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Jews are different
Yair Lapid
Published: 25.10.09, 09:17
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1. Lapid
Vilal ,   Jerusalem   (10.25.09)
Israeli journalist Lapid doesn't hate haredim, he just thinks they're different.
2. Who gave Donald Bostrom an entry visa? Let him visit Russia
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (10.25.09)
and write articles about pig farms.
3. Except they didn't tell him that
Danny   (10.25.09)
The family denies claiming they ever said that he was missing organs. Basically the reporter made that up. Yair, I hope you ask him why he made it up. Why he thinks that not only should he report it but that he should keep reporting it. What exactly made him repeat the lie nearly two decades later? Why he is now extending that lie to apparently go back to 1960 - similarly with not evidence. I hope you ask him and i hope you publish his response
4. More Left-wing Atheist Yair Lapid Appeasing!
Yuk   (10.25.09)
5. To #2
M. Hartley ,   Atlanta, US   (10.25.09)
Would you really do that to those poor animals???
6. Jews Are Different
Karen USA/Australia   (10.25.09)
We are different because we don't teach our children to go out and blow themselves up and kill non Jews. We also don't demand people of other faiths convert to Judaism or die.
7. Very well said...
Jonathan   (10.25.09)
Thank you Yair. Unlike other/previous talkbacks, I'm not going to blame you for telling the truth, and I honestly don't think that you meant to defame the Haredim, like others assumed. Indeed, we are dealing with a global media/news war, which does take place on millions of TV screens... Hopefully, we will be able to 'fight' back and reveal the truth. Slowly, but gradually.
8. Thank God Jews are different from the likes of Bostrom!(end)
Joe ,   Canada   (10.25.09)
9. he's right!
martine ,   ashdod   (10.25.09)
we're different! of course, I wouldn't want to look like him. He agrees to publish lies even if he knows that they are lies just to make our people and our country worse! I don't want to have anything in common with that man. He should live in Gaza or Ramallah or Shehem to see how they live there. Then maybe he'll have a hint of where is the truth! but that man prefers to stay in Sweden and spread his lies. He has no chance to get hurt, he's hidden in his office!
10. Different, smifferent, no excuse.
vered ,   israel   (10.25.09)
11. #1 Hahahahahahaha,,,,so true!
JAy3 ,   Israel   (10.25.09)
12. Who lets anti Semites like bostrom
jason white ,   afula,israel   (10.25.09)
and goldstone into Israel? They should be flushed back into the sewers they came from.
13. Anti-semitic incitement
Truth ,   Earth   (10.25.09)
It helps if when denouncing so-called anti-semitic incitement, one does not resort to incitement against other Semites. Calling all Palestinian liars is an easy way out of discussion and reveals Yair's racism against Arabs. It also shows he's a liar himself. Do you not remember Yehuda Hiss who was harvesting body parts at Abu Kabir for decades, from Israelis and Palestinian alike? A little self-reflection may be in order. No?
14. Sweden, Norway, Anti-Semitism Obsession
David P. ,   Capitola, CA   (10.25.09)
these guys are ridiculous, so full of latent hatred they choose to masquerade it as being anti-Israel. but we all know, because as Jews we've seen this scene before, it repeats itself century after century
15. How come the Amish Dutch are not hated?
JMK ,   NYC   (10.25.09)
What about the Mennonites they are not hated? Asian Monks in Yellow Robes are not hated? Whirling Dervishes are not hated? Why? It is all about one thing textual Christian religious hatred of Jews? The New Testament is an anti-Jewish book, 450 ant-semitic pericopes in only 250 pages. All 450 pericopes and the entire volume is complete provable fiction.
16. "Jews are different", indeed, as we are members of a ...
Eitan ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (10.25.09)
... particular civilization, Jewish/Israeli/Hebrew civilization of nearly 4,000 years of age. But then again, every people, every culture is different to some extent from all other peoples, from all other cultures. To single us out as different from all others as if all others are the same is a pure form of racism, anti-Jewish racism.
17. upside down
a b   (10.25.09)
"It's hard to blame him. This notion, that we're different, came from us after all. If for 2,000 years you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you. " Hey! stop blaming the victim! after all for more than 100 years now, jews are trying to insist we're NOT different! doesn't seem to be getting us ANYWHERE! in fact anti-semitism is WORST when we insist we're the same as everyone. when we kept to ourselves, many times we were MORE respected and LESS hated...
18. Just punch him in the face!
Stu   (10.25.09)
19. Who's Different?
M. Hartley ,   Atlanta, US   (10.25.09)
Who says Jews are different and better? Jews? Well, what blithering idiot would expect Jews or anyone else, for that matter, to say “Not only are we in all ways like every other asshat on the planet, but we make up for it by being as bad or even worse than they are”?? Wouldn't that be asking just a little too much? As for that “different,” different from whom, what and how? Hell, most of my friends - Jews, Gentiles, Religious, Heathens, not to mention my kids - think I'm occasionally so “different” as to warrant medical attention. I, of course, don't agree with any of them wrt the latter, because I'm positive that they're just not intelligent enough to recognize my unique greatness and that I'm simply better than all of them put together. I do, however, appreciate them. After all, if it weren't for “them,” to whom could I compare myself or on whom could I look down??? Although I'm not much on voices, and all that horrible smiting, I can handle some of one “different” much better than a lot of the “new and improved” kind. I can be talked into believing that a 90 year old married woman had a baby, but I refuse to fall for that when it supposedly involved a virgin. And that old geezer bedding a 9 year old smacks a lot more of child molesting than marriage. Regardless what a strange Creator all of us paint for ourselves, I'm with the French on this one: Vive la difference!!!
