23/05/08
  115.   Oh, spare us, Nutalie 13:19  |  Linichka 23/05/08
  116.   Yes, indeed you speak as Chosen Ones 13:19  |  El-Birawi 23/05/08
  117.   ismael haniyas motorcade is longer than yasser arafat`s was 13:25  |  no corruption here 23/05/08
  118.   Mr. Burston, you speak as "Chosen Ones" 13:28  |  El-Birawi 23/05/08
  119.   Truth - Arabs offering recognition 13:35  |  x-ray 23/05/08
  120.   "I will fight no more forever"- Chief Dan Joseph 13:35  |  Lynn 23/05/08
  121.   Some truth to it but only half the truth 13:39  |  just a jew 23/05/08
  122.   # 93 Clicky and the writing on the wall 13:44  |  Lynn 23/05/08
  123.   # 110 El Birawi......we really are getting tired of hearing it 14:09  |  Lynn 23/05/08
  124.   # 105 hassan..."we will never accept a racist 14:12  |  Lynn 23/05/08
  125.   to Israeli #59 14:19  |  zeev 23/05/08
  126.   to darcy #101 - badly informed 14:21  |  zeev 23/05/08
  127.   #114 Zeev. There you go again quoting biased sources and spouting 14:21  |  Chaim 23/05/08
  128.   Hardline-You do NOT know the facts 14:23  |  Arthur 23/05/08
  129.   For Harvey (Chaim) # 102 14:29  |  Clickfool 23/05/08
  130.   If Pals wait,at best they will get binational state on West Bank 14:34  |  Sam 23/05/08
  131.   Manolo - I was censored 14:35  |  ScotGuy 23/05/08
  132.   Natallie #104: do not ever change the past, right? 14:36  |  ivo 23/05/08
  133.   BLAMING THE PALS 14:43  |  Neutered Observer 23/05/08
  134.   Zeev I`m an Israeli and not an American 14:46  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 23/05/08
  135.   Time is also running out for a Jewish State 14:51  |  David Hawkins 23/05/08
  136.   Durson, From Whine Country 14:58  |  Alex 23/05/08
  137.   there`s no Pal time, never was, never will be. 14:59  |  American jewish man 23/05/08
  138.   Time goes on, it doesn`t run out 15:03  |  JJ burke 23/05/08
  139.   Israel`s time is running out 15:14  |  Tosefta 23/05/08
  140.   #134 To Mr David Hawkins 1 15:16  |  Hastaroth 23/05/08
  141.   #134 To Mr.Hawkins 2 15:21  |  Hastaroth 23/05/08
  142.   zeev the perpetual idiot 15:26  |  darcy 23/05/08
  143.   hassan # 112 In That Case,... 15:26  |  Jeff Northridge 23/05/08
  144.   zeev "the talks were almost a success" 15:29  |  darcy 23/05/08
  145.   to Margie in Tel Aviv #133 15:29  |  zeev 23/05/08
  146.   #134 HAWKINS;what are those HRights people in Israel do not have? 15:37  |  AliciaYasmeen 23/05/08
  147.   To hardliner 15:51  |  Raanan Geberer 23/05/08
  148.   Chaim # 126 Population Figures 16:04  |  Jeff Northridge 23/05/08
  149.   CLICKFOOL 16:05  |  chasaboy 23/05/08
  150.   Irgun were `morals` -yeah! 16:06  |  Manolo 23/05/08
  151.   Christians pals were so scared by Irgun 16:11  |  Manolo 23/05/08
  152.   Manolo’s indigenous theme: a bottom feeder’s first time at the ME 16:13  |  Darth Zaider (Ed) 23/05/08
  153.   Timely and well-said, Bradley... 16:17  |  Esther 23/05/08
  154.   one can argue that bible = myth, 16:18  |  fab 23/05/08
