{"rows":[{"LEVEL":1,"name":"lor","title":"Noa, you fly down","id":35807566,"location":"italy","the_date":"14.06.11","tc":70,"text":"Before you begin writing a letter like this it would be advisible to pay 1 visit to Ni'lin, Bi'lin or even to Shuafat in order to be aware of the reality on the ground. If it possible without 100 bodyguards that mitigate what you look around. She knows nothing about the real situation but she pretend to give advice. To be famous is not enough, dear friend of mine.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"YSL","title":"What is with these people,that hate their own people","id":22284595,"location":"Jerusalem","the_date":"23.01.09","tc":69,"text":"I used to like listening to her,not any more.What a load of shmaltzy,soppy tear-jerking crap","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"yasmine","title":"imposture ","id":22251103,"location":"","the_date":"21.01.09","tc":68,"text":"you kill children then you say you love them! what kind of heart do you people have?","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"TY","title":"Brainwashed by Israeli propaganda","id":22247219,"location":"Hazorea, Israel","the_date":"21.01.09","tc":67,"text":"Noa, as most Jewish Israelis, is brainwashed by the efficient Israeli public relations propaganda into putting all the blame of the atrocities Israel commits on Hamas.  Before Hamas was democratically elected, that same Israeli propaganda machine accused the Palestinian Authority of ineffectiveness and inability to rule.  It prevented any concessions and so itself led to the electoral success of Hamas.  Now Noa is even helping the Israeli p.r. by trying to set the Gazans against its elected leadership.  Shame.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"shari ","title":"poetic but not psychic","id":22131772,"location":"","the_date":"15.01.09","tc":66,"text":"I love your writing, Noa, and your spirit.  But I don't believe you or anyone else \"knows\" what others really feel but don't express.  And I'm sorry, but it is irresponsible and immoral to base risky policies on anything but actual behaviors.  Please stick to your art, not politics.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"augustine e johnson","title":"i dont think i am a fanatic- just Yeshua is the messiah","id":22084352,"location":"Birmingham-usa","the_date":"13.01.09","tc":65,"text":"i dont think i am a fanatic- just Yeshua is the messiah ========shalom========augustine e johnson-usa","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Joshua G","title":"Noa","id":22065370,"location":"Cherry Hill,NJ","the_date":"12.01.09","tc":64,"text":"Noa is right.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"skywalker","title":"noa","id":22059646,"location":"germany","the_date":"12.01.09","tc":63,"text":"Look Noa,\r\n\r\nYou can be as good and understanding as You want; as long as You are jewish, they will hate You!\r\nI just spent three weeks on holidays in Israel and I'm proud to say that I didn't think a minute about leaving.\r\nAll the best to Your country and Op Cast Lead!","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Dan","title":"Remember What Golda said...","id":22058168,"location":"Tel-Aviv Israel","the_date":"12.01.09","tc":62,"text":"Dear Noa,\r\n\r\nYou are a great artist (one of the best concerts I saw was one of yours, 15 years ago in Mitzpe Shalem). I read your beautiful letter and kept dreaming...for about 2 minutes....until I read the reactions of so-called palestinians or other muslims....Unfortunately, most of them are not ready for peace....\r\nHatred is there for a couple of years if not centuries in the heart of most of muslims living in this region.\r\nUntil this occurs, we will have to be strong....Like said Golda Mair:\r\n\"There will be peace here when palestinians will love their children more than they hate us...\" \r\n\r\nIt is so true today....\r\nGood luck to Tsahal....I pray everyday so that we succeed in eliminating this cancer\r\n","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"JPS","title":"Ahmad - you got it wrong, what happened?","id":22052814,"location":"Efrat","the_date":"12.01.09","tc":61,"text":"Hey Ahmad, I'm just going to take one of your points and remind you what really happened.\r\nYou said \"such enemy who uprooted Jews from around the world and brought them here as colonists treating us as nothing. \"\r\nWell, you can thank your Arab brothers for doing this to you. Where did all the Jews in Iraq, Yemen, Morocco, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Syria and Lebanon go? \r\nWhy, most of them are in Israel.\r\nWhy is that?\r\nBecause your Arab brothers stole all their land and property and kicked them out of all those countries in the 1950s and sent them to Israel.\r\nNext time you elect your Fatah and Hamas leaders and they go to the Arab League, remind them about that.