tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post3285566904364425577..comments2024-01-02T02:18:30.960-08:00Comments on Israel Thrives: Volleyboy Accuses JayinPhiladelphia of Threatening His Family (Update)Mike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-77596611991140577782012-07-24T08:26:11.514-07:002012-07-24T08:26:11.514-07:00Suddenly there is an ad on the top of the page.
I...Suddenly there is an ad on the top of the page.<br /><br />I definitely did not put it there and I can see no way to get rid of it.<br /><br />Thanks, blogspot!Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-55017763117015028262012-07-24T02:12:26.452-07:002012-07-24T02:12:26.452-07:00That reminds me of a movie (as reviewed over at ht...That reminds me of a movie (as reviewed over at http://www.bonanzamarket.co.uk/listings/THE-PELICAN-BRIEF-by-John-Grisham-RARE-1st-EDITION-%C2%A0/61513381):<br /><br />/////////////////////////////////////////////<br />Here for your delectation is the SPECTACULAR & RARE------THE PELICAN BRIEF by John Grisham. <br /><br />I wouldn't want to give away the terrific plot in this taut thriller----except to say it has something to do with a bird that refuses to wear boxer shorts----'nuff said. You'll have to read the book to get to the explosive ending----because one must remember---a pelican can eat more than his belly can! P.S.----This was also made into a blockbuster movie starring Julia Roberts as the pelican<br />/////////////////////////////////////////////Randall Kohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06262147784760614189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-24179349789497281142012-07-23T21:29:20.140-07:002012-07-23T21:29:20.140-07:00We'll hook up for a Chinese meal when you do.We'll hook up for a Chinese meal when you do.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-55776735745738281462012-07-23T19:26:24.326-07:002012-07-23T19:26:24.326-07:00Please, no worries Daniel. And no need to apologi...Please, no worries Daniel. And no need to apologize for anything. :)JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-59911584778903769942012-07-23T18:56:12.597-07:002012-07-23T18:56:12.597-07:00Jay,
I apologize for what I realize may have been...Jay,<br /><br />I apologize for what I realize may have been my seeming to belittle what are important concerns to you and to others.<br /><br />I understand the concerns that you expressed.<br /><br />I just want for there to be awareness of the big picture. I just want for Jewish people to be mindful.<br /><br />I appreciate your standing up for yourself against slander, and I appreciate Mike's standing up for you against slander.Daniel Bielakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792786894694523598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-9950438206520588152012-07-23T17:26:16.431-07:002012-07-23T17:26:16.431-07:00I see your point re: molehills, Daniel, but I'...I see your point re: molehills, Daniel, but I'd note that all we have online is our reputation. And when I'm smeared as being the type of person to go about willy-nilly betraying the trust of others (and being accused of being a threat to children, for G-d's sake!), I take that quite seriously.<br /><br />It's setting the record straight, is all. Especially since I've almost kinda sorta outed myself already (anybody who cares to find out who I am can do so with little to no problem), and things like this can, potentially, in the future affect employment prospects, etc etc...<br /><br />Well again, that's why I take this seriously.JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-57163377401674286542012-07-23T17:14:23.200-07:002012-07-23T17:14:23.200-07:00Yeah, that's a pelican. At least I'm pret...Yeah, that's a pelican. At least I'm pretty sure, heh.<br /><br />A friend here recently asked me recently if I miss Portland, and I told her not at all. Nothing against the city or the PNW, but the past decade wasn't too kind to me. This Jersey Guy is very happy to be back home in the northeast again, where I belong, and <i>this time</i> in my favorite city in the world! ;)<br /><br />Anyway. I do miss some things out there, though. Like sea lions out the Oregon Coast, (real) mountains and just-caught Columbia River salmon sold off the back of the Native American fishermen's pickup trucks at Portland farmers' markets. I suppose I'll visit again one day...JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-91384729608971697562012-07-23T16:56:30.195-07:002012-07-23T16:56:30.195-07:00What is of essence:
From the blog Point of no ret...What is of essence:<br /><br />From the blog Point of no return - "<i>Information and links about the Middle East's forgotten Jewish refugees</i>":<br /><br /><b>Moroccan-born [Israeli] Black Panther lurches rightwards</b> (Posted March 15, 2009)<br />http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2009/03/moroccan-born-black-panther-lurches.html<br /><br />"<i>Whatever's happened to Charlie Biton? The Moroccan-born leader of the Israeli Black Panther movement has done a political about-turn. In the 1970s he became a Knesset member of the Arab-Jewish Communist party Hadash and met Yasser Arafat in 1987. Now, however, he would make a good Foreign Minister in the next right-wing government, according to Sarah Honig in the Jerusalem Post:</i><br /><br />"<i>'In the spirit of Purim, I quipped a few days ago that if it were up to me, I'd appoint ex-Black Panther Charlie Biton our new foreign minister.</i><br /><br />"<i>'It's actually not altogether preposterous. Tzipi Livni eminently proved that proficiency in the English idiom is no prerequisite for the job. Moreover, Charlie says it like it is, passionately, from the gut, without pedantic quibbling, pseudointellectual hairsplitting or any niceties to speak of. He doesn't try to be liked.</i><br /><br />"<i>'Golda in her day remarked that he and his crowd weren't 'nice.' Menachem Begin used to refer to him tongue-in-cheek as 'Sir Charles.'</i><br /><br />"<i>'But Sir Charles may be just the man of the hour. After all, <b>the international community seems enamored of anyone who smacks of the Third World, and of any cause espoused with indignation and enunciated with aggressive conviction</b>. Nobody can rise to that challenge better than Charlie. <b>European dispensers of sanctimony, indeed, once adored him, hung on his every word and quoted him with undisguised relish.