Guardian readers appear not to be able to read


By Stephen Pollard
March 19, 2010
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Hardly a surprise that my Guardian article has led to the usual stuff on the comments section.

But what's always so frustrating with this type of thing - but again, not a surprise - is that the angriest commenters rarely read what the piece
says or, perhaps still more important, what it does not.

I am accused of defending the settlements and Israeli building in East Jerusalem. Where though? You will not find a word of that from me, anywhere, in any piece, ever. Because I don't defend them. I think the settlements are wrong morally, politically and practically, and I would to like to see some form of international protectorate over Jerusalem.
And I've written that many times.

But the piece wasn't a vehicle for me to spout such views; it was a piece in which I offer my views over the context of this crisis, and what lies behind it.

Still, I never expected anything else from the anti-Zionists, anti-Israeli brigade or whatever they choose to call themselves.

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Jonathan Hoffman

19 March, 2010 - 14:05

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CiFWatch.com documents innumerable examples of this. As have I:

http://www.zionismontheweb.org/CommentIsFree_ParliamentASCttee_July08.pd...

"anti-Zionists, anti-Israeli brigade or whatever they choose to call themselves."

Very diplomatic - a somewhat murkier word is appropriate for many of the CIF regulars.


moshetzarfati2

22 March, 2010 - 16:32

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Hang on, Stephen. You think settlements are "morally wrong politically and practically and that Jerusalem should be under some kind of an international protectorate"? Doesn't that place you among the ranks of the non-, anti- and post-Zionist JfJfP and IJV?
I agree with you on the settlements, but Jerusalem should be divided between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

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