20. I AM ALSO DIFFERENT !!!.
Arn-Orao. ,   Sweden-Srbia.   (10.25.09)
So is Bostrom an anti-Semite? Of course he is. Does he know he's an anti-Semite? That's a different story. I tend to believe that if we connect him to a polygraph and ask him whether he hates Jews, the needles will not shake. He doesn’t hate us; he just thinks we're different. ANYBODY SEEN BY THE SWEDISH SOCIALIST-DEMOCRATS, AS NONE SOCIALIST-DEMOCRAT, ARE SEEN AS DIFFERENT BY THEM AT LEAST, AND AS FACISTS AT THE MOST. SO JEWS ARE NO DIFFERENT THAN OTHER PEOPLES, BUT DIFFERENT ONLY BY THE CALL OF YEHOWAH. CEEP THAT CALLING AND OBEY IT, IT WILL BENEFIT THE WHOLE WORLD IN THE END, EVEN IF YOU ARE SEEN AS SCUMBAGS BY THE WORLD JUST NOW. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Be0qJw9ZE Arn-Orao.
21. Not an antisemite
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (10.25.09)
Bostrom, and Goldstone for that matter, is not an antisemite and does not hate Jews. They are doing their jobs. Bostrom wanted to sell newspapers and got a hefty bonus for writing his fiction. Goldstone is a lawyer and is paid to provide a "legal analysis" that his client wants. No antisemitism, just money.
22. All people are the same, aren't they?
Paul ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (10.25.09)
Absolutely, it takes an astute honest goy to recognize a Jew is infinitely greater, spiritually, intellectually, morally, than the emptiness produced by pagan genes flourishing throughout the world. The only problem is that the goy sees but does not understand, they are spiritually incapable of deciphering the obvious through generations of rotten behavior and belief.
23. Different
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (10.25.09)
In the 19th century during the split in the Jewish community in Hungary, between the Orthodox and the Reform,the Hungarian interior Minister said to the head of the Jewish community,"after all,we are not different"and this goes to all sides.
24. Bostrom
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (10.25.09)
And i thought the swedes are neutral.
25. Anti semitism
J.K. ,   Brooklyn USA   (10.25.09)
Jews had a bad press since time immemorial,when the Jews were the only people who worshiped an invisible God,and introduced equality before the law,King and layman,rich or poor, protection of the poor and the stranger,those were strange ideas in those days, 24 centurys ago, a Persian prime minister named Haman (forefather of Achmedijan ?) pleaded with the King of Persia to exterminate the Jews,the reason he gave:and their costoms are diffrerent, later christians and Arabs begin to worship the Jewish invisible God ,but ignored the tenet of equality to the stranger,the swedes don't worship anymore a visible or unvisible God,but they do practice hatred for Jews.
26. #6 Teaching
Edithann   (10.25.09)
Don't you teach that Jews are superior and that others are inferior? ...Isn't that pretty much the same thing? TATA
27. Nobody is talking about the "Golsdstein Report"
Hansje   (10.25.09)
and the swedish article here in Europe! It would be bether for Israel to keep quiet on those matters.
28. #22
Marilyn ,   USA   (10.25.09)
Why would we encourage an unhealthy delusional state? It's time to get back to reality.
29. Bostrom
Nir ,   Sweden   (10.25.09)
Why dont someone hack into Aftonbladet and post pictures and an article of Mohamed under Bostrom's name? Please do it? If I knew how I would have done it a long time a go
30. Lets not be the victim!
Netta ,   Israel   (10.26.09)
I think that lot of the classic Antisemitism came because the Jews always kept their rituals and beliefs very secret and mysterious. Maybe if we engage others more, and be more transparent, people will not have to speculate and come up with these terrible accusations against us. Maybe if Jews would have invited their neighbors for Passover they would see that we do not slaughter babies and drink their blood… And today – maybe if we cooperated with the Goldstone investigation, our side would also be heard. Maybe if we didn't do autopsies without the family's consent (which is completely unethical by the way), there would be no rumors about what we did with the bodies. I am not naive and I know that Antisemitism is deeply rooted especially in Europeans. But the way I see it, we have 2 options: 1. To be the victim = Feel sorry for ourselves that they all hate us, shut down and further distance ourselves from the rest of the world. 2. To seek justice = To be more transparent, to admit our mistakes (children WERE killed, you know), to cooperate with investigations, to try to be more ethical!!!! I believe that if we take the 2nd option we will benefit from it on many different levels. It will make us better people …
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