By Ted Belman
From now on comments on every post must relate to the content of the post.
Comments that don’t relate to the post must go here.
Any person who contravenes this demand will be put on moderation. Also their offending comment will be trashed.
The reason for this demand is so that people who want to read comments which pertain to the post, don’t have to wade through the chatter.
Everyone will be happier.
SEB-
The murder of the Jewish doctors is a poignant reminder of this obscenity, which I commented on to Felix the other day in almost the same words, except that I didn’t say “my people”.
READER-
Possibly, or maybe they have not yet reached the age where what’s going on around them in the international field has penetrated their enjoying more mundane activities. They Will….in time, I’m sure.
This is the most nonsensical statement of all time. Shame on the US State Dept:
Trump slapped 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and 20% on China.
China responded with 20% tariff.
Canada responded with 25% tariffs on the US.
I’d like to mention that Canadian English is the best.
Mexico will respond with countermeasures on Sunday.
@peloni
[Response recovered] Thank you, I appreciate it.
@Reader
Your response to Sebastien has been recovered.
@Edgar G.
I do, too.
But there might be another reason for their absence – the younger people who have to be at work during the day and are still raising families are simply too distracted by their daily life to even think about posting on a site like Israpundit.
READER-
I believe ,TED much older and one of Israel’s major thinkers.-
I think that unfortunately most of our more prominent posters are in their 60s-70s at least. Jews nowadays don’t seem to get sense until that age .
Anyway i feel we have NO young members.. I wish we had, bringing
different aspects tp our postscand leanings.
@Sebastien Zorn
The presence of Jews in just about any group was used as a pretext for the same purpose.
The W. Civ. certainly got back at the Jews in WW2
@felix
The presence of Jews among Communist cadre was used as a pretext for slaughtering my people then and during the Shoah. And the Cheka committed violence against traditional, Zionist, Bundist and other Jews it considered class enemies, as individuals, and collectively. Jewish Communists weren’t liquidated by the Soviet repressive apparatus until later under Stalin who ruled for most of the history you venerate And not just starting in the late ’40s. . See:
“Stalin Against the Jews” by Arkady Vaksberg.
“The first full-scale account of Joseph Stalin’s personal vendetta against Soviet Jews. Drawing on newly opened archives and on his own experiences in the USSR.”
Amazon
I was surprised at how Sebastien Zorn attacked Trotsky by calling him “a murdering bastard” and also very opposed
Now I have learnt he got this idea from the formation of the Cheka in December 1917. This was like a secret service. Every state has them.
I think they had to have it. Inside a few months the Social Revolutionaries turned to assassination of Lenin.
It was Lenin who set up the Cheka. His edict but Trotsky especially would be in support
Trotsky was building the Red Army as part of repulsing imperialist armies.
Many Jews took part in the struggles and also many joined Trotsky especially in Ukraine. Trotsky emerged as the greatest historical fighter against Antisemitism.
I have distinguished myself by emphasising exactly the importance to understanding the role of Trotsky in opposition to the huge loss of Jewish life in the 1918 to 1921 pogroms of Jews in Ukraine and the old Pale areas
Why is he being attacked and why am I for putting forward the truth?
Those truths are written forever.
Who the hell does Ukraine think they are?
JPOST
@Edgar G.
No idea. Well, I am sure he is not a youngster, either, probably at least in his 70s.
REASER_
OK Good reason. .Maybe I am??? What about Ted??
@Reader
So what? And rights of any kind should be mutual and transactional or they don’t exist.
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/terrorism-news/ny-state-bill-protest-with-terror-groups-flag-go-to-jail-for-4-years/2025/03/03/
I voted for Lasher in the last Dem primary. His opponent was pro-BDS.
@Edgar G.
I don’t think that but I get this impression that you are, probably, the oldest one here because of the way you describe your life.
@Sebastien Zorn
I am not calling anyone senile but the fact is that old(er) people are stuck in their ways.
Do you realize what you are saying?
It looks like you are using the excuse of the rules against ad hominem attacks to “join the fray” and keep attacking someone.
It is the editors’ job to deal with these issues, and, yes, it would help for the comments not to be overly emotional.
If you (or someone else) are full of frustration, you can pound your pillow, who knows, it might help.
Sure, and that’s why certain normally acceptable terminology is taboo and makes comments disappear, and there are comments which only the commenter can see, etc.
aREADER-
I think Felix is between 65-70 no more, although I could br wrong…as you could be also.