  155.   Dear mr.Burston.before I even begin to read responses,let me say 16:28  |  KATHY 23/05/08
  156.   We will never acept you 16:29  |  Raed Kami 23/05/08
  157.   israel is both reasonable, legitimate, & a fact 16:39  |  dan 23/05/08
  158.   God has given Palestenians one virtue than Israelis and 16:41  |  jaffar 23/05/08
  159.   Swiss (dino?) 16:41  |  Buzaglow 23/05/08
  160.   Arabs surround Israel. Kurds and native Americans don`t surround. 16:44  |  Michael 23/05/08
  161.   # 7 a wondering Jew.In a word well said.And I am extremely.. 16:45  |  KATHY 23/05/08
  162.   native americans were warlike, and lost 16:46  |  dan 23/05/08
  163.   Jews are the "Native Americans" of "Palestine" 16:51  |  Boris 23/05/08
  164.   Jews are the "Native Americans" of "Palestine" 16:52  |  Boris 23/05/08
  165.   Jews are the "Native Americans" of "Palestine" 16:52  |  Boris 23/05/08
  166.   Neutered Observer # 132 What`s Illegal About Them? 16:55  |  Jeff Northridge 23/05/08
  167.   Burston: The right is always right 16:55  |  Boris 23/05/08
  168.   # 10 Genuine Tosefta.Oh he understands it very well. 16:58  |  KATHY 23/05/08
  169.   European terrorists founded the State of........ 17:02  |  Deborah 23/05/08
  170.   Conspiracy theory regarding Slowman 17:07  |  Bursting Bradley 23/05/08
  171.   Time for new tactics 17:09  |  peter 23/05/08
  172.   Clickfool #93 17:11  |  S 23/05/08
  173.   David Hawkins on time running out: an interesting argument 17:12  |  Darth Zaider (Ed) 23/05/08
  174.   # 20 Elihu of Efrat..The Gush Katif And Its Aftermath. 17:15  |  KATHY 23/05/08
  175.   #13 no Ibrahim the problem is not seeing the forest for the trees 17:17  |  Robert/Montreal 23/05/08
  176.   NUT alie Baba @104 17:20  |  GABE1 23/05/08
  177.   dENISE #17 oBVIOUSLY DID NOT BAN YOUR REPLY 17:23  |  Robert/Montreal 23/05/08
  178.   post-modern west. and the Palestinians 17:24  |  christoph 23/05/08
  179.   Thanks Mr Jan Vlaming...where were you Mr Bradley Burston ? 17:25  |  Ugy the she camel 23/05/08
  180.   Israel`s time is running out 17:25  |  Tosefta 23/05/08
  181.   Zeev @114 17:25  |  GABE1 23/05/08
  182.   # 26 Jesse From Comfy Ottawa,Pontificating.. 17:26  |  KATHY 23/05/08
  183.   #53 Hardliner in this day and age this is what you believe? 17:29  |  Robert/Montreal 23/05/08
  184.   #47 Nabil read closer, comments are to me as a Canadian Jew 17:34  |  Robert/Montreal 23/05/08
  185.   #134 david needs lessons in history the mandate was partitioned i 17:34  |  victor hardman 23/05/08
  186.   Mr El-Birawi...speaking about moral,etics...see (2) and (3) 17:40  |  Ugy the she camel 23/05/08
  187.   Time is actually on the Palestinian side 17:45  |  Ian 23/05/08
  188.   What is exactly time running out for? 17:46  |  Montrealer 23/05/08
  189.   Michael UK sings "I am the world" 17:48  |  x-ray 23/05/08
  190.   # 35 Margie in Tel Aviv. European Jews? 17:48  |  KATHY 23/05/08
  191.   David Hawkins # 134 Why Is That? 17:53  |  Jeff Northridge 23/05/08
