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Literary loathing
Menahem Gantz
Published: 16.01.08, 16:34
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1. I do hope the Leftists stay away
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (01.16.08)
The fair is for those that a literate, and the Leftists don't qualify
2. So who needs 'em!
Yossi ,   Levittown, PA, US   (01.16.08)
This from people who change governments more frequently than their underwear? (Israel has better olive oil and makes better pizza, too!) And clearly, our literature is better than their literature.
3. open eyes
ecr ,   jerusalem   (01.16.08)
At least someone sees Israel as a country with assets. Thankfully not all the world has bought the BIG arab lies.
4. Neo Left have lost their legacy and humanity...
The Doc ,   Haifa, Israel   (01.16.08)
... and it is impossible to tell it apart from tha Nazis. Under the guise of "human rights" and "political correctness" they are throwing away any human values and traditions in the society they live in and associate themselves with the fundamentalist Islam and its racist doctrine. They promote their international hatred bearing teh flag of anti-semitism, sometimes even led by self-hating Jews who are eager to please their haters, for a pityful "acceptance". Today's Left is hypocrite, hateful, anarchist, anti-social and anti-democratic. It is a disgusting shell of what Engles and Marx had in mind. Calling themselves "leftists" is an insult to teh real Left, it is misleading and let it be no doubt about it - it is identical to Islam calling itself a "religion of Peace".
5. THANK YOU FOR HONORING ISRAEL & YOUR DEDICATION TO RIGHTFUL
MOSHE ,   US   (01.16.08)
CAUSES. MOSHE
6. Thank you Turin Book Fair Authority!
Barry ,   Tokyo   (01.16.08)
a good day for fair play.
7. 20 AND NOT A LETFIST, NO HEARTH, STILL ONE AT 30, NO BRAIN
Jorge ,   Tegucigalpa   (01.16.08)
Not much more to be sais, extreme left are in love with ideas and regimes that are in the dustbin of hisrory because they were a failure, extreme left IS a failure, with one drawback, they do much, to much harm
8. I feel ashamed as Italian!
Mario ,   Rome, Italy   (01.16.08)
I am Italian and leftist...and I feel ashamed! They are so silly! Even if the army or the State kills etc what is the point on punishing the writers! Don't they even think that among those condemned writers, there could be some leftist too trying to give a different point of view! Those boycotts are really silly! By the way, forget about Israeli pizza! The one from Naples is the original and best! Sorry! ;-)) You have falaffel instead!
9. You're cool!
Yossi ,   Levittown, PA   (01.16.08)
Mario, I think I'd like you, you leftie! Israel has camels, and you have those funny little cars. Only Sophia and Gina begin to tit - er, tip - the balance. 8-)
10. 8...
truth strikes again   (01.16.08)
You feel ashamed and I suppose that is something. The remainder of your comments, however, are not fair...other than the cute falaffel comment of course. The Israeli Army has no choice in the face of a people who teach their children to murder and go to heaven for virgins on the basis of lies and anti semetic hatred...nothing more...nothing less. The pal Arabs hate and want to destroy Israel and the Jews. I would remind you... If the pal Arabs would lie down their weapons today...peace would ensue. If Israel would lay down her weapons today...their would be alot of dead Jews.
11. Why not invite gay actors and gay clergy men?
Yaakov Sullivan ,   NYC   (01.16.08)
12. to 10.
Mario ,   Rome, Italy   (01.16.08)
I know! I was just being a bit lefty! Now, seriously, I hope one day Israeli news open with normal problems and not those horrible ones we all days see on TV. Shalom!
13. #9
Mario ,   Rome, Italy   (01.16.08)
We could open a Falaffel/Pizza Trattoria!
14. I just sent Mr. Ferrero an e-mail thanking him!!
Chaya ,   Bat Yam, Israel   (01.16.08)
15. Italian Football is the most corrupt!
Efi ,   Sof Ha Olam   (01.17.08)
Italy is corrupt and beyond repair.
16. Whatever Zionism touches, it peverts and ruins
Chanalau, Tova ,   London, UK   (01.16.08)
As soon as Israel gets involved in anything cultural in the world, you can be sure that it is the beginning of the end for fredom of speech there. The US Zionist mass email campaigns against its favourite enemies will commence. How long before books by writers like Norman Finklestein and Israel Shamir get banned from the Turin Fair and how long before publishers like the Pluto Press get attacked, Once Israel gets its ugly foot in the door, independent thought and freedom of expression disappears out the window.