Why do you think I’m Methuselah’s older brother????
@Reader Are you saying he is senile? Hardly/ There is a type of Trot that specializes in this. This is why they got kicked out of every coalition back in the day. Age is is not a valid defence, in any case. I’m a little sick of the incapacity defence being overused, in general. to evade personal responsibility. Gloves off. If you don’t like seeing him mocked, criticized censored, you can ignore it. Or join the fray, as you like. But, Israpundit had a rule, one of the few, about Ad hominem attacks, and I’d really like tge editor(s) to enforce it by removing such comments. Israpundit is one of the very few sites that does not over-moderate and remove posts. Let’s not abuse it.
Or to quote Marx, in one of the introductions to Volume 1 of “Capital, speaking of adversaries whining about his characteristicslly withering criticism, and at times, mockery e.g., his parody of the title of Proudhon’s “Philosophy of Poverty,” “The Poverty of Philosophy”
“As the saying goes, If you can’t take the heat, stay out of
the kitchen.”
At least Marx was witty.
And for a Bolshevik, even a pretend one, to complain about censorship and harshness to the vulnerable, is frankly risible.
@Sebastien Zorn
About Felix:
1) I am sure that he is way older than anyone here except, possibly, for Edgar, and he has very strong convictions about certain things;
2) He’s been here from the beginning, again, longer than most of us.
The conclusion – just ignore his writings if you don’t like them, you are not required to read every comment on this site.
@Sebastien Zorn
I was asking her to answer Yes or No to my question on whether she saw that comment of mine from March 2, 8:44am and I gave a quote from it so she could tell which comment I was asking about.
I asked her that because she seemed to completely ignore it.
I was asking you whether the March 2, 8:44am was the one that was missing.
Now that I am looking at it again, I think the way I worded my question to each of you was confusing.
proposal to impeach corrupt activist judges – redacted
https://youtu.be/YdbrsUvFISQ?si=wFIvtR7xgMzffakE
@ Reader This is the latest from iron felix zelinsky:
Don’t tell us not to harass him. He’s not just harmlessly harping on his pet obsession. He’s a mimofant.
A term Bertrand Russell coined to mean someone with the sensitivity of a mimosa when it comes to their own feelings but the insensitivity of an elephant when it comes to that of others.
@Reader You said you were asking us a yes/no question.
@Sebastien Zorn
I asked 2 questions of Madeline, the first question was whether she read my comment from March 2. 8:44am, and she never answered the first question.
And I noticed that you said that my comment was missing and I asked you whether the 8:44am comment was the one that you couldn’t see.
I wasn’t discussing any theories, I just explained my line of reasoning in this case which was based on looking at the big picture/ using bird’s eye view of things (wide, not cursory)/whatever.
@Reader So what’s your question? Does this theory have predictive value? I don’t know. Has anyone tried to disprove it? Has the West been attacking Russia through proxies? Yes, obviously. Is that what Trump is trying to do? Doesn’t seem like it. Do countries always act in their own best interest? No. I still cringe when I recall President Clinton’s apology tour over the ouster of Mossadegh. It was one of the things that emboldened Bin Laden.
I think Trump means what he says. and it makes sense. But we’ll see. I’ve been wrong before.
I don’t believe in historical inevitability. even if a theory seems to fit the known facts in a given period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_unknown_unknowns
@Sebastien Zorn (from the shoo-out-at -the-white-house)
The one from March 2, 8:44am is still here – you are not seeing it because you are blocked from it, for some reason.
I am reposting it because your answer had nothing to do with my full comment which you could not see.
UPDATE:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=european+peacekeepers+in+Ukraine
@Reader It was under “Shoot out at the White House” I said let’s continue in Chit Chat.
@Sebastien Zorn
Was there another of your comments addressed to me before “@Reader cont. I should say “dogmatic”…”?
It looks like there should have been but now it is missing.
@Reader cont. I should say, “dogmatic”, rather than religious. I think religion has it’s place. I agree with the theory of “Domains of Belief ” of my old Philosophy of Science Professor, who, unbeknownst to me at the time, was also a leading figure in the NY Zorastrian community, Einstein”s protegee, K.D.Irani
There is a video in 4 parts of him discussing it on Youtube. Religion has its place.
Wikipedia
He came to the U.S. on Einstein’s personal recommendation.