  192.   I aploud Bradley , the most eloquate 17:54  |  TOMY 23/05/08
  193.   #144 Judge Jeff and mystery of the missing brain (re Neutered O) 18:01  |  Tosefta 23/05/08
  194.   KATHY#139 `In a word well said` is 2 words. 18:03  |  maths 23/05/08
  195.   #95 , Swiss , you continue to beat the dead horse 18:04  |  TOMY 23/05/08
  196.   RE: US=1 State Solution 18:07  |  AA 23/05/08
  197.   Knott Bushman...actually a few went on tour 18:08  |  Lynn 23/05/08
  198.   Jaffar 136 - God has given one advantage to 18:09  |  ChanahS 23/05/08
  199.   On the wet lefty`s dream of "one state solution" 18:24  |  Bob 23/05/08
  200.   # 154 christoph of bielefeld.While I agree With Your Sentiments 18:24  |  KATHY 23/05/08
  201.   Montrealer (from Toronto) 18:28  |  ROBERT/MONTREAL (mtl 23/05/08
  202.   # 174 maths..Yes Josh is One Of my three Brothers.What`s 18:29  |  KATHY 23/05/08
  203.   Kathy hi 18:32  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 23/05/08
  204.   #178 ChanaS good point there 18:34  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 23/05/08
  205.   Indigineous - Are they not Europeans? 18:38  |  Mike 23/05/08
  206.   Actually Israel`s time is running out! 18:53  |  Victor 23/05/08
  207.   # 106 Manolo..On Abba Eban.. 18:55  |  KATHY 23/05/08
  208.   # 198 chanahS-- If jews had 57 countries they would 18:57  |  jaffar 23/05/08
  209.   KATHY--non no just maths 18:58  |  maths 23/05/08
  210.   Re: Indigineous - Are they not Europeans? 19:00  |  Shlomo 23/05/08
  211.   Clickfool, i can`t thank you enough for your remarkable responses 19:01  |  Palestinian 23/05/08
  212.   Whose time is running out?? 19:01  |  Not in my name 23/05/08
  213.   Mike # 205 19:01  |  ChanahS 23/05/08
  214.   Indigenous talk in Europe and the US is considered racist 19:04  |  ScotGuy 23/05/08
  215.   Burston has been showing us his yin. 19:05  |  hollingsworth 23/05/08
  216.   # 140 jaffar and the patience of the pals. Will they wait 19:07  |  KATHY 23/05/08
  217.   Mike #205: may I suggest a few courses - 19:08  |  ivo 23/05/08
  218.   Regrettably, too many fallacies here 19:13  |  Omar 23/05/08
  219.   OI MANOLO, YOU STILL HERE, BETTER TAKE ENGLISH LESSON SEE SHRINK 19:18  |  Jorge 23/05/08
  220.   TIME IS OUT, NOBODY SAVE, NO COUNTRY IS SECURED 19:18  |  indrajaya 23/05/08
  221.   KATHY in Karkur 19:26  |  christoph 23/05/08
  222.   Actually, Raed, Philippines not so rich in Hebrew archaeology... 19:29  |  Freethinker 23/05/08
  223.   Get a life, Clickfool 19:31  |  Freethinker 23/05/08
  224.   KATHY & Margie @203 19:48  |  GABE1 23/05/08
  225.   # 193 Tosefta - Obtuse propensity to discuss 19:49  |  17 23/05/08
  226.   equal rights fiction 19:52  |  peter 23/05/08
  227.   # 181 GABE 1..Nevermind Zeev, Where is that wonderful Ramius? 19:54  |  KATHY 23/05/08
  228.   Tosefta # 193 Related? I Don`t Know 20:17  |  Jeff Northridge 23/05/08
  229.   # 180 Tosefta.Please stop Dreaming.There will Never Be RoR,nor 20:17  |  KATHY 23/05/08
