Israel/Palestine

LeftishBrit

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14. P.S.

Tue Jan 17, 2012, 06:41 PM

Jan 2012

Because some members of this forum are *mainly* interested in I/P, a lot of you seem to think that anyone who objects to a right-wing source does so just to divert from the message.

As someone who objects to right-wing sources on *any* side of the I/P issue, this is not the case for me. I just think that right-wing viewpoints are intrinsically evil, and poison all discourse! At least if you said, 'Rubin is a bad man, but he's right about Abbas' or whatever, one could begin to debate the issues. But the whole concept of calling someone a 'liberal' when they want Obama replaced by a Republican, support massive public spending cuts, and accept Melanie Phillips' views on Muslims in Europe gets in the way of taking anything else about him seriously!

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Israel's negative campaign against Palestinians is on the backburner, for now [View all] azurnoir Jan 2012 OP

Quote: "The international media and Western foreign ministries barely paid attention to the event" shira Jan 2012 #1

well explain it us will you? n/t azurnoir Jan 2012 #2

The Three Rules of Western Discourse and Why The Media Must Always Blame Israel shira Jan 2012 #3

I take it Barry Rubin has become a fixture at PJ's media azurnoir Jan 2012 #4

Well, a bigoted bunch like PajamasMedia is bound to attract bigots like Rubin... Violet_Crumble Jan 2012 #5

seems a popular site in these parts azurnoir Jan 2012 #7

Rubin would be a Democrat in these parts if he didn't live in Israel... shira Jan 2012 #10

"Azurnoir, are you a leftwinger or a liberal?" do you now or have you ever? azurnoir Jan 2012 #11

Maybe he was a liberal as regards the USA at one time LeftishBrit Jan 2012 #13

P.S. LeftishBrit Jan 2012 #14

When the mainstream left embraces the rhetoric of the far right shira Jan 2012 #15

LB, I think we can both come to agree about this article... shira Jan 2012 #17

excerpts from the first link azurnoir Jan 2012 #16

Both the Right and the Left hate liberals. So? shira Jan 2012 #6

Perhaps you should become more familar with DU's home page azurnoir Jan 2012 #8

What am I supposed to see there? n/t shira Jan 2012 #9

see comment #11 n/t azurnoir Jan 2012 #12