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'Spock' calls for Jerusalem's division
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Published: 09.06.11, 08:29
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1. Mr. Spock
Mark ,   Modiin, Israel   (06.09.11)
Of course, having played a space alien on an American television show 40 years ago, he is now eminently qualified to discuss the political/security situation here. I don't know why we didn't consult him earlier.
2. The guy is from another planet....
HaHaHa ,   Jerusalem   (06.09.11)
and has no idea of the realities in Israel. Just because he has pointed ears you want to listen to him? His views are "out of this world".
3. hes a has been actor
Mordechai (Moti) ,   Brooklyn   (06.09.11)
who cares what he has to say
4. ONLY ONE PROBLEM CAPTAIN
LAWRENCE ,   SAFED ISRAEL   (06.09.11)
The vulcans ,I mean the pals ,want it all .
5. DEAR SPOCK THE GENIUS
LAWRENCE ,   SAFED ISRAEL   (06.09.11)
If Israel were only one inch big ,the arabs would still not be satisfied ,they simply want it all .
6. He is Correct!
I. Diot ,   Fantasyland   (06.09.11)
All the Arabs want is half of Jerusalem and the West Bank! Then there will be peace! (See how well this worked from 1948-1967? Seriously, who cares what this fool thinks! He is the same person who photographed nude women wearing tefilin!)
7. You can't sit comfortable at home in America and dictate
ariana   (06.09.11)
things to israel. once Leonard would send someone from his family to fight the war after Israel return to the '67 borders and give part of Jerusalem, I will say yes.
8. That's just what we need ...
sheldon   (06.09.11)
Comicon fans that have adopted his opinions blindly without doing any research ...
9. obviously best in outer space roles
Julie ,   Israel   (06.09.11)
if leonard Nimoy was best know for being an ardent supporter of Israel, of Zionism of Torah learning, well, his words may hold some weight. However, he is misinformed and ignorant of the issues and only finds hisJewish voice to lend support to "Palestinian" aspirations.
10. who cares about the opinion of this has been ?
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11. This isn't Star Trek ......
Terry ,   Eilat - Israel   (06.09.11)
While much of the ''Peace Process'' clearly resembles science fiction fantasy, lately it has become more surrealistic, a strange combination of Salvadore Dali, Franz Kafka, & The Brothers Grimm (Once upon a times .........and everyone lived happily never after.) Mr Nimoy is an actor. If he wrote an opinion about acting techniques, it would be worth reading. His opinion about the Middle-East, however, is just the typical liberal Hollywood crap. Mr Nimoy is just another useful idiot. According to recent polls, something like 85% of Israelis are against dividing Jerusalem. Does Mr Nimoy, living in Hollywood (or wherever) presume to know our interests better than we do? By the way, his ''letter'' is just a bunch of vague slogans & typical rhetoric with no actual connexion to FACTS, EVIDENCE, & HISTORY. It's very easy for Mr Nimoy to give away what is not his.
12. And Tom Cruise Believes In Scientology
Yishai Kohen ,   YeShA, Israel   (06.09.11)
Didn't he also once play a smart character on something or other? Surely that qualifies him in complex geopolitical issues.
13. Outer space
Eli ,   Haifa   (06.09.11)
His knowledge on outer space and stars, together with a life of 'sacrifice" in the US surely enables him to tell us whats right in the Middle East
14. There hasn't been a War with Klingon
TruthMonger   (06.09.11)
..for many many years, so I assume that he knows what he is talking about
15. Beam me up skottie
USA   (06.09.11)
Mr. Spock I am a big star trek fan but with all due respect this isn't the time to boldly go where we've already gone before. Your position is highly illogical. "those who preach peace on behalf of our enemies are too often concerned with their own bodies". I am disappointed that you have no courage to stand by your people.
16. The 'Jewish" actor
Steve Goodman ,   Israel   (06.09.11)
Stay with acting, and at that you were really just mediocre. As a poitical advise giver you are truly a "SELF HATING JEW"....Make ALIYAH, then as an ISRAELI you may voice your opinion. Walk in our shoes, then you may sound off, until then SHUT YOUR MOUTH.