  230.   Future opportunities for a decent life 20:34  |  Realist 23/05/08
  231.   Who are you addressing? 20:44  |  Peter 23/05/08
  232.   Tosefta like an old fashioned vinyl record stuck 20:47  |  x-ray 23/05/08
  233.   Tosefta # 193 "Rights Comparison" 20:54  |  Jeff Northridge 23/05/08
  234.   #215, REALIST 20:56  |  indrajaya 23/05/08
  235.   #160 Michael , Israel know how to handle 20:57  |  TOMY 23/05/08
  236.   # 215 Realist..Speaking like True One For Sure. 20:57  |  KATHY 23/05/08
  237.   I am not a lefty , but Bradley is perfect 21:01  |  TOMY 23/05/08
  238.   #210 indrajaya , What happened to the heroic 21:06  |  TOMY 23/05/08
  239.   Ah, of course, you are addressing the commentariat 21:11  |  Peter 23/05/08
  240.   Jews wake up 21:25  |  Danite 23/05/08
  241.   # 205 Mike - They all are Europeans, especially Mizrahi 21:26  |  17 23/05/08
  242.   All that`s needed for evil to flourish... 21:37  |  Gray 23/05/08
  243.   ScotGuy #206: terminology - 21:39  |  ivo 23/05/08
  244.   # 208 Ivo re: Mike..Good Suggestion and Hope He gets down to some 21:50  |  KATHY 23/05/08
  245.   # 208 Ivo re: Mike..Good Suggestion and Hope He gets down to some 21:50  |  KATHY 23/05/08
  246.   to GABE1 #181 22:02  |  zeev 23/05/08
  247.   Freudian struggle 22:19  |  Sigmund 23/05/08
  248.   # 215 Kathy-- It won`t take that long.Also your 22:19  |  jaffar 23/05/08
  249.   # 198 chanahS-- If jews had 57 jewish countries they would 22:21  |  jaffar 23/05/08
  250.   KATHY #222 23:05  |  ivo 23/05/08
  251.   120 Lynn - The Words of Chief Joseph 3 23:12  |  Mark of Lewiston 23/05/08
  252.   HOW RACIST AND ARROGANT 23:26  |  Mike 23/05/08
  253.   to darcy #142 23:28  |  zeev 23/05/08
  254.   # 159 Buzaglow (yes, it`s me, who else did you have in mind ?? :) 23:31  |  Swiss (Dino) 23/05/08
  255.   Zeev or whoever you are @230 23:33  |  GABE1 23/05/08
  256.   zeev-Pals want to come get you in Beer-Sheva 23:35  |  Sam 23/05/08
  257.   # 195 TOMY 23:39  |  Swiss (Dino) 23/05/08
  258.   jaffar 208 - based on what? 23:43  |  ChanahS 23/05/08
  259.   Tosefta & Jeff Northridge 23:45  |  GABE1 23/05/08
  260.   Jaffar 246 23:48  |  ChanahS 23/05/08
  261.   #247 If Jews had 57 countries they would compete for knowledge, 23:49  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 23/05/08
  262.   to Chaim #127 00:01  |  zeev 24/05/08
  263.   Danite # 238 Get Out To Where? 00:07  |  Jeff Northridge 24/05/08
  264.   Burston Opened His Eyes - Mazal Tov 00:21  |  Rafi 24/05/08
  265.   Indraya, if they can smuggle weapons in 00:24  |  Realist 24/05/08
  266.   How to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory 00:34  |  David Hawkins 24/05/08
  267.   # 220 Gray.: The Evil Gray,Berates Bradley 00:44  |  K 24/05/08
  268.   Clickfool 00:51  |  Yamamoto 24/05/08
  269.   # 218 Danite me ole china.Stop Being so Afeared 00:53  |  K 24/05/08
  270.   Sigmund # 245 "Battle Of The Womb" 00:55  |  Jeff Northridge 24/05/08
