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ddeubel · Joined: 20 Jul 2005

I read a full page ad (I don't know how much it costs but must be a bundle) in the IHT and was just flabbergasted. By Eli Weisel , Nobel Peace Laureate.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1163634.html

I won't get into it too much and always had high respect for him until recently. Did anyone else see it? Was anyone else floored by his utter ignorance of fact and present reality?

Basically he says that Jerusalem is and always has been "Jewish" but Israel has always tolerated other faiths and made Jerusalem a home for the world.

I heard he lost all his money and was penniless (because he was in bed deep with Madoff and using his foundations money for his own personal expenses.

DD
http://eflclassroom.com

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

I like how he tries to make explicity political statements about Jerusalem, while at the same time delcaring Jerusalem to be "above politics".

Anyway, for anyone interested in further takedowns of Elie Weisel...

ddeubel · Joined: 20 Jul 2005

Yeah, it all makes you wonder and also disillusioning. I guess it is a lesson I constantly have to relearn - that sometimes our idols can very very much disappoint us in the flesh. Also reminds me of Auden who once in an interview admonished the interviewer for thinking that a poet would be any better judge of politics and international affairs than say, a baker or a welder.

I've heard things over the years about Weisel but this takes the cake. I hate it when any person reaches back into the past and screams out for religious entitlement. Thank god for Jesus, at least he said, "let the dead bury the dead. "

In the same issue of the IHT as that full page, large print ad of Weisel's words and stupification ran - Cohen had a great op-ed about the need for all parties to think about the living and to quit reaching back and being ruled by the dead. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/opinion/16iht-edcohen.html

I really think Weisel was bought and paid for in this case. There are major inklings to this effect and even proof he did meet Netanyahu day's before this ad appeared. I just wonder how much he got. I'd tell a joke but it would be inappropriate.

DD
http://eflclassroom.com

guava · Joined: 02 Sep 2009

You just did, and your second post is twice as long as the first.

ddeubel · Joined: 20 Jul 2005

guava · Joined: 02 Sep 2009

ddeubel · Joined: 20 Jul 2005

guava,

Thanks for your clarification. but we disagree about what "getting into it" means. There is a lot there, a lot of history.

Yes, I'm the "founder" but no more, no less than anyone on the site and don't consider it "mine" but a community. I put the link here not for promotion but in protest of when Dave's ESl pulled the signature of people and wanted me too. I said no and continue, even though gratefully they put it back in place but in a different form (the signature that is).

I just wish Weisel would speak the truth - he does an injustice to his record and profession that man does have a responsibility for morality and the planet.

DD
http://eflclassroom.com

Jeonmunka · Joined: 05 Oct 2009

rollo · Joined: 10 May 2006 Location: China

So making a political statement is an injustice ! I think that the fact that you could write 30,00 words on this topic is exciting. Breathtaking actually! My sincerest admiration.

Interested · Joined: 10 Feb 2003

Interested · Joined: 10 Feb 2003

Mosley · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Finkelstein(poster child for the self-loathing Jew). Great source...right up there w/Julius Streicher.

As usual, pseudo-intellectual, anti-Semitic "progressive" leftists slam Israel, democracy, freedom and religious diversity.

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

mises · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: retired

Interested · Joined: 10 Feb 2003