Why indeed, Wolfgang. Except that you were using the word as a way of taking a swipe at me. Following me around the Mudcat trying to trip me up is not a constuctive hobby, and I recommend that you give it up.

Tam the Man...

I disagree with much of what you have put here in this thread. Please don't include me in anything you post that in any way lumps all Jews into any specific categories. My criticisms are for the government of Israel and its policies, and those who support those policies. That's all.

On the subject of the person who starte this thread, and in answer to one of your earlier posts, Wolfgang... no, I don't regard the posting histories of the person who started this thread and Levi9909 in the same light. GUEST,Ted DiBiase, Jr. started this thread. Levi9909 posted to an already existing thread. I view these two things very differently, and always have.

I have noticed a pattern with the starting of Palestinian-bashing threads. Almost without fail, whenever the government of Israel is about to do or is in the process of doing, or has just done something atrocious with regard to the Palestinians, someone starts a Palestinian-bashing thead in the Mudcat. Almost without fail. If I see a Palestinian-bashing thread in the Mudcat, I go looking around in the international news sources to see what the government of Israel is up to, because I know it's going to be something bad. And a lot of the time, whoever is starting these threads uses a name, like GUEST,Ted DiBiase, Jr., or some other person's name, and then never posts under that name again. So I think it's pretty safe to assume that at least some of the people starting these threads are in fact the same person.

I don't know what they think they'll accomplish by doing this. It doesn't really divert attention away from whatever bad thing the government of Israel is about to do/is doing/has done. In fact, it actually focuses more attention on these things than would otherwise be the case.