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"David","title":"That enemy is your govenrment Noa","id":22041124,"location":"UKjavascript: save()","the_date":"11.01.09","tc":60,"text":"Have you done anything towards ending the occupation and terrorism?","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"zelda harris","title":"letter from NOA","id":22039127,"location":"tel avaiv israel","the_date":"11.01.09","tc":59,"text":"My heart is with every word you say","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Bearded Boegyman","title":"Gotchya","id":22037948,"location":"Ha ha ha ah","the_date":"11.01.09","tc":58,"text":"Why is it that performing artists consider themselves oracles of truth? Entitled to an opinion, yes. Money and drug induced epiphanies, no thanks!","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"i","title":"Yo! Kool Aid Drinker","id":22037818,"location":"jerusalem","the_date":"11.01.09","tc":57,"text":"Rabin was shot in a car-- far away from you. ","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"AK","title":"From a Palestinian --Noa's family came from Yemen","id":22030772,"location":"","the_date":"11.01.09","tc":56,"text":"so why do you send them to Germany. But if in stead you send her to yemen, why don't you go to Arabia. or South Europe or Afghanistan, or wherever  your people came from?\r\nThere is no such a thing as Palestinian. There has never in history been a nationality of Palestinian, which explains why you don't have a distinct language of culture (unless you consider violence and hatred to be a culture.)","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"AK","title":"Well said Hannah.","id":22030705,"location":"","the_date":"11.01.09","tc":55,"text":"","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"AK","title":"Noa, look how the Jews of Yemen live today...","id":22030664,"location":"","the_date":"11.01.09","tc":54,"text":"and see what your life would have been if your family didn't move to Israel.\r\n\r\nWhich parts about Dhimmis under Islam do you still refuse to understand? Which parts of Jihad obligation to fight non-believers who don't submit  are still unclear to you. You, as a Jew from the Arab diaspora, should know better.\r\nNoa, you may be able to move to the West, but how about an average Mizrahi Jew in Israel?   All they can do is fight for freedom.\r\nPlease don't stab them in the back with your well-meaning nonsense --Israel is now in an existential struggle for survival fighting against the entire world. Israel MUST win, because you will not be given a chance to fight another day, the way you have been giving to the Arabs.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Gregory","title":"Unbelievable","id":22022263,"location":"Akko, Israel","the_date":"10.01.09","tc":53,"text":"This is just unsane.  A typical case of Stockholm syndrome.  You need help from a psychiatrist.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Lawrence","title":"Noa :Have Some Self-Respect","id":22014030,"location":"Safed  Israel","the_date":"09.01.09","tc":52,"text":"Don't go crawling to Gazans begging for love or acceptance.They probably hate your guts.Just guard yourself against their hatred.When they calm down and accept Israels existence they know how to find you.In the meantime don't hold your breath and try not too feel guilty,that is a wasted emotion.,leave guilt for the Catholics ...they sure have PLENTY to feel guilty about.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"The 11th Man","title":"What an amazing.....","id":22011889,"location":"London","the_date":"09.01.09","tc":51,"text":"EGO!!!!!!\r\nObama,  you better move over,  here comes another messiah.   \r\n\r\nSeriously,  credit where credit's due:\r\nshe's given us all a good laugh in the middle of this war.\r\n\r\nGO TO IT ISRAEL!","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Mike Sless","title":"I adore Noa...but disagree with her.","id":22008314,"location":"Israel","the_date":"09.01.09","tc":50,"text":"\r\n\r\nI adore Noa but would like to ask her how she \"knows\" when the Palestinians chant \"Death to the Jews\" that they don't mean it.?\r\n\r\nOf course they mean it!  They do it all the time with Zeal which is what the word Hamas means translated to English....it means Zeal!","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"MAGGIE","title":"Noa-","id":22006797,"location":"Rishon","the_date":"09.01.09","tc":49,"text":" Noa,\r\n\r\nWell done.!!\r\n\r\n\r\nyou speaske your mind bravely. I wish more arsists will shake our ilusions and look the reality in it face!!1\r\n\r\ncol hacavod1\r\n\r\nnow, be careful, watch your back.\r\n\r\nyou know it already, our enemies are blide fanatic.\r\n\r\ngod bless you for your courage. ","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"koby","title":"noa, wake up!!!","id":22005074,"location":"","the_date":"09.01.09","tc":48,"text":"what majestic history? these people have a false identity (\"palestinian\") only to delegitimize israel.  talmud: those who are compassionate to the cruel end up being cruel to the compassionate.  