Irshad Manji is a tool.... (Carol)
When asked whose tool you have claimed she is a tool of the Israeli government without a "probably" inserted. What's your evidence for that?

(Michael, I ask for evidence or backup in one particular case and not in general)

As for that "probably", Carol, I find it most curious that you don't simply retract a statement of fact you have made without backup information. Just to be helpful, in the many partisan webpages it is usually claimed that "A Canadian zionist" has paid for the trip. I guess that you simply have read the information there and have misremembered "a Canadian zionist" as "the Israeli government". Of course, it would be possible to read the primary source, Ms Manji's book (BTW, you could profit a lot from doing that), in which she describes her trip, who has paid for it and under which conditions she has accepted. A factually wrong statement doesn't get any better by the insertion of a 'probably'.

And by the way, Guest,20 Mar 06 - 05:00 PM, the "Israeli government" is not the same thing as "the Jews". (Carol)

If ysine ira et studio, you'll find that you have made an assumption that is not supported by the text you have tried to understand: as tools of the Jews, the Israeli government, etc. With the etc. it becomes clear for the normal reader that 'Israeli government' and 'the jews' are not synonyma in that context as you have misconstructed in order to make a cheap point. Both terms are just two of several nonidentical terms like in 'Canada, USA, etc.'

You may not like GUESTs contributions but try to be fair and not to construct something which isn't in a post. Just making fewer assumptions might help.

Wolfgang