Comments on: Rachel Goes for a Swim–”Necessary Stories” column from The Jerusalem Report http://southjerusalem.com/2009/12/rachel-goes-for-a-swim-necessary-stories-column-from-the-jerusalem-report/ A Progressive, Skeptical Blog on Israel, Judaism, Culture, Politics, and Literature Thu, 10 May 2012 20:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Maltsev http://southjerusalem.com/2009/12/rachel-goes-for-a-swim-necessary-stories-column-from-the-jerusalem-report/comment-page-1/#comment-20155 Michael Maltsev Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:32:37 +0000 http://southjerusalem.com/?p=1761#comment-20155 This is a patehtic artticle about whining on a pool that sits on stolen Palestinian land filled with stolen Palestinian water. You and the developer are equal thieves. Both of you should leave Palestine and go to Poland This is a patehtic artticle about whining on a pool that sits on stolen Palestinian land filled with stolen Palestinian water. You and the developer are equal thieves. Both of you should leave Palestine and go to Poland

]]> By: Clif http://southjerusalem.com/2009/12/rachel-goes-for-a-swim-necessary-stories-column-from-the-jerusalem-report/comment-page-1/#comment-20136 Clif Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:30:26 +0000 http://southjerusalem.com/?p=1761#comment-20136 Here's another tack you could have taken...consider Israel. Remember all the thoughts about how the land was going to waste, how it was a land without a people, that the desert could bloom, that the land should be used? Roni might then say: Look at the result. What is the value added of modern Israel over the land as it was in, say, 1900? There are some who would disagree and that there are other factors to be considered just as you feel about the pool. Here’s another tack you could have taken…consider Israel. Remember all the thoughts about how the land was going to waste, how it was a land without a people, that the desert could bloom, that the land should be used?

Roni might then say: Look at the result. What is the value added of modern Israel over the land as it was in, say, 1900? There are some who would disagree and that there are other factors to be considered just as you feel about the pool.

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