<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1480252043220105728.post7081828219884199893..comments</id><updated>2007-12-18T11:45:27.885-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Bernard Avishai Dot Com: Offside, Behind The Lines</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bernardavishai.blogspot.com/feeds/7081828219884199893/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1480252043220105728/7081828219884199893/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bernardavishai.blogspot.com/2007/12/offside-or-behind-lines.html'/><author><name>Bernard Avishai</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12785179301542851440</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1480252043220105728.post-3181048269461457906</id><published>2007-12-18T11:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-18T11:45:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>(1)  You say that "SHAS is a kind of Jewish HIZBUL...</title><content type='html'>(1)  You say that "SHAS is a kind of Jewish HIZBULLAH". I wasn't aware that SHAS had an armed militia or paramilitary force. In fact SHAS supported the Oslo Agreements, at that time formed a coaltion gov't with MERETZ and LABOR, and they also sit as the only religious party in the current Leftist gov't. Thus, your attempt to portray them as some sort of "Right-wing extremists" doesn't make any sense.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(2) You are purveying the old Labor Party line that all people who support the Right and oppose them are ignorant, uneducated, poor people with the unstated added factor of having darker skin.&lt;BR/&gt;I think it is hilarious how all you "educated progressive Labor Zionists" end up sounding like Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus and the other white supremicists during the Civil Rights Era in the US who are constatly warning about the "dark hordes" who are coming to take away the priviledges of the (white) ruling elite, of which you are a part.  You have warned of the danger of the religious sector because of its demographic strength. Shimon Peres' "progressive" brother commented when the Moroccan-born Amir Peretz who is even more "progressive and Leftist" than Peres and yourself defeated Peres in the Labor Party leadership race a few years ago that Peretz and those who voted for him were "like Franco's Falangist hordes in the Spanish Civil War".</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1480252043220105728/7081828219884199893/comments/default/3181048269461457906'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1480252043220105728/7081828219884199893/comments/default/3181048269461457906'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bernardavishai.blogspot.com/2007/12/offside-or-behind-lines.html?showComment=1197996300000#c3181048269461457906' title=''/><author><name>bar_kochba132</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://bernardavishai.blogspot.com/2007/12/offside-or-behind-lines.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1480252043220105728.post-7081828219884199893' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1480252043220105728/posts/default/7081828219884199893' type='text/html'/></entry></feed>