Great comment on the blog of the Pres Minister.

Will you be looking for news and views, or just cheerleading?

The reason I ask is that, for a site that bills itself as presenting news and views from a Jewish perspective, it is very strange that Kesher Talk has not yet discussed the AIPAC spying scandal. The only mention I can recall is an early attempt to paint the investigation as "antisemitic" (yawn).

It is, after all, rather big news when the principal agent at the nation's most powerful Jewish lobby gets indicted for spying for Israel following an investigation that appears to have extended over five years. This is particularly so in the context of the emerging insights Plamegate is giving us into the role played by American Likkudniks in marketing the invasion of Iraq.

Or perhaps by "news from a Jewish perspective," you mean news that Jews would like the Gentiles to hear?

I don't know what D means by saying Kesher Talk is offering "news Jews would like gentiles to hear", as Kesher Talk seems targeted to a Jewish, not general, audience. But if the only reference to the AIPAC scandal is to "paint the investigation as 'antisemitic'", this is indeed quite revealing of the level of bias to all things Zionist.

Perhaps Kesher Talk would consider paralleling the Zealots who facilitated the destruction the 2nd Temple to today's Jewish Neoncon movement for the upcoming KT blogburst?

"it is very strange that Kesher Talk has not yet discussed the AIPAC spying scandal. "

No it isn't. If I tried to cover every single item of interest in the Jewish world I would not have time to sleep or eat or work or anything else.

No blog covers everything. If you notice, I haven't written about disengagement or the divestment movement lately either.

"Kesher Talk seems targeted to a Jewish, not general, audience."

Plenty of gentiles read this blog.

I would like to see a link to my supposed angle on the AIPAC scandal.

If you want to write a piece for the blogburst, you can use any angle you like.

Here's the link to your "antisemitic" smear--
http://www.keshertalk.com/archives/2004/09/no_no_antisemit.html

That's the trouble with throwing the insult around indiscriminately, you loose track. Already threadbare, soon the charge will have no meaning left whatsover. (I notice that you also manage to imply that in your opinion the government of New Zealand is similarly "antisemitic.")

"That's the trouble with throwing the insult around indiscriminately, you loose track."

No it just means I have a life and don't have a photographic memory. If you want to talk about a particular post, it is up to you to supply the link.

I don't throw the charge around indiscriminately - I think it applies in the examples in that post.

"Perhaps Kesher Talk would consider paralleling the Zealots who facilitated the destruction the 2nd Temple to today's Jewish Neoncon movement for the upcoming KT blogburst?"

No actually I wouldn't, because that is an absurd comparison. If you want to write that, get your own blog.

"Perhaps Kesher Talk would consider paralleling the Zealots who facilitated the destruction the 2nd Temple to today's Jewish Neoncon movement for the upcoming KT blogburst?"

Scratches head. But, gee. I thought the Americans were supposed to be the Romans.

So how can they also be the Jews?

The Jewish neo-cons are hardly the Romans.

They are godless messianists.

I hope your blogburst will not be focused on how others harmed us or how we should be stronger politically or physically. I think that is missing the point of Tisha B' Av.

We have failed spiritually and morally before, we are surely doing so today.

Sometimes we have ourselves to blame.

I would be curious to know how you see the Zealots of the 2nd Temple, and what lesson you learn from them, if any.

You know, Judith put out an open call for posts for the blogburst. The focus will be on whatever people choose to write about within the theme of the blogburst.

You want to write a post about your opinion, feel free. The rest of us are going to write what we think, not what you want us to write.

No Meryl,

Read the comments in their entirety, you will see Judith declined my idea.

That is her right, but don't tell me the blogburst is "whatever people choose to write about"

That's just not accurate.

Then "Tisha B'Av: its rituals and many meanings" doesn't mean what I think it means?

Please.

Let's not talk about accuracy when you attempt to change the meaning of my quote by not finishing the quoted sentence: "Whatever people choose to write about WITHIN THE THEME OF THE BLOGBURST."

I was wrong, according to Judith's quote above. Or does "many meanings" not mean whatever you want it to mean?

If that isn't a broad enough mandate, you are impossible to please.

Oy - it is just as I feared.

It is not a blog burst. It is a ZOG burst.

"It is not a blog burst. It is a ZOG burst."

Okay, Kelsey, that's it. You're out of here.

Isn't this kelsey person entitled to his own opinions? He seems thoughtful, with good, complex, nuanced ways of looking at things. Is this any reason to bounce a guy from a discussion?

ttp://cleave.blogs.com/summer/

Please get the word out to the pro Isreal blog community that there are some hard core anti Isreal blogs coming from the Presbytarian Church that should be read and commented on by us.

http://cleave.blogs.com/summer/

Please help us to speak out at these Pro Pal terror blogs.
It is time to be heard.

Chanita, he's been acting troll-like on several blogs besides this one. "ZOG" is an antisemitic trope. That's not nuanced thoughtful commentary. I gave him a lot of rope for a long time.