One Canard Down...

[phthisis]

Not that it will matter to anti-Semitic propagandists, but Israel has been cleared of wrongdoing in the famous USS Liberty attack, by the National Security Agency, of all things.

"New documents released this week by America's National Security Agency support Israel's version of a long-festering controversy between the two countries: Israel's

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[batgirl1536]

you're in again. :) sorry about that.

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[batgirl1536]

in response to your last comment..i am obsessed with good food. i love cooking, inventing, eating...but only if its good. i cant eat crappy food b/c i have a sensitive digestive system. but i think its psychosomatic, or conditioned by several years of yummy food

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[phthisis]

"in response to your last comment..i am obsessed with good food."I can tell from your journal and what I can sense of your personality that you'd be that way. It's very cool and something I admire and appreciate a lot in a person. When I was younger, I often went hungry rather than having to eat most western foods, which was taking it a bit too far. But in college and after, I was totally obsessed with Asian food, which I found to be immeasurably more interesting, and I was pretty partisan about it. I had Korean friends train me to make two kinds of Korean barbecue. I also learned a good deal about curry

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[batgirl1536]

im studying for the bar right now. i just finished law school and have one more year of business school after the bar (joint jd/mba). im feeling a little down re: the brain power b/c im having a lot of trouble with all the bar stuff, but im hoping that with a few more weeks of intense studyign, and a little luck/prayers, it'll come together. yesterday was my first "i officially cant learn anything" day, but i think today was better

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[phthisis]

"btw, im pasting somethgin tthat was on the "israeli-arab" community"I do find that fact interesting, but it's something I knew about

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[batgirl1536]

i like your style and rational way of expressing yourself. i have come across too many ppl on both "sides" who just spout the main "gossip-like" messages that dribble down from the top...mostly ppl who dont really knwo whats going on, and dont care to figure it out or read 1 or 2 decent books (or even articles).

im actually pretty confused about the issue, im not an expert, but i do know enough to understand the basics...and its really hard for me to see a single right and wrong answer...

i think that people all around might call me a coward for feeling that way, or a hypocrite, but the truth is that i just think some things are plain out wrong, and some are sort of right, and it all screws with my brain a lot b/c i guess im so intimately connected to israel by virtue of being jewish (which to some is 90% of the problem).

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[phthisis]

"i think that people all around might call me a coward for feeling that way, or a hypocrite..."

Well, I have strong opinions about it, but I certainly don't think you are a coward or hypocrite for not thinking it's a black and white situation. It's not. Not even close.

Certain elements are, e.g.:

The terrorist murder of civilians is wrong.

Israel has an unequivocal right to exist.
Most of it is not, e.g.:

If Arabs can live in Israel, why can't Jews live in Judea or Samaria?

Can it be a legitimiate military act to suicide bomb a group of soldiers on duty in the territories?"
Etc.