noa, you are making huge mistake.  you are equalizing them with us.\r\n\r\nthe land is ours, from Hashem. the only way we keep it is by being true to torah and to each other. then the world is blessed by us.  these people actually hate us.  it's hard for you to accept. but in their moslem hearts they hate us.\r\nit is up to us to be strong and claim andkeep what is rightfully ours.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Hannah","title":"You should learn your facts Noa!","id":22005299,"location":"Jerusalem","the_date":"09.01.09","tc":47,"text":"Noa, you say \"I know\" whereas in fact they are simply your wishful thinking. Your disregard towards facts is reflected in the that sentence when you innocently say you \"remember that fateful day in 1994 when Rabin was murdered a few feet from me\". The truth is Rabin was killed on Nov.4. 1995. I was not there, but I remember, because this event has changed the whole atmosphere in this country, and people like you started blaming people like me for this murder. Now it turns out Rabin was not even significant enough for you to remember the date of his murder. This is just one but very revealing example of how you substitute your own mental inventions for facts and try to create reality on this shaky  foundation. You are unable to understand that the overwhelming majority of those people in Gaza share HAMAS' attitude to you, and it is pure hatred, the kind of hatred for the sake of which they are HAPPY to sacrifice their own children. ","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Mohammed ","title":"brothers???i am changing my name ..","id":22003464,"location":"USA","the_date":"09.01.09","tc":46,"text":"","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"MOhamed","title":"Noa you are completely disconnected from reality","id":22003078,"location":"Ejerusalem palestine","the_date":"09.01.09","tc":45,"text":"Dear Noa, I think you are completely not aware of the situation and I assure you the cancer is occupation and daily humilation of isarel. \r\nWhen i see the years passing I just see what a terrible neighbour Israel is kiiling innocens all the time. \r\n","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Dotan","title":"ahmad/ Nablus","id":22002861,"location":"Canada","the_date":"09.01.09","tc":44,"text":"It is really tragic to read your stupid lines and to realize the world of hate you and others are living in. Israel is not yours, it never was. But to know more you have to read the Bible and I doubt you can read the Koran. Open your eyes and maybe you will find out that life is worth wile living ","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Jake","title":"#42 We don't want coffee with you either","id":22003016,"location":"","the_date":"09.01.09","tc":43,"text":"And we won't be packing our bags to go anywhere, ever again. \r\nAnd if you don't like it, you can pack your bags.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"From a Palestinian..","title":"a RESPONSE TO NOA from a pali","id":22001719,"location":"","the_date":"09.01.09","tc":42,"text":"I don't want your coffee, neither sit next to you, neither talk to you....but what I want you to do is to leave us alone and pack your bags and head off to where you belong...that is Poland, Russia, Germany, among others, BUT NOT PALESTINE. Your words, the Israeli's words does not mean anything to us, we don't judge you by your words as they lie and have always lied, only your action tells the truth and nothing but the truth!.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"LB","title":"It helps to sell abroad !!","id":22002213,"location":"Paris","the_date":"09.01.09","tc":41,"text":"This is probably what you have to do to be able to sell CD's and fill Music Hall abroad, right Noa ?? !\r\nIt is funny how some Israelis think they will get accepted out of Israel by playing this game... WRONG you are first and foremost JEWISH and you will get judged for that !!! \r\nWake up and smell the coffee for heaven's sake !!! \r\nGo live outside of Israel for a while to understand that you'd better care for yourselves because no one will... \r\nGo d bless Israel and may Israel pass over this constant need for acceptance that they will never get !","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"MIKE","title":"Frustrated...","id":22002205,"location":"JERUSALEM","the_date":"09.01.09","tc":40,"text":"Dear Noa...\r\na first glance at ur message seems full of hope of a better future but obviously ur vision for peace is far away from ours. despite the images of the killed citizens in gaza and terroriszed pal. there actually u r backing the army for more and more of there actions there. u r asking israel to accomplish the mission!! how come i c ur message as a messsage of peace?!!!!\r\ni believe that racism is something in the genes of israelis, it's in the air they breath and in the food they eat...this cant be a democracy no matter u pretend. this is a JEWISH state where u will be treated DIFFERENTLY from other non jews.