@ JonF311

Do you think Malthus was preaching genocide? Or Paul Ehlich? Or Zero Populations Growth? They were trying to alert humanity to the onset of a dreadful problem.

At this stage it's probably too late and genocide is the only solution. For the same reason, it's probably too late for American car companies. They should have paid more attention to peak oil theory and less to the moronic American public.

Posted at July 6, 2008 10:05 PM in response to Class Warfare and the New Gilded Age

@ JohnW1141

Remove

Americans are America-centric whenever we travel, and...
...and the ongoing -- and patently ridiculous-- Bush pronouncements that there will be a Palestinian state in 2008, or 2009, or ...

U.S. politicians don't go to these far outskirts of "Jerusalem" for photo ops when they talk about a "United Jerusalem" nor do the tourists who flock to the region

Posted at July 6, 2008 8:28 PM in response to 4th of July on the West Bank

@ NobleCommentDecider

Also, consider what has happened since 1932. Ask yourself exactly how much that dread has influenced the behavior of man.

The way I read history the 50 years from 1932 to 1982 are the bloodiest ever recorded.

Posted at July 6, 2008 8:19 PM in response to Ha'aretz Columnist: An Israeli Attack on Iran Would Be Suicidal

@NobleCommentDecider
Read his exchange with Einstein.

Posted at July 6, 2008 8:15 PM in response to Ha'aretz Columnist: An Israeli Attack on Iran Would Be Suicidal

@ JohnW1141

This is a political site, not a travel guide or a private, family diary. So I find it quite reasonable to put a political interpretation on anything published here.

Posted at July 6, 2008 7:55 PM in response to 4th of July on the West Bank

@ flavius

I've started reading Yossi Alpher, who I didn't know about.

Iraq: the case for autocracy

He's very good! Don't know enough about his views yet to comment on them but he's an original and courageous thinker...and I always like that.

Posted at July 6, 2008 7:46 PM in response to 4th of July on the West Bank

@ flavius

Who are you referring to when you say MG? Do you mean MJ as in MJRosenberg?

Posted at July 6, 2008 4:21 PM in response to 4th of July on the West Bank

@ flavius

You'll find my reply upwind in a reply to JohnW1141. I've finally realized that this format generates too much confusion if one tries to respond to two people with one post. It won't happen again.

Posted at July 6, 2008 4:18 PM in response to 4th of July on the West Bank

@ Bushies

No. It is not possible to have peace (you call it progress) in the Middle East. Nor is that an irrational position. It's a realistic one. I refer you to the 1931 Freud-Einstein exchange on the possibility of eliminating war. These two, after all, knew quite a bit about rationality and human nature.

Posted at July 6, 2008 4:13 PM in response to Ha'aretz Columnist: An Israeli Attack on Iran Would Be Suicidal

@ flavius

Ok. It's a pity we all not like that Admiral, or the one a century earlier who defeated the Barbary pirates. I can agree with that.

But the differences between the combatants and their ideologies remain important to me. I could not find it in my heart to be as sympathetic towards all those German women who were raped by Russians as they invaded Germany as I was towards all those Russians who were raped by Germans as they invaded Russia two years prior.

My position on the Arab/Israeli conflict is that it is a tragedy, that both parties have some justice on their side, that it cannot be resolved peacefully, that one side will lose very, very badly.
For various reasons I side with the Jews and I believe the only way they can survive is to attack, attack, attack, conquer, expand, expel.

@JohnW1141
4 posts. All ad hominem attacks directed at me. Nothing else. Clearly, that's all you've got. Clearly, that all you are; an angry, vindictive, small-minded empty head.

Posted at July 6, 2008 3:56 PM in response to 4th of July on the West Bank