17. So even Italy
Korem ,   New York, USA   (01.17.08)
I always thought Italy was one of those very few European countries that didn't have this problem but I guess I was wrong. Extreme leftists apparently pull their stunts and boycotts and protests everywhere in Europe. Ah well, no hard feelings. Italy is definitely better than, well, every other country in Western Europe when it comes to tolerating Israel (and I'm annoyed at the idea that Israel has to be "tolerated" rather than regarded as a legitimate nation).
18. Mario is right!!!
Semper fi! ,   San Diego, USA   (01.17.08)
The best pizza is from Naples, I specially like the capres and black or calamata olives on it... BTW, what's the problem if some lefties decided to boycott this fair, they are in their country and do whatever they want. Besides, who cares about the dying communist party and all those lefty organizations that are desperate and popular only among illegals and poor immigrants? Oh I forgot self-loathing Italians too...
19. Viva Torino
Michel Grinberg ,   Jerusalem   (01.17.08)
For years, Angelo Pezzana (and not Fatzana) has been extremely active for Israel, as chairman of the Italy-Israel Association but also by exhibiting always a lot of Israeli and Jewish books in his bookshop in Torino. It has been fired and vandalized several times..but Pezzana never gave up.
20. Italians...
Hansje   (01.17.08)
...were very good towards jews during WWII. Don't forget it! So, leftist Italians are just dreamers. Don't blemish all Italians. Italy is a beautiful country with kindly and beautiful people and very tasty food. Extraordinary culture, second to none.
21. As a Catholic I am proud of Italians
Yaakov Sullivan ,   NYC   (01.17.08)
Unfortunately they are against gay merriges, but they are lots of fun, those Italians.
22. To #9
M. Hartley ,   Atlanta, US   (01.17.08)
Sophia and Gina? Did you ever date yourself :-) But you forgot somebody: Claudia Cardinale. What a beautiful woman!
23. 16
(01.17.08)
You do not even know what Zionism is. The only book you have ever read is the "protocols of the elders of zion" without even knowing it's a fake. Just as you are.
24. What a wonderful day for Italian leftists.
Uzziel   (01.17.08)
Finally they will justify being on the payroll of the petrodollars, the less disturbing thing for them being that the furnishers are, theoretically, in the diametrically opposite ideological camp. Instead fighting the rather rightist, religiously sectarian, rabidly racist and supremacist regimes they choose to fight the country of the kibbutzim and the leftist conception of the state. I donĀ“t have any doubt why, they are true capitalists in heart...
25. Mario, my business partner!
Yossi ,   Levittown, PA, USA   (01.17.08)
YO! (That's what they say in Italian South Phila.) Saw in the news last night that demonstrators against the Italian government released hundreds of multi-colored tennis balls down a street stairway. Just shows what you can do when you have - mm - balls. Ponder hundreds of blue and white balls rolling down the street in Mea Shearim!
26. To #20
M. Hartley ,   Atlanta, US   (01.17.08)
You forgot the most important thing of all about Italian culture: In contrast to the ancient Greeks, the Romans introduced sex with women to the world:-)
27. # 22 re: Gina,Sophia, and Claudia
Petra ,   usa   (01.17.08)
beautiful but receiving old age pensions by now. Any Italian beauty under 60 allowed or, is this the only crop of cuties? LOL, Italy the most anti Israel place on earth, except old Germany.
28. # 16 You're a nasty thangie aren't you?
Petra ,   usa   (01.17.08)
your bigotry blinds you. the blind bigot leading the blind.
29. No surprise
Paolo Ortenzi ,   Rome, Italy   (01.17.08)
I am italian, rightist (I am a Gianfranco Fini fan...), and this is nothing new from PDCI leaders. Remember that their party chief, On. Diliberto, met few years ago Hassan Nasrallah, trying to legitimate Hezballah as "normal party very close to us". PRC and PDCI, both born from the death of the Communist party, are pro Palestinians and sponsor very often anti-Israeli propaganda using Very similar arguments used by the antisemite far-right propaganda. What the difference between far left and far right anti-Israeli propaganda? That neofascist lost the last World War, and the neo Communisti won it, so the last ones feel legitimate. They have no idea of the daily struggle Israel has to face to survive, or if they know, they hide it in the name of an ideology that suggest to the many Italian Jews that joined the Left to hide or abandon their identity. So far you can eliminate Jews in many ways: nazis did it by phisical elimination. Communists are doing the job by ideological means, and media "pogroms".
30. HE WHO BURNS BOOKS SHALL BURN BODIES
Petra ,   usa   (01.17.08)
THERE ARE ALWAYS THOSE WHO CANNOT COMPETE WITH WINNERS AND FOR THEM, THE ANSWER IS TRANSPARENT BLATANT IGNORANCE AND HATRED OF THOSE WHO WIN.
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