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The Burden of Being Special
Reader comment on item: May an American Comment on Israel?
Submitted by Mark Waldman (United States), Jul 28, 2008 at 10:19
Many American Jews have struggled for decades under the weight of this "you have no right to criticize us" garbage. If you accept it, then Israelis have no right to criticize the U.S. either, but nothing seems to stop them from doing that. This long standing Israeli sense of exceptionalism was always a bit ridiculous, but has lately become quite an obstacle for the Israelis in determining a realistic course forward.
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| Death Sentence [24 words] | Peter D. | Aug 11, 2008 14:35 | 136589 | ||
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| The Root Cause [117 words] | Ken | Aug 8, 2008 10:58 | 136463 | ||
| Ken, Israel an impediment for Muslims [55 words] | Infidel | Aug 8, 2008 20:44 | 136463 | ||
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| Earl Harris, no mister, just Infidel [74 words] | Infidel | Aug 12, 2008 00:40 | 136463 | ||
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| Ready for its duty. [25 words] | Jorge Cordova | Aug 2, 2008 07:53 | 136113 | ||
| What Israel must do. [108 words] | ahmad | Aug 1, 2008 11:45 | 136059 | ||
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| A comment on Mr. Pipes' comments [63 words] | William East | Jul 30, 2008 22:37 | 135947 | ||
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| HAARETZ CORRESPONDENT TELLS DR. DAN PIPES, 'KEEP OUT OF ISRAEL DIALOGUE." [549 words] | JERRY BORIS | Jul 30, 2008 17:39 | 135928 | ||
| Bravo ! [103 words] | Anne-Marie Delcambre | Jul 31, 2008 04:27 | 135928 | ||
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| The Burder of being Special [280 words] | Margaret Hood | Jul 29, 2008 18:46 | 135794 | ||
| The burden of being special "Chosen" [116 words] | Margaret Hood | Jul 29, 2008 18:57 | 135794 | ||
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| My body is where my mouth was. [179 words] | Graham R-B | Jul 28, 2008 09:47 | 135787 | ||
| Who has to pay the price for kidnapping? [105 words] | Charles Oren | Jul 28, 2008 09:47 | 135786 | ||
| Amen! [113 words] | Herb Michelson | Jul 28, 2008 09:07 | 135782 | ||
| Speaking freely and openly [219 words] | Rebecca Moulds | Jul 28, 2008 09:00 | 135781 | ||
| A Global World [95 words] | Robert | Jul 28, 2008 08:47 | 135780 | ||
| An American comment [145 words] | Kyle Gosnell | Jul 28, 2008 08:39 | 135778 | ||
| obvious you are correct [30 words] | brad bucher | Jul 28, 2008 08:09 | 135776 | ||
| May a person living in USA comment on Israeli actions. [154 words] | Yosef | Jul 28, 2008 08:07 | 135773 | ||
| Question to Yosef [191 words] | George | Jul 29, 2008 20:38 | 135773 | ||
| How does one care about fools? [446 words] | RB in Mugla | Jul 28, 2008 06:21 | 135771 | ||
| may an american (or anybody foreign) comment on Israel? [38 words] | irvine polakow | Jul 28, 2008 05:56 | 135769 | ||
| Schweizer's blind subjectivity [73 words] | Martin E. Weinstein | Jul 28, 2008 04:32 | 135768 | ||
| WE CAN NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORIST GOVERNMENT.AND OR HEZBOLLAH OR HAMASS OR iRANS REGIME OF THE MOLLAHS [109 words] | TIRDAD GHARIB | Jul 28, 2008 04:16 | 135766 | ||
| PEOPLE COMING FROM IRAN SYRIA THE MIDDLE EAST AND EVEN EUROPE MUST HAND ALL THRIE LAPTOPS TO THE IMMIGRATION AND FOR THE FBI TO CHECK LAPTOP [221 words] | TIRDAD GHARIB | Aug 2, 2008 15:37 | 135766 | ||
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