Joey Offer writes:

"Yeah, but it really bugs me that I can't find the article that "Jeff" cut-and-pasted. I'm sure Jeffy doesn't had the ability to think
on his own, so it must be a cut-and-paste. If somebody knows, send me a link to the source by personal message, so I can replace Jeffy's plagiarism with a link.
I have to admit, though, that there is some good information in the article."

Joey,

Just because someone frequents Mudcat, it does not mean they don't have the ability to think on their own. All of the information that I pulled together for my article was drawn from published news sources. I am a journalism student at Carleton University in Ottawa and I wrote the piece as a weekly assignment for my class on column writing.

Joey Offer went on to say, "there are no good guys and no bad guys in this struggle."

No Joey, you're wrong. The killer who entered the kibbutz and murdered five people, including a mother and two small children in their home at bedtime, is a "bad guy." So too are those responsible for all terrorist attacks on civilians.

What upsets me so much about this story is that the kibbutzniks of Metzer are from the segment of Israeli society that most wants to make peace with the Palestinians. Just as the assassination of Itzhak Rabin by an Israeli extremist was an attack on the notion of peace, so too are such attacks by Palestinian terrorists.

And I know that your name is "Joe," not "Joey." I appended the "y" to your name because you did it to mine in your sarcastic effort to make me look stupid.

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OK, Jeffy, or Mikey, or whatever your name is. But if you really were a journalism student, you'd know that proper journalists are expected to give attribution to their sources. I deleted your article because it does not conform with Mudcat posting policy. If it comes from another source and is not your own work, it must be attributed. If it has nothing to do with music, post a summary in your own words, plus a link to where we can find it at its original source.
Thank you.
-Joe Offer-