\r\nwhere one drop of a jewish kids is more precious than the lives of hundreds of palestinan kids.\r\nif u think it's fascism is our common enemy, then i will say that racism is our biggest threat as pales. here...where all ur rights r ready to be sacrifised for an israeli...\r\ni invite u to open ur eyes and c the truth, but not for a cup of coffee!","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Lawrence","title":"Sympathy Is Like Money","id":21999603,"location":"Safed Israel","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":39,"text":"One only ever has a limited supply to go around and I prefer to give my sympathy to the poor soldiers of the I.D.F,most of them kids really,and to the Dead and wounded.The people in Gaza ,to some extent at least,are architects of their own misery.And they still are calling for Shahids and Jihad and their nonsense.My advice to them,you have been knocked down...STAY DOWN.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Lawrence","title":"To Noa: To Appeal To The Better","id":21998575,"location":"Safed Israel","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":38,"text":"Nature of others is to assume others have a \"Better Nature\" .Do Hamas Thugs have better natures? I think not.They behave like hateful savages which is why Israel treats them in a hateful ,savage way.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"THE GREEN ONE","title":"GOOD STUFF, AH?","id":21997975,"location":"","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":37,"text":"","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Lawrence","title":"Open Letter To Noa","id":21997078,"location":"Safed Israel","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":36,"text":"I think I know where you are coming from and I believe you are a woman who desires peace and means well.I even share many of your sentiments,it is hard watching others suffer.BUT..... if I can give an analogy,and what the bleeding heart U.N and Red Cross do not understand,helping the people of Gaza is a bit like trying to help a Drug Addict or Alcoholic,it is almost impossible and they will likely drag you down with them.The long suffering wretches in Gaza can not be helped until they choose to HELP THEMSELVES.How do they help themselves? By getting up,dusting themselves off and getting on with their lives.By working,building and throwing their stupid rockets in to the trash can.Why stupid rockets?, because Israel has REAL ones like Jericho 1.2 and 3,some of them Nuclear tipped.Time for a reality check my friends in gaza,you aint NEVER going to throw Israelis in to the sea,so get over it.Sorry if my message is harsh,some tough love perhaps and only a real friend tells people the truth and not what they want to hear.So my dear Gazan friends,you have suffered enough ,don't choose more of the same.Take responsibility and stop your nonsense,just as nobody ever pitied the Jews the world really has no genuine pity for you Gazans,they only use you as a stick to beat the Jews.They may fool Tzipi,Barak and olmert but the likes of  the BBC,Red Cross,UN do not fool me.Nobody cares about Gazans if they do not start to care for themselves.People in Gaza,it's YOUR shot.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"","title":"#25 "They yell death to Israel, not death to Jews"","id":21996430,"location":"","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":35,"text":"They never yell \"Death to Zionism\". They yell \"death to Israel\".\r\nBut they also yell \"Death to Jews\", or rather, \"Yidhbakh al Yahud\" - Slaughter the Jews.\r\n\r\nThis philosophy found its way straight from the Koran and Hadiths to the Hamas covenant itself, where even the rocks and trees assist the Moslems in the slaughter of Jews.\r\n\r\nIf you really were from Haifa or any one of the mixed cities in Israel where Jews and Arabs coexist even during wars, you would not have written the drivel you have written about Israel. ","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Jake","title":"#14, RE  the source of fanaticism is Israeli "Occupation"","id":21996077,"location":"","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":34,"text":"Before the founding of the State of Israel, Jamal Husseini, Chairman of the Arab Higher Commitee (the highest executive body of the Palestine Arabs) told the UN Security Council on April 16, 1948:\r\n\"The representative of the Jewish Agency told us yesterday that they were not the attackers, that the Arabs had begun the fighting. We did not deny this. We told the whole world that we were going to fight.\"\r\n\r\nReferring to 1948, John Bagot Glubb, the British commander of Jordan's Arab Legion admitted:\r\n\"Early in January, the first detachments of the Arab Liberation Army began to infiltrate into Palestine from Syria. Some came through Jordan and even through Amman . . . They were in reality to strike the first blow in the ruin of the Arabs of Palestine.