Comments on: Open Letter to NYT’s Roger Cohen – Even Harder Truths

By: Leticia

Leticia — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 04:30:44 +0000

Wonderful. I agree.

By: syed mehdi hasan ashraf

syed mehdi hasan ashraf — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:36:29 +0000

What to say exept that it is good call for justice,hoping the concerned people will give it a thought;

By: mary

mary — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:28:23 +0000

What is radical is not Cohen’s thoughts, but that he was able to get them published in a mainstream newspaper in the US. I have seen a few of them recently in the NY Times, but I won’t hold my breath waiting for anything similar to appear in the Washington Post (or the Washington Times!).

It is the kiss of death for any journalist to ever utter the words saying that Israel does not have the right to exist.

If the world has ignored the plight of the Palestinians for 62 years, it is not going to bat an eye if the time comes when the Zionists “transfer” them to Lebanon or Jordan. Something must be done to prevent this inevitability.

By: dolores fitchie

dolores fitchie — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:55:34 +0000

Quote:
The conflict gnaws at U.S. security
Indeed. The US’s and everybody else’s too.
And:
the Zionist dream becomes (as I think it was always bound to become) a terrifying nightmare for all, and by all I don’t mean only the Arabs and Jews of the region. I mean all of us, everywhere.
Indeed doubled.
Dear Mr. Hart. Just a quick, comprehensive thank you. For this site. For your stance on this most vexed of questions. For your courage. For your Hart of the Matter series (even if it came to me over a year after it finished). If I had hand-picked the guests I couldn’t have done half as well as you did.
It’s somehow reassuring to find out, after a quarter of a century of saying most of what you and your guest say, that I’m not totally mad. It’s also incredibly sad. But is good that more and more people are finding the courage to say what need to be say, as loudly as possible.
Be well and keep up the excellent work. By the way, I hope there will be a H.o.t. M. part II. Sooner rather than later?
Salut!

By: Shari Peterson

Shari Peterson — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:00:45 +0000

Unfortunately they were never the original inhabitants of Israel, with the exception of the few Jews that lived on the land indigenously along with the Arab Semites when the Ashkenazis moved in, those that came in the late 1940s to the early 1950s when the underground Zionist movement was attacking Arab Jews in their homelands under the guise of being Arab, to scare them into emigrating to Palestine, as well as the Semitic Jews that emigrated from Ethiopia starting in the 1980s.

Today still in Israel the Ethiopians are treated as second class citizens even though they are the purest progenic link to Abraham. They are the only true sons of that land and so too are the Semitic Palestinians whose ancestors lived on the land side-by-side.

Today the vast majority of Jews identify with cultural and sometimes religious Judaism but very, very few are true ethnic Semites, children of Abraham.

By: Assaf

Assaf — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:30:07 +0000

I don’t see Mr. Cohen’s ideas as being radical at all. The idea to pressure Israel to withdraw to 67 lines is not new by any means. Many in the Israeli left have called the USA for years to play a much more aggressive role in the region and stop its blind support of every Israeli action. I, too, feel the need for a decisive American stance on this issue, one that will coax Israel to relinquish its dreams of annexing the West Bank and thus save the Zionist project from self destruction. But there is a vast difference between calling the USA to put pressure on Israel in order to save it from itself and calling the USA to pressure Israel because it is a rouge state. The former takes Israel’s right to exist as a given. The latter does not even acknowledge Israel has any right whatsoever. America has made many mistakes in this region but its basic policy is morally correct. Denying Israel’s right to exist is denying the Jewish people of their right for self determination. This, very simply, is racist.