17. live long and prosper in the US
mothr of 2   (06.09.11)
and we will do the same thing here without your help. you are damaging our life by saying stupid things which encorage people to hate israel and jews. thank you.
18. Mr. Worf - open a hailing frequency to the Palestinians
Captain Picard ,   NCC-1701   (06.09.11)
We are the united federation of civilized planets. Lower your rockets and surrender your suicide bombers. We will add your biological (and lack of technological distinctiveness) to our own. Your culture will adapt to international laws and to a peace treaty with the zionists. Palestinian resistance is futile.
19. Why it's just not logical
Nic ,   UK   (06.09.11)
If everyone could just take a minute and fire off a letter of their own to *insert name of misinformed celebrity here*, and state these facts: 1 the division plan proposed by the Geneva Initiative would put the British Consulate in a Palestinian controlled area leaving it non accessible to Israeli citizens, it would also leave the Israeli National Poilce Headquarters on the Palestinian side not to mention a branch of the Israeli run HMO Briyut Klalit (which would have to close down leaving Arabs in that area with no health services). 2 If you're dividing along 1967 lines you would have to cut through the middle of the Hebrew University sports centre. 3. The propsed division of the old city would mean it would have to be split on lower and upper levels; something which would only be possible by causing irreversible damage to a UNESCO world heritage site. 4 A considerable percentage of Arab residents do not wish to be residents of a Palestinian run state. 5. To divide along ethnic lines, to force a government on Arab residents who don't want it and to cut off Jewish residents from sites of religious import and the tombs of their ancestors would contravene their human rights
20. But...that would be illogical
Zev ,   Scottsdale AZ   (06.09.11)
21. MR. Spock: There is NO Israel Palestinian Conflict!
David ,   Karmiel, Israel   (06.09.11)
There is only HATRED by the Palestinians against Israel and the existence of Jews in their "Palestine" which stretches from the Lebanese border in the north to Eilat in the south. This was the situation pre-1948, after 1948 and still today! Do you really think that "dividing" Jerusalem will bring peace? If you do, well, I ask you would you have made "peace" with the "Borg"? Would you make "peace" with Al Qaeda and make the USA into a Muslim Fundamentalist State? Divide Jerusalem and the allow the next demand, the Right of Return, and then say goodbye to Israel and the Jewish people and we can all go back to Europe to a place near Cracow - Auschwitz!
22. Thank you ynetnews for transmitting this to us
Daniel ,   UK   (06.09.11)
Well would you believe it? Spock has the solution to achieving piss - commit national suicide!
23. he is from the eruv rav
jew ,   ISRAEL   (06.09.11)
a real jew would not give up his home!
24. maybe he is not so jewish like you think
ezra ,   golan israel   (06.09.11)
25. spock is not running the world!
who cares ,   usa   (06.09.11)
26. Mindless rightists...
Dovid ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (06.09.11)
(yes, I know that term is a redundancy)...it gets kind of old that any Jew who seeks peace, who says one word of criticism against this wonderful Netanyahu-Lieberman government that has done so much to advance Israel's standing in the world, is a "self-hating Jew." Former generals, military heroes, religious persons, and many others who are proud Jews- all called "self-hating Jews" by these rightist, many of whom have made NO contribution to Israel.
27. "Tumultuous situation"
Ehoop ,   UK   (06.09.11)
And what has the tumultuous situation in the Middle East and attacking Libya got to do with Israel, Spock? I bet you voted for Obama, too.
28. #14 TruthMonger. Re: Klingons.
Terry ,   Eilat - Israel   (06.09.11)
The Klingons have formed an alliance with the Romulans while the United Federation of Planets has been infiltrated by by aliens from the Far Left side of the Universe, at the highest levels. So, war could be just around the corner. Anyone who understands Star Dreck knows that making concessions to the Klingons is a bad idea because they are being manipulated by the Romulans who are seeking to conquer the Universe.
29. Mr. Spock
Oscar ,   Melbourne Australia   (06.09.11)
Stick to Star Drek
30. 8 miles wide is suicide spock. was that also an episode in
nimoy ,   bel air bubble   (06.09.11)
star treck? get a grip on reality, treckie. you wouldnt put your own children in such danger, dont put ours.
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