\"\r\n\r\nOn the eve of the 1948 invasion of the fledgling Jewish state by 5 Arab armies, Azzam Pasha, Secretary-General of the Arab League, declared:\r\n\"This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.\"\r\n\r\nWhere does \"Israeli occupation of Palestinian Lands\" come into play in any of this?","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Jake","title":"#8 Your post and the truth never coincide","id":21995816,"location":"","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":33,"text":"500,000 Arabs are known to have entered Palestine west of the Jordan between 1925 and 1934 alone, in order to seize on economic opportunies created by the Zionism that you oppose. Jews in the Palestine Mandate payed 4 times as much taxes per capita than the Arabs. Jews bought lands from Arabs at prices sometimes 10 times their worth.\r\n\r\nBut your fatal error was the scorn you heaped on Rabin and Peres, who went further to accomodate the demands of their enemies than the rational human mind can possibly fathom. The PLO Trojan horse they brought into the heart of the Land of Israel is a fact that all Israel has now woken up to and realizes was a cataclysmic and dire mistake of epic proportions.\r\n\r\nIt is people like you that contributed to the collapse of the once-thriving Left in Israel, by exposing them as naieve and utopic suckers. Because, let's face it - be consequent with yourself now - your people were never really interested in a 2-state solution to this conflict. Not Fatah, PLO, Hamas - not the extremists, not the 'moderates'. Every inch, every grain of sand you lost was the direct result of violent attacks against the Jews living in the land, from 1880 and before, until the present day, Jews who for 1900 years were always commited to the pen, never to the sword.  That is the truth, Ahmad, and you know it well. ","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"nawal","title":"dear noa ","id":21995179,"location":"rafah ","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":32,"text":"sweet letter like a sugar but this sugar is spread over my 5 dead bodies of my 5 girls . so it does not benifit the dead nor the alive . sorry i only read the halfe it is not even  interesting like my poem about the sea of gaza it is in araby so i think only arabs can read it .i thin it is more interesting than your letter  its adress is lonly on the shore of gaza and the sun is behind the clouds ","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"andrew","title":"TO # 25 - JEWS ARE INDIGINOUS","id":21995109,"location":"miami,fl","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":31,"text":"THIS NOTION THAT WE ARE FOREIGN IS PART OF YOUR PROBLEM\r\n\r\nWHO IS BURIED AT THE TOMB OF THE PATRIARCHS??\r\n\r\nWHAT IS AL AKSA BUILT ON TOP OF??\r\n\r\nDO YOU REMEMBER EMPEROR HADRIAN IN 150 AD ??\r\n\r\nWE HAD A COUNTRY - IT WAS CALLED ISRAEL - THEN...AND NOW\r\n\r\n\r\n","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Jake","title":""Palestinian brothers". No chance.","id":21995366,"location":"","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":30,"text":"The Palestinians are not our  brothers. At best, they can be regarded as Israel's neighbors, yet time and time again they have demonstrated that their main order of business is the annihilation of Israel. This is not the behavior of a brother. This was not even the behavior of Esau toward Jacob.\r\n\r\nIsrael gives gifts to its enemies and turns its back on its brothers. The Druze, who entered into a \"convenant of blood\" with the Jews even before 1948 and fought and died for the peace and security of Israel, are our brothers. I will never forget the last defender of Joseph's Tomb, the Druze soldier Madhat Yusef, who bled to death while Arafat refused to allow his evacuation and Barak deferred to Arafat. \r\n\r\nThe SLA were steadfast allies of Israel from the day they were founded in 1978 until the Israeli withdrawal and even today, where the children of their largely-forgotten veterans struggle to find their place within Israeli society as Israelis. I will never forget the SLA veteran family who steadfastly remained in their homes in Kiryat Shemona in 2006 during the Hizbullah bombardment, even after most of the town had fled.\r\n\r\n Israel has shamefully turned its back on these people, while showering gifts upon its avowed enemies, Hamas, Hizbullah, the PLO, and countless others, whose meteoric rise has occurred entirely at Israel's expense. When will Israel ever learn that the conflict with these foes is a zero sum game?