"This is a source for the information in the starting post, which YOU have claimed the man could not know because he was a Jew. I hardly think that this is unrelated."

No Beardedbruce, I was pointing out that the man's ONLY CLAIM to expertise was that he lives in Israel.

Here are the areas of expertise that he claims.


Professor HAIM HARARI, a theoretical physicist, is the Chair, Davidson Institute of Science Education, and Former President, from 1988 to 2001, of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

During his years as President of the Institute, it entered numerous
new scientific fields and projects, built 47 new buildings, raised one Billion Dollars in philanthropic money, hired more than half of its current tenured Professors and became one of the highest
royalty-earning academic organizations in the world.

Throughout all his adult life, he has made major contributions to
three different fields: Particle Physics Research on the international scene, Science Education in the Israeli school system and Science Administration and Policy Making.

Here is knowledge he bases his opinion on.

I have never been and I will never be a
Government official and I have no privileged information. My
perspective is entirely based on what I see, on what I read and on the fact that my family has lived in this region for almost 200 years. You may regard my views as those of the proverbial taxi driver, which you are supposed to question, when you visit a country.

He is claiming to know about Morocco and Pakistan even though he lives in Israel.
He is claiming that he knows about the problems in those places, a thousand miles away, even as he claims that those problems have nothing to do with Israel. It just isn't credible. How are Casablanca and Tel Aviv in the "same neighbourhood" Casablanca and Madrid may be in the same neighbourhood. Athens is a lot closer to Israel than Karachi. Is he also qualified to speak about Greece and Spain?

I'm not saying that the man doesn't know what he is talking about because he is a Jew. I'm saying he doesn't know what he is talking about because his claim of knowledge on the matter is hogwash and is not even internally consistant. I am sure a lot of Jews know a lot about this topic. Sharon is one one on the right, no Doubt, Carol quotes a lot who speak the other side.

I you got in a taxi in Chicago would you ask his opinion of New York or San Francisco?

This is what I don't like.

Why do I put aside Israel and its own immediate neighborhood? Because Israel and any problems related to it, in spite of what you might read or hear in the world media, is not the central issue, and has never been the central issue in the upheaval in the region.

I say there is no one central issue. I say, and have said that Israel is as much at fault as any regime in the region and much more so than most. You don't agree, that's fine. But don't accuse me of bigotry. Just like the man who wrote that speech I can read and give my opinion.