I’ve been fooling around with RSS Owl, the new newsreader from Sourceforge. One interesting thing it does is generate an HTML file from aggregated feeds. So I plugged in all the progressive Israel-Palestine blogs and voila! The first Semitism.net Blog Roundup. Click here to take a look. It’s a simple HTML file that shows all the posts to our favorite blogs over the past week or so, in chronological order. Missing from this edition, I’m afraid, are Cal Tzedek and Winds of Change in the Mideast?, because the feeds were down. Sorry - will include in the next one! Here’s the gossip from our corner of the blogosphere…
Antizionist notes is back - yay! Jazzman says he was busy studying Hindu nationalism, and has an interesting post on it. Rafah Pundits has spawned a new site for their off-topic antics. Meanwhile, they continue to have some of the best commentary and analysis around on their regular site. Check out their take on the local council elections.
At Tikum Olam, one of Richard’s posts on AIPAC got picked up by What Really Happened. This generated 1200 hits and a bunch of comments, some of them anti-Semitic and some of them from complete loonies. Richard’s trying to get Typepad to ban the main offender.
Speaking (unfortunately) of hate speech… I knew it was a mistake to reference David in my post on Remembrance yesterday. He came through today with a post on the nonexistence of the Palestinian people that’s not even worth refuting rationally - it’s just the most vicious and uninformed sort of racism. Certain Jewish sources like to call out anti-Semitism in the Arab media - but some of the stuff published on the Jewish side is every bit as bad.
On a more positive note - Mobius is back in New York. The Dove tells us where to eat in Seattle. And Mark Elf is taking on Prince Phillip.
There’s a great discussion going on Israel Palestine Forum. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you must.
So, Blog Roundup. What do you think? Should I put these up periodically? Other sites I should include? Suggestions?
You continue to do great work
You continue to do great work, Andrew! Thanks for always promoting other blogs! I’d like to suggest Umkhalil’s wonderful blog. http://umkhalil.blogspot.com/
Hope this message posts, as every time I attempt it, it doesn’t work.
best, mary (the cutter)
Mamma mia, the url didn’t wor
Mamma mia, the url didn’t work! I hope this one does!
http://www.umkahlil.blogspot.com/
mary
Umkahlil
Ah, thanks very much - I will definitely add it to the aggregator and to my links. It’s a terrific site.
Andrew Schamess
David’s
Well Andrew, Mr Israellycool certainly responded in kind to your comments. I think that you and others like you, should spend more time examining the plausiblity of what people like him have to say. Its clear that you have’nt.When I read comments like yours, it really disappoints.I mean, is that the best that you can do? Very shallow, weightless stuff.
The Plausibility of David’s Weblog
Ah, but I do examine the plausibility of what he says. That’s why I can’t take posts like the one I cited seriously. For one thing, it’s plagiarized from another source. For another, the proposition that the Palestinian people don’t exist is just plain ridiculous. If that’s what you consider deep and heavy, you’re welcome to it. But if you really want a detailed refutation, see above.
By the way, I am all for reading perspectives other than my own. That’s why I actually read David’s blog, and a number of other nationalist, pro-settler sites. I keep hoping I’ll find something that will validate come aspect of their views or make me think about the issues differently. Unfortunately, it’s mostly just empty rhetoric; and suprisingly little of it is even original. For the most part they seem to channel standard-issue right-wing propaganda.
There are a couple of conservative sites that I find interesting and challenging - for example, The Moshe Dayan Center and the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University.
Anyhow, thanks for visiting Semitism.net.
Andrew Schamess
Your Refutation
Having just read your post and David’s reply to it.
I did find valid the things he accuses you of. A bit rough actually.
At least you put effort into the reply and your passion cant be denied.
But poor show Andrew; you’ll have to dig a lot deeper.
Anyway, all the best.