\r\n","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Rachel","title":"Beautiful sentiments...but completely misplaced","id":21995095,"location":"USA","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":29,"text":"If you think that the gazans only say those things because they \"have to\", you could not be more wrong. They elected Hamas. Hamas campaigned on terror, using videos of a suicide bomber's mother praising his actions as a campaign video. They got what they wanted. You can say you don't believe them, but you do a grave disservice to all Jews everywhere when you refuse to believe the confessions of their would-be murderers. Just like Hitler could not be negotiated with, no matter how lofty your sentiments, so too these terrorists cannot be negotiated with. Either Israel or the terrorists and their supporters will prevail; there is no middle ground. Those that try to stake a claim in the middle end up caught in the crossfire. Your heart is in the right place, but your head is not. Save your pity for your people, who are not looking to exterminate anyone, but simply trying to live in peace.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"kad","title":"Hello Noa","id":21994552,"location":"Germany","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":28,"text":"You write very well but you have to know the root of this problem.Lets look at the situation religiously.Israel has been the Land of the jews for thousand of years and it should remain so. Lets look at the situation politically. If Israel should be  and dismantle for a so-call palestinian state, then the Americans should give the land back to the Indians , the Canadians should give back the Land to the Inuwit and the Australians should do the same I guess.\r\n\r\nThe Arabs rejected the 1948 UN Process and vowed to destroy the back then young jewish state.The entire world stood by and watch as the Arab legions ascendend on poor Israel and no country came to their assistance. The Arabs have lost every possible war to annialate the jews and now they wanna call the shots in Israel . \r\n\r\nImagine the Americans and British taking commands from the Germans after WW2. ","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Roscio","title":"Sadly, the proof is in the Muslim talkbacks","id":21994636,"location":"Rome, Italy","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":27,"text":"Not a single Muslim respondent agrees - they are all blaming Israel, Zionism and Jews for everything, while Islam and their terrorist regimes are faultless.  The strength of Israel and of Jews is that we have this freedom of expression and the gift of introspection, the right to  disagree.  These concepts are alien to the Islamic world and perceived as weaknesses.  This is one reason why Islam will ultimately fail, not only in this, its final bid for global domination, but also as a religion.  This sick, obsessive mindset inculcated by Islamic methodology is the reason they pray to a god of Hate and Death, and why they will crumble from within as soon as the free world gives up its dependency on petroleum.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Ryan","title":"Fanaticism is the enemy...uhm...what?","id":21991945,"location":"Jerusalem","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":26,"text":"Has it been fanatic Jews who have been lobbing rockets into Gaza?  \r\nYes, there is such a thing as fanaticism among Jews, but they are no one's enemy.\r\nThe only enemy is Radical Islam...not the Jews.  Believe me, if the arabs ever truly desire peace then EVERY single Jew (including the \"fanatics\" will come running to the table).\r\nSo, dear Noa, even though you mean well, do not be so apologetic for your people and morally confused.\r\nThe Jews are not to blame in this Gaza war.  Only Hamas and the people who support them are to blame, no one else.  And while innocent arab civilians are killed, it is a small price to pay to root out the cancer of radical Islam that is on our doorstep.\r\nI have pity for the arab civilians, but I value my own family more.  It's just human nature to protect your own family first.  \r\nOnly the arabs themselves can help their own people.  It is not the Jewish responsibility any more.  We have extended are hand in peace too many times.  There is a time for peace and a time for war....now, unfortunately, it is the time for war.\r\n","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"no to war","title":"Open letter to Noa","id":21988294,"location":"Haifa, northern Pal","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":25,"text":"Noa, it was zionism, not hamas that brought us to where we are. It was the state of israel that put Gaza in this position. Hamas is not hiding behind people nor in mosques, that is lies lies lies, why are you repeating lies? will you tell the Palestinians in Gaza what they already know is not the truth?\r\n\r\nwho will believe you there when they see very clearly that is israel that is bombing their houses, schools, mosques and hospitals under a false pretext claiming hamas was hiding there.\r\n\r\nTHEY ARE NOT STUPID.\r\n\r\nand they do not yell death to jews, they yell death to israel and with that they mean death to zionism, the same zionism that brought in settlers from all over the world while the native palestinians were kicked out and the remaining ones were occupied and opressed and besieged.