Thanks Gabrielle for your sincerity in confessing your limited access to the truth. You do reslise that, thus, you exclude yourself from what is commonly known as competence in the matters discussed here.

Splendidly put Stewart !
Love the logic of ” a few ” who determine an entire “Jewish tradition”. Thanks Raffe for eliciting good fun.We is still laughin’….

Like you Raffe I look to a day when human beings can live free of fear and free of want.

Shalom Salam Peace

Gold starts with claiming that Arab uprisings are for human rights. He lives in the region but is deaf to the religious conflicts and power challenging that is the order of the day for Arab tribes.

Whatever occurred in the summer of 2011, certainly dissipated by autumn. When my wife and I were there, everything was quiet, the shopping malls were crowded, people went about their business, clean and well fed. But then again, Raffe’s Jerusalem may not be the golden city we visited.

And fancy the threat to democracy that a protestor can be threatened with a hiding if he breaks the law. How undemocratic indeed. A true democracy has laws to protect lawbreakers!! Or does it?

And what burning issues Gold deals with. Because Yishai’s failed with bush fires, he is wrong on African refugees as well. So there! And that a member of the Knesset can make a “bigoted, hateful speech” about homosexuals means that Israel’s position on homosexuals is hypocritcal. Why if Israel was a true democracy, no person could possibly be elected to the Knesset, if she or he didn’t toe the party line, Arabs excepted of course. Israel could on fact copy the democracies of Moldova and North Korea and have legislatures that spoke with one voice – that of the leader.

Let us indeed be true to our Jewish heritage and live up to the ethos of “never again”. Let us start by forever eschewing immoral equivalences.

Wonder why the price of democracy is so inflated by unwanted “extras” !!!!