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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
Should have tried looking a little deeper than the front page. They have aricles from Gideon Levy (Haaretz), Eduardo Galeano (IPS), Marjorie Cohn (CommonDreams), and Alain Gresh (Le Monde), among others.
You know, you might be a better student of you didn't just look at the first page of the text and think you know what the subject matter is about. It's one thing to disagree with something written after you have read it, its another to disagree with something just because you don't like the dust jacket. Quit looking for articles that make you feel like you're right and start looking for articles that challenge your preconceptions.
BTW... Canadian Naomi Klein is Jewish.
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By "Jewish" I should have clarified... people who have a pro-Israeli outlook. That is what I assumed you meant. As for having the time to pore through an obviously biased website when I have better things to do, especially when I can tell the ideological perspective of it at a glance, is quite simply a waste of time. Klein's religious background may be Jewish but I'm not sure how that makes her perspective any different than any of the other apologists. By the way, Klein is an unabashed talking head of the extreme left.
As for preconceptions. I went through a very serious, rigourous left wing bent in my young life. I have knowledge from both sides of the fence. Part of having beliefs is having the need to reconcile real world events with those beliefs while taking others into account. No doubt this is one of the most important aspects of democratic debate. However, you have to be good at seperating the nuts from the rational. Maybe I've gotten cynical, maybe I'm just blind, but I think I've gotten very good at telling who isn't worth bothering with. I'm still not sure what I think about you. At times, you seem quite on the ball and you're knowledge keeps posters who are on the opposite side of things on their toes. At times you are a mindless idealogue, people don't deal with you and they instead they work around you. I'm not sure if you've noticed this here.
I enjoy your shots at my intelligence. If I'm talking about McGill as an option I might just be a better one than you think. I have an important summer internship and I just don't have a lot of time to engage in discussion other than drive-bys, which I'll admit aren't very good at times.
Edit: Lanny, did you even read the Human Rights Watch report?