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robomatic BS: News interview for Keith & Bob... (523* d) RE: BS: News interview for Keith & Bob... 03 Apr 18


'Fringe' could also mean there ain't that many but they've got a good presence on the web. Sort of like what we in America call wingnuts for no good reason that I'm aware.

I don't think they've got much room on the moral high ground (of Judaism you say? How is that distinct from regular moral high ground?) since it's obviously been found, licensed, and staked out by yourself.

I think it takes more to occupy such territory than to simply claim it. Participate in the argument about things external to yourself. Now back a few posts when I made a mess of a link to the New York Times on Jeremy Corbin, I hoped someone would actually read it, as it contained more references than merely the diversionary and crass mural.

For instance, there's this:

In 2009, Corbyn had described the Lebanese terrorist group, along with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, as “friends.” Seven years later he explained he was merely using “inclusive language,” which “with hindsight I would rather not have used.”

What could be more similar than Donald Trump equivalencing the Nazis in Charlottesville as "good people on both sides?"

Corbyn also met in 2009 with Dyab Abou Jahjah, a Belgian-Lebanese activist whose Arab European League had previously published a cartoon denying the Holocaust. Corbyn initially denied ever meeting the activist, then was “reminded” by a photograph of the two of them together. “We had, I think two times, lunch or breakfast together,” Abou Jahjah noted, “so I cannot say that Mr. Corbyn is a personal friend, but he is absolutely a political friend.” Abou Jahjah was later banned from entering Britain.

There is more, these are additional elements to the mural which bear thinking about. New York Times' Bret Stephens ends with this passage:

Does all of this make Corbyn an anti-Semite? Not necessarily. He vehemently denies it. You can never know with certainty what’s in a person’s mind or heart unless he tells it to you straight. Motives can be complex. Self-delusion plays its role.

This thought was expressed earlier in this forum, and I share it. I think that applies to those in this forum as well.




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