</b></i><br /><br />"<i>That was during his 15-year Knesset stint (1977-1992) on the Hadash list, as protege of orthodox communist Meir Wilner. Charlie made Wilner's diatribes sound like decorous moderation. Biton remains outspoken, but his message is different.</i><br /><br />"<i><b>Why aren't we aware of his political transformation? 'Who'll give me a hearing?' he rhetorically responded to Makor Rishon recently. 'Our media serves Israel's enemies... They love interviewing Hamas propagandists, but since I shifted my orientation, I've become taboo. If you're leftist, they'll grant you exposure. Once you switch rightward and try to tell the truth, you're blacklisted.'</b></i><br /><br />"<i>Be that as it may, <b>Biton admits he 'naively once believed that it's possible to arrive at a peaceful solution with the Palestinians - two states for two nations. I gradually got wiser.' ...</b></i>"Daniel Bielakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792786894694523598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-13497739277149181442012-07-23T16:56:19.132-07:002012-07-23T16:56:19.132-07:00(I apologize in advance if I am overstepping my bo...(I apologize in advance if I am overstepping my bounds in writing the following that I write, and I apologize in advance if the following that I write is not beneficial. However the following that I write I write with some equanimity, and with some compassion, and with the intent to make things better.)<br /><br />Point one: About the topic of this article: Molehills; And mountains being made out of molehills; And mountain ranges being made out of mountains.<br /><br />Point two: Re: "...[It] <i>represents a willful blinkering of one's view in order to stay with the in-group.</i>...": It's a slave mentality. I mean this literally. The mentality of Jewish people, in general, is, literally, the mentality of slaves.<br /><br />Mindfulness is the key to unlocking the chains. That is: Being mindful is the way to unlock the chains.Daniel Bielakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792786894694523598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-44720677859255803342012-07-23T13:55:19.204-07:002012-07-23T13:55:19.204-07:00In a strange kind of way, this represents a microc...In a strange kind of way, this represents a microcosm of the entire problem.<br /><br />Just as they are afraid of social smearing if they acknowledge certain obvious facts, such as that Barack Obama thinks that he has the right to tell Jewish people where we may, or may not, be allowed to live in Jerusalem, so they will not acknowledge the obvious fact that you have been smeared by Volleyboy1.<br /><br />I do not really know what to make of it. It's a sort-of social-political myopia that we often refer to as Jewish Stockholm Syndrome.<br /><br />It's represents a willful blinkering of one's view in order to stay with the in-group.<br /><br />I find it despicable.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-72793779126365741712012-07-23T11:59:24.416-07:002012-07-23T11:59:24.416-07:00Yeah. As far as I'm concerned, I just felt I ...Yeah. As far as I'm concerned, I just felt I had to defend myself from this disgusting smear. Now that this has been successfully accomplished, beyond any shadow of a doubt, I'm okay with moving on.<br /><br />Still, that apology would be nice. Or at the very least, some sort of vaguely-worded admission of error, or something along those lines. ;)JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-44741893092358870542012-07-23T11:45:22.849-07:002012-07-23T11:45:22.849-07:00This whole thing is very sad, really.
We are each...This whole thing is very sad, really.<br /><br />We are each of us Jewish people who care about the well-being of the Jewish state of Israel and I wish that we could disagree without it turning into a blood sport.<br /><br />Heck, all three of us even believe in a two-state solution. The only difference is that I blame the Palestinians for refusing any offer of statehood since 1937, while "progressive Zionists" mainly seem to blame their fellow Jews for the impasse.<br /><br />What a shame, because the truth of the matter is that the Jews of the Middle East remain the victims of the Arab-Muslim majority there.<br /><br />It's 1,400 hundred years and counting that those Jews have been persecuted. The differences are that, finally, we can protect ourselves and that the western left now chooses to portray Jewish self-defense as a form of aggression.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-25562361083746260302012-07-23T11:19:23.356-07:002012-07-23T11:19:23.356-07:00Fantastic post, I think you nailed it Mike.
And t...Fantastic post, I think you nailed it Mike.<br /><br />And this is not the first time he's done this. Frankly, I am disturbed by how often he brings his family into his (all too numerous) internet quarrels, himself. As far as "outing" goes, I never mentioned anything he hasn't talked about 100 times himself, in public, and in fact his (quite public) Daily Kos profile still contains personal information such as his location, his occupation and... his picture! As you mentioned.<br /><br />These are not the actions of a person who is honest about being (apparently, repeatedly) terrified that people are coming after, and threatening, his family.<br /><br />But I'm finished playing defense here. Which is the ultimate point (the side effect of garnering pity and sympathy from his few remaining friends is another, I suppose) of this exercise. "Have you stopped beating your wife, sir?" He may as well have just asked that. It's borderline comical, and infantile. No reasonable person can look at that comment thread and agree with his ludicrous allegation.<br /><br />I'd demand an apology, but I know volleyboy1 has zero integrity and that would just be a waste of my time. So the next best thing, I guess, is to expose his silly tactics, and make it clear what this bully is all about. The only person who made a threat in that thread was volleyboy1 himself.JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.com