  271.   Jesse`s rants 01:01  |  DesMnsDave 24/05/08
  272.   # 246 Het jaffar,What Are You Doing In New Jerjey,Hmmm?? 01:09  |  KATHY 24/05/08
  273.   #187 Ian`s thoughts 01:13  |  DesMnsDave 24/05/08
  274.   So when will the Palestinians disappear Mr. Burston? 01:20  |  Mark Lincoln 24/05/08
  275.   Israel offers no real peace 01:26  |  Patrick 24/05/08
  276.   # 234 Indrajaya Speaks..May I Remind You Indra.. 01:31  |  K 24/05/08
  277.   # 220 Indy....when was the last time 02:02  |  Lynn 24/05/08
  278.   Palestinians` time is running out? 02:24  |  JOhn Mackie 24/05/08
  279.   # Sigmund - indeed Freudean slip- battle for 72 wombs 02:32  |  17 24/05/08
  280.   tosefta "gaza and west bank residents will become 02:48  |  thomas jefferson 24/05/08
  281.   VII. Judge Jeff, the Legal Eagle: Legalizing Settlements #228 03:24  |  Tosefta 24/05/08
  282.   #250 David. Arabs are already leaving Judea & Samaria in large 03:30  |  Chaim 24/05/08
  283.   #186 UGY...I took your advice 03:31  |  Lynn 24/05/08
  284.   # 258 Macky is Back In Town,And Speaks a Load Of Bull 03:31  |  K 24/05/08
  285.   #148 Jeff. Thanks for the Worldbook stats. 03:37  |  Chaim 24/05/08
  286.   to darcy #142 04:00  |  zeev 24/05/08
  287.   to Chaim #127 04:02  |  zeev 24/05/08
  288.   # Jan Vlaming. Life is but a `blinking of an eye,` 04:14  |  Maureen Ann 24/05/08
  289.   to Yamamoto #252 04:18  |  zeev 24/05/08
  290.   Burston`s article is quite persuasive but what we still don`t 06:35  |  Smadar 24/05/08
  291.   Zeev 06:42  |  Yamamoto 24/05/08
  292.   Zeev 06:44  |  Walter 24/05/08
  293.   K #251 07:21  |  Beitcafe 24/05/08
  294.   Thank you, Mr. Burston! 07:50  |  Beitcafe 24/05/08
  295.   Bradley, What do you mean if the Palestinians don`t act? 08:20  |  Dutch 24/05/08
  296.   If a "two state solution" was assumed until recently as the 08:28  |  Roger 24/05/08
  297.   Zeev #272 Countering Zeev`s Demagoguery... 08:32  |  Tim R 24/05/08
  298.   "We recognize Israel`s right to exist as the national home of the 08:40  |  Ami 24/05/08
  299.   Dear Mr. K267 08:58  |  John Mackie 24/05/08
  300.   Bradley, the victim of identity theft 09:01  |  Clickfool 24/05/08
  301.   Talkback a Clickfool-free Zone 09:04  |  Clickfool 24/05/08
  302.   Let`s ask the ARAB LEAGUE..... 09:30  |  Dagma 24/05/08
  303.   "passivity" bradley? how RIGHT you are; and so WRONG (2nd try) 09:32  |  eric 24/05/08
  304.   To Click Fool and Ilk - PA Progoganda and Fact - Camp David Maps 09:35  |  Eli Wapniarski 24/05/08
  305.   zeev you are a glutton for punishment 09:35  |  darcy 24/05/08
  306.   zeev "to stubbornly ignore tha arafat is dead for three years" 09:37  |  darcy 24/05/08
  307.   zeev you are in love with credentials 09:40  |  darcy 24/05/08
  308.   Dutch - What is Meant... 10:06  |  Eli Wapniarski 24/05/08
  309.   #274. You are wrong, Dutchie: We support Israel. 11:04  |  Good People 24/05/08
  310.   Tosefta # 264 You Don`t Get It, Do You? 11:31  |  Jeff Northridge 24/05/08
