tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post2697233033498943650..comments2024-03-24T21:06:57.039-07:00Comments on FOUSESQUAWK: Was It Something I Said, Professor?Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-52865553322615310872014-12-12T09:54:59.093-08:002014-12-12T09:54:59.093-08:00Jan,
Excellent point about apartheid Jan. And to ...Jan,<br /><br />Excellent point about apartheid Jan. And to think that Israel's enemies accuses it of apartheid all the time, which I think is false. There is no serious analogy between Israel and S Africa.<br /><br />As for Sweden, this country is arguably the most anti-Israel country in Europe. I know of no other European country that has as many NGOs dedicated to fighting deligitimizing Israel.Gary Fousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-34554554861640030762014-12-12T09:32:44.083-08:002014-12-12T09:32:44.083-08:00Mossberg's proposal
"...There would be t...Mossberg's proposal<br /><br />"...There would be two presidents, two parliaments, and everybody would have to cooperate...."<br /><br />This is Apartheid, of course. And so this is a big thick coming from the Swedish Ambassador whose country was instrumental in giving resources to the ANC to overthrow the white regime and to take over South Africa, her wealth, and to impose draconian levels of affirmative action.Jan van Riebeeckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05918901638457639191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-34265424464595217422014-12-02T19:30:58.942-08:002014-12-02T19:30:58.942-08:00By origin, this was not a Muslim-Jewish divide. It...By origin, this was not a Muslim-Jewish divide. It was an Arab-Israeli divide. Some of the Palestinian leaders were Orthodox Christians. At this point, there would also be religious difficulties with parallel governments.<br /><br />I think the most workable solution is to put an elite commando unit made up entirely of Baha'is in charge of security in the entire territory of the Former British Mandate of Palestine. All Jews, Muslims and Christians will be disarmed. The Bahai's will administer a schedule of who gets access to what holy sites when, and will supervise the economy. Local production units may be Israeli, Arab, or Other, but the way it all gets bought, sold, bartered, exported, imported, will be entirely in the hands of the Bahai's.<br /><br />If the Baha'is can't handle it alone, they will be supplemented with aging veterans of Gatsha Buthelezi's Zulu militia, which should have been sent to United Nations peacekeeping duties in Yugoslavia in 1990, to stop the white on white violence.Siarlys Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15083839117838391267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-52230031925788035632014-11-27T09:35:24.020-08:002014-11-27T09:35:24.020-08:00Anonymous,
I accept your take on it. Hell, I'...Anonymous,<br /><br />I accept your take on it. Hell, I'll be the first to admit I am a bit nutty at times. At least I didn't act nutty when this happened. The reason is that being a teacher at UCI, I didn't want to act unprofessional and embarrass myself in front of students. Had it just been LeVine and I in the room, I would have responded in kind.Gary Fousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-5683838000802285422014-11-26T17:36:25.366-08:002014-11-26T17:36:25.366-08:00LeVine wrote his take on this incident on Facebook...LeVine wrote his take on this incident on Facebook. He calls Gary a moral idiot.<br /><br />You guys have very different opinions and perspectives. <br /><br />Personally, I think you are a both a bit nutty. But think that it is good to kind of see extreme views from both sides. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-15460262525954226292014-11-26T09:25:40.668-08:002014-11-26T09:25:40.668-08:00Squid,
Let me be clear. My contract with UCI only...Squid,<br /><br />Let me be clear. My contract with UCI only goes quarter to quarter as I am a part-timer (since 1998). They don't have to fire me. They can just simply fail to offer me a class in the future. I understand that. That is a decision I made 7-8 years ago when I decided to get involved. Besides, at my age (69), I am pretty much taking it quarter by quarter now. I live quite well on my govt pension with medical benefits, so my teaching gig pretty much supplies my beer money and gets me out of the house during the week. (I only teach two hours a day.) I do enjoy the people I work with at the office. My activism has nothing to do with them. Actually, they are a pretty diverse bunch with a lot of international experience and you don't see the silly radicalism that you see in the humanities and social science departments.<br /><br />As for LeVine. If he thinks he is going to come after me, he'd better pack a lunch. Gary Fousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-21634159776143846922014-11-26T08:52:08.997-08:002014-11-26T08:52:08.997-08:00Levine is juvenile, as he was frustrated with the ...Levine is juvenile, as he was frustrated with the verbal exchange. He most likely has the students ears in his class and they have to agree with him to avoid retribution, such as the display you experienced. So he has an audience, that in his minds eye, agrees with him. Not so during your exchange with him.<br />Levine has to be very careful about his slander. The fact that he told you that you should not be teaching at UCI is dangerous to him. If UCI decides to take him up on his screed, you have an excellent case for "tortuous interference with contract" in a civil suit against him. Hope LeVine is reading this, so he can construct an apology.<br /><br />SquidSquidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-7030952433320008972014-11-26T08:24:39.237-08:002014-11-26T08:24:39.237-08:00Siarlys
To say nothing of the Muslim -Jewish divi...Siarlys<br /><br />To say nothing of the Muslim -Jewish divide. They seem to have forgotten all that.Gary Fousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-48737322096739171552014-11-25T20:02:36.085-08:002014-11-25T20:02:36.085-08:00LeVine sounds awfully juvenile.
The notion of one...LeVine sounds awfully juvenile.<br /><br />The notion of one territory with two parallel governments is absurd, given the current level of mistrust. An integrated economy would have made great sense if, e.g., the war of 1947-1948 had never happened, and everyone had proceeded to get rich exporting olive oil and running tourist traps.Siarlys Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15083839117838391267noreply@blogger.com