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oberliner

(58,724 posts)
20. It's not catchy - it's insane/moronic
Sun Oct 2, 2016, 09:32 PM
Oct 2016

And it negatively impacts the credibility of Gideon Levy, as the tweet I posted points out.

The headline you propose is also false (though less insane).

There is no "Zionist lie" being refuted by world leaders.

World leaders attending a funeral do not reflect in any way on whether or not the people those world leaders represent harbor anti-semitic views.

The grotesque and antisemitic comments of Mahmoud al-Zahar (the co-founder of Hamas and Foreign Minister under Haniyeh) that I posted upthread are at least equally representative of the views of the Palestinian people than anything Abbas may have said.

I get that some people like to promote the lie that anti-semitism isn't a world-wide problem (and a particularly acute problem in the Middle East), but one would think that intelligent people would be able to quickly see that for what it is.

Claims that Jews exaggerate the extent to which antisemitism exists internationally is part of the problem.

Yair Rosenberg has the best Tweet on this insanity from Gideon Levy oberliner Oct 2016 #1
I was going to post something madaboutharry Oct 2016 #2
So Israel's international status in no way connected to the treatment of the Palestinians? Little Tich Oct 2016 #5
The headline says the funeral "Proved that Anti-Semitism is Dead" oberliner Oct 2016 #10
Levy refers to the killing of the imaginary spectre of the Zionist right-wing. Little Tich Oct 2016 #11
Do you think that the funeral proved that anti-semitism is dead? oberliner Oct 2016 #12
I suppose that the most obvious interpretation of the OP is unavailable to someone who assumes that Little Tich Oct 2016 #16
Levy is not insane oberliner Oct 2016 #17
It's a catchy headline - "World leaders refute a Zionist lie" isn't as catchy, I suppose. n/t Little Tich Oct 2016 #19
It's not catchy - it's insane/moronic oberliner Oct 2016 #20
I dare say that your POW is dominating this thread. Little Tich Oct 2016 #21
There are still some diehard members of the Persian ulema who want to -- and this is a quote -- MADem Oct 2016 #3
bullshit. Anti-semitism is alive and well still_one Oct 2016 #4
It's a complex issue. Little Tich Oct 2016 #6
Yes. Igel Oct 2016 #13
I don't believe in the all or nothing approach to a problem. Little Tich Oct 2016 #18
K&R Israeli Oct 2016 #7
Tthe title if this OP leftynyc Oct 2016 #8
Levy fails logic 6chars Oct 2016 #9
Denying antisemitism is like denying the Holocaust. aranthus Oct 2016 #14
Idiocy from a vile racist Gideon Levy who incites & justifies terror vs. Jews. shira Oct 2016 #15
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