Comments on: U.S. lefty bloggers from DKos, MoveOn.org to visit Sderot, Israel

By: perry Israel

perry Israel — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:16:11 +0000

perry Israel…

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By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:02:53 +0000

Thanks, Harold – I think your idea is worth being out here (for the 15 readers you know!)

I always think about kids and parents – the former arguing the latter trying to settle the situation.

It’s HARD, to say the absolute least. Which is why when I hear Condi Rice say that she’ll have something by the end of 2008 I roll my eyes.

By: Harold Thomas

Harold Thomas — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:00:33 +0000

To publish a comment I made offline: I define Palestine as being Gaza, the West Bank, and (I suggested) a little Israeli territory between them that would be traded for some West Bank land occupied by Jewish settlements. I also suggested that both Israel and Palestine could have contiguous borders if they intersected at a point where a bridge crosses a valley, if one owned the bridge and the other the valley.

I agree with Jill that neither side is blameless in the conflict.

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:38:41 +0000

James – you need to back up a second – the folks heading up the trip are from the NJDC – I don’t expect that they can arrange for access to those locations all that easily – as for the bloggers chosen, I’d expect very little of them – they’re firmly in the far left when it comes to Israel – but that works for a whole lot of lefties, just not all of us.

By: JAMES RUGGIERO

JAMES RUGGIERO — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:19:09 +0000

Sderot? …not the settlements, not the West Bank, not Gaza….so much for U.S. “left wing” bloggers…. (not at ALL like taking money from lobbyists!) Welcome to the Independent Media!

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:00:23 +0000

To be honest, Harold, I’m not sure which areas you refer to when you say Palestine but security and economic growth is a two-way street. No one is blameless throughout that region.

By: Harold Thomas

Harold Thomas — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:50:56 +0000

It’s unfortunate that one can be called anti-Semitic because one feels that true security for Israel cannot be achieved without also achieving a measure of security and economic growth for Palestine.