  311.   What a load of old nonsense 11:50  |  Nick Ferriman 24/05/08
  312.   Dutch # 274 So What? 12:15  |  Jeff Northridge 24/05/08
  313.   Jaffer 12:21  |  Linichka 24/05/08
  314.   Why are Jews and "indigenoius" people? 12:54  |  Marlene N. 24/05/08
  315.   # 265. Chaim 13:23  |  David Hawkins 24/05/08
  316.   Mackie 13:24  |  x-ray 24/05/08
  317.   eric showing his ignorance of recent history AGAIN 13:28  |  x-ray 24/05/08
  318.   Zeev 13:45  |  Yamamoto 24/05/08
  319.   # 159 Buzaglow (2nd try) Yes, it`s me....:) 13:57  |  Swiss (Dino) 24/05/08
  320.   #291 Linichka..re:Jaffar Thanks for reminding Him Which I forgot. 14:02  |  KATHY 24/05/08
  321.   # 195 TOMY 14:05  |  Swiss (Dino) 24/05/08
  322.   David Hawkins 14:22  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 24/05/08
  323.   # 285 J.Makie Writes And Falls On his Head.(Second TRY) 14:31  |  K 24/05/08
  324.   The time for Pal nationalism has run out 14:43  |  Michael J 24/05/08
  325.   Kathy Linichka of course there`d be strife 14:45  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 24/05/08
  326.   # 290 Beitcafe..For Your Reply Thank You.BUT! 14:53  |  K 24/05/08
  327.   # 311 Nick Ferriman...always the 1 billion Muslims 15:04  |  Lynn 24/05/08
  328.   A special offer to Jeff Northridge 310, Dumbov-17 #225, Gabe1#259 15:05  |  Uncle Joe Institute 24/05/08
  329.   Haaretz Why Did You Censor MyPost to#220?Put it out please! 15:12  |  K 24/05/08
  330.   jesse #25 - "gaza is not free" 15:22  |  scallywag 24/05/08
  331.   Dino the Swiss Cheese Guy @319 15:29  |  GABE1 24/05/08
  332.   swiss (dino) - may i remind you... 15:30  |  scallywag 24/05/08
  333.   to darcy #305 15:54  |  zeev 24/05/08
  334.   nick ferriman #311 15:59  |  scallywag 24/05/08
  335.   non jews in Palestine were immigrants too 16:00  |  Dany 24/05/08
  336.   BEFORE 1948 JEWS WERE KNOWN AS THE PALESTINIANS 16:06  |  Linda Rivera 24/05/08
  337.   THOUSANDS of Jews Maimed & MURDERED for WICKED LIE of Occupation 16:08  |  Linda Rivera 24/05/08
  338.   David Hawkins # 315 16:34  |  ChanahS 24/05/08
  339.   Hopefully is will run out finally 16:52  |  Sal 24/05/08
  340.   the pervert ferriman is back 17:05  |  baht 24/05/08
  341.   #315 David. When was the last time British Jews bombed a cafe? 17:13  |  Chaim 24/05/08
  342.   one day ! ONE DAY AS I SAID I WILL HURT ISRAEL & JEWISH WORLD. 17:14  |  Atilla KARAGÖZOĞLU 24/05/08
  343.   Cheers, Margie! 17:14  |  Linichka 24/05/08
  344.   nick ferriman - india, too, understands the sea change 17:19  |  scallywag 24/05/08
  345.   Marlene N., your ignorance boggles the mind 17:21  |  Freethinker 24/05/08
  346.   Burston 17:26  |  Edithann 24/05/08
  347.   #322 Margie in Tel Aviv 17:31  |  David Hawkins 24/05/08
  348.   # 221 christoph....A Reply Just Noticed Yours To Me.(out plp Haar 17:57  |  KATHY 24/05/08
  349.   transfer before suicide 18:06  |  peter 24/05/08
  350.   Edithann`s voodo history 18:06  |  Ramius 24/05/08
  351.   David Hawkins