... place. ... http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/books/review/19wieseltier.html?ex=1180756800&en=f0f31a1e47508926&ei=5070 ... I take it we will never hear the...
http://hnn.us/articles/31389.html Sunni Muslim revivalism has a known history – and a hidden one. The known history begins with the rise to power of the Arab...
... From the outset, American Jews have been the group **most opposed** to the war in Iraq. Results of opinion polls taken in Israel since 2003 have reflected...
... http://www.juancole.com/2007/02/american-jews-blacks-fiercest-opponents.html ... But that does not show what you presumably mean it to show. The argument...
... What is understood to be in the interests of Israel, regardless of whether it is or not. ... Nick Cohen and David Aaronovitch, very well known left wing ...
... opposed** to ... Iraq and ... anti-Semite ... http://www.juancole.com/2007/02/american-jews-blacks-fiercest-opponents.html ... though. ... That is not the...
... You duck providing the straightforward definition you were asked for, offering instead mere circular verbiage, and you duck the who question too. Obviously...
... That is what definitions are like. If you want something else please ask for it. ... A strong Iraq was seen as a threat to Israel. ... And a lot of...
... For example? So that says nothing. ... Says nothing? That America's military might, at great risk to it, has twice been deployed in the heart of the middle...
... enough. ... Supporting Saddam as a secularising ruler, as was originally done. Leaving him in place as big bush wanted to to do. Both policies could have...
... Why was that done? ... "...wanted to do" when? Both policies could ... "...on the basis of oil interests..." What does that mean? Open your eyes. Focus on...
... Seemed a good idea at the time. ... He opposed his son's war I haear. ... it, has ... 2004, ... proven oil ... oilmen, ... Because to say any specific...
... What has 'dirt' got to do with it? do you see antisemitism as a forbidden temptation like paedophilia? Do you think that must be the motive behind my...
... Dirty = dishonest, malicious, envious. Gross generalizations about "Israel" and "the Jews" are vile and despicable. Everyone with half a functioning brain...
... Are they any more so than generalisations about 'plutocrats? Anyway I am not making gross generalisations. I am asking a reasonable question. ... It is a...
... I remember years ago Hitchens writing that Hymns Ancient and Modern were one of the formative influences upon him. That struck me as pretty lame. Most...
interviewed in today's Metro:- INTERVIEWER Religious believers suggest morality is only possible through religion. Is that patronising to perfectly moral...
... Presumably the `good' to which he appeals has some kind of foundation in the culture to which he belongs and from which he unthinkingly draws it, as if it...
... All the best Popes were atheists, anyway. Luther's great antagonist Leo X is alleged to have said, "Quantum nobis prodest, haec fabula Christi!" (how...
Dawkins has been asked about Nietzsche. His responses were feeble. http://www.damaris.org/content/content.php?type=5&id=102 Nietzsche talked contemptuously of...
... children. ... Well at least he addresed your concerns over his own unconscious cultural indoctrinations. And you appear to display a fair bit of compassion...
thickers: I can imagine your childhood, I think. JSM: Please tell us what you surmise. thickers: Thus far, I see you [JSM] as a particularly instructive victim...
... Dawkins does not understand Nietzache at all, and he opught to considering his subject matter. ... Nietzsche is not talking about following the dictates of...
... you have ... that ... language that ... phrase ... there ... anything at ... love? ... sick and ... history ... in the ... nasty ... compassion. All ... ...
... When JSM was nine years old he was not exactly a weird chid, naughty enough, though already an avid reader, especially of the William stories of Richmal...
... Re: I never got an answer, lo these many years ago... ... Well, I am somewhat uncomfortable with your characterization of it as a demand. Anyway, I am...
... It seems perfectly healthy and admirable to reject a god who would sentence little children to go to Hell for ever and ever for an eternity of unspeakable...
... This intrigues me. Did you really have a significant understanding of what a leftist or socialist persuasion was at such a young age? How did you learn...