Just google: K.D. Irani Domains of Belief for the videos. Erudite, thoughtful, and brilliant on the level of Victor Davis Hansen. Fascinating.
A chair was named for him posthumously at CCNY. I just took one or two summer seminars with him but he influenced my thinking enormously.
I mentioned him in the past, a long time ago,
Fine. I will place this comment in Chit Chat but I feel it was appropriate where it was most relevant:
I still feel that you overwhelm and overcensor this blog.
I didn’t feel this way when Ted Belman was the editor.
@Reader
https://www.israpundit.org/the-shoot-out-at-the-white-house/#comment-63356000285843
I would appreciate it if you would make such comments in Chit Chat, not in the comment space under the articles.
This is an unfair assertion. The blog has an ad hominem rule which is actually very lax. While enforcing it, I am not speaking down on anyone, but reminding those who overstep the policy of what the consequences for doing so entails. It gives me no joy to do so, but it is my intent to continue to do so as I feel it is warranted.
Additionally, I will add my own thoughts as I judge they are relevant, just as I have done so for many years now. If you think I should self censor myself, I will tell you that I oppose such concepts to the limit of being abusive to others, for both myself and for others. So, please speak your mind, and I will speak my own.
But I would be interested to hear any comments others might have on this topic.
Hi Michael
– Gutfeld
Most of the minerals are in Crimea and Donbas and Putin is offering a deal. If Trump could sign with both of them, there could be peace but I’m not sure how that could work.
https://www.newsweek.com/map-ukraine-rare-earth-minerals-putin-trump-2035902
@everyone here
Quit harassing Felix.
Every one of us has his/her favorite topic and convictions/obsessions which are irritating in their own way, and I suspect that most of us are older than 70, so these convictions cannot be changed.
@fquigley
I know but the only reason this bloodbath has been going on for 3 years is because the West poured money and weapons into it after Boris Johnson disrupted their negotiations in Istanbul by promising Ukraine everything they need for as long as it takes.
Now the Anglos are throwing both Zelensky and Ukraine under the bus to try a different tactic to destroy Russia while appropriating the Ukrainian resources.
Felix Quigley, you are WRONG!! IIIIII am Volodomir Zelenskyy! There! You hve found me out! Now you must send money — much money, so I can buy cocaine.
And I am Trotsky too, so I am TWO people! I have two mouths and get very hungry! need much money! Also, I provide service — I give link to Joe Rogan/ Elon Musk interview:
https://youtu.be/sSOxPJD-VNo
Very interesting interview — tells you how Deep State creates shell NGOs to cycle US taxpayer money back to my pockets. Its nothing but a giant Hack & Grift machine.that driving the US, and then the world, into hopeless debt and bankruptcy. You will not understand this, because you are just idiot taxpayer, who gives every time I demand of you, because I am the IRS (also FBI, CIA, etc.) and you are hooked on giving to me. Ha ha!
BTW the interview begins, with Joe & Elon talking to a porn-slanted AI.
from 2005! 20 years ago during the second intifada. That’s what woke me up! That and Palestinian Media Watch. And they are talking as though this has never happened before. I remember the antisemitism was intense back then. And, in fact, every time the Pals went to war, i.e., massacring the innocent. Scary what short memories the public has. Though it’s clearly worse now, more institutionalized.
@Felix
“Vell, you found me out.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-9EmXwA-VI
@Edgar Naah, I’m sure it’s Hungarian. Any Greeks here, Sicilians, Koreans? I had a Marxist Iranian neighbor who explained how everything originated in Iran.
Funny FB meme
@Felix Are you kidding? You obsessively inject your reverence for your hero in to practically every conversation. Do you listen to yourself? You’re like a teenager who can’t stop talking about his favorite pop singer.
@Edgar
The quote is
:What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is me-own”. Best Cork and Dublin rendition.
@Felix Well, I seem to be in good company. Is there anyone on this site you don’t despise?
Sebastien Zorn
What next? So now I am Zelensky!!!
I have learnt about you….YOU STOP AT NOTHING.
Sebastien Zorn
You are pathetic.
“And he has been given a platform too by the editors on this site
As have you. “Freedom of speech for me but not for thee, eh?” Reminds me of the unofficial slogan of nearly every leftist I’ve ever met, “What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine.”. ”
The only issue is support of Neonazis. You can distort any truth.
@Sebastien
I rescued the comments and made a few more adjustments. Hopefully this will improve the situation.