\r\n\r\nStop the hypocrisy Noa, you can not claim to be for peace when you without any shame lie about hamas and blame them for what the zionists state of israel is doing.\r\n\r\n","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"","title":"But she's such a sweet pollyanna! ","id":21990450,"location":"","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":24,"text":"","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"","title":"amen 2and10-she makes me puke","id":21991662,"location":"","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":23,"text":"","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"glenn","title":"Noa> Stop and learn from a Lebanese Christian woman","id":21991564,"location":"ft. worth","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":22,"text":"before you get swept away with your lovely delusional yet well-intended dreams:  http://multimedia.heritage.org/content/wm/Lehrman-092706a.wvx\r\n","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"m","title":"One more "cellebritas" air-head","id":21990807,"location":"","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":21,"text":"First go live in Sderot, then I will believe you","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Ram","title":"#2","id":21984451,"location":"London","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":20,"text":"How do you know she has not sent cheques to Ashkelon, Ashdod, Sderot etc? You should be ashamed of yourself! Here is an internationally influential person whose patriotism is beyond question dedicating herself to do good and all you do is criticise her. Noa is probably one of the humblest artist in existence. Learn to give credit where credit is due.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Petra","title":"Noa stick to the lyrics","id":21986605,"location":"usa","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":19,"text":"don't ad lib.\r\nNo one cares about these pigs, no one.\r\nWake up lady, it's them or US.\r\np.s. what's w/ all this \"my brother crap'?\r\nRemember Cain?\r\nI do.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Kev","title":"What a load of dreck","id":21986631,"location":"London","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":18,"text":"\"I have seen the peace process rise and fall and rise like the breast of a woman breathing in the night.\"\r\n\r\nLOL ","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Micha","title":"Wonderful","id":21983980,"location":"Sydney, Australia","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":17,"text":"Words from the heart go straight to the heart. Noa I love you.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"doron","title":"Noa","id":21981678,"location":"kfar saba","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":16,"text":"This person Noa is delusional.  Was this written ten years ago?  Does this person live on planet Earth?","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"jason white","title":"Her "brothers" in gaza are killing Jews!","id":21983993,"location":"afula,israel","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":15,"text":"Who does she thinks she is.Either you are with us or against us. Why doesn't she take her camel face and sing for our troops?","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Omani Arab","title":"Dear Noa,","id":21984793,"location":"Muscat, Oman","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":14,"text":"Dear Noa, \r\n\r\nFanaticism exits on both sides.The source of Fanaticism is the Israeli  Occupation of Palestanian lands. End Israeli occupation, create opportunity for peace to exist, and you will auotmatically eradicate fanaticism & violence on both sides.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"David","title":"To #2 David: Well said!","id":21983495,"location":"Karmiel, Israel","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":13,"text":"The Palestinians in Gaza voted in a democratic election and chose Hamas knowing full well that the Hamas Charter calls for the destruction of the State of Israel and \"the killing of Jews\".\r\n\r\nBy supporting Hamas and accepting the misery that Hamas has brought on them proves that the Gazans, contrary to \"politically correct\" statements, ARE the enemy! 1.5 million people can throw out a few thousand fanatics with ease if the want to! They obviously don't.\r\n","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Proud Israeli Jew","title":"Achinoam","id":21985933,"location":"Israel","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":12,"text":"For once, she is saying something intelligent.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Omer","title":"can tell them to stop Qasam attacks?","id":21981253,"location":"USA","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":11,"text":"Noa: can you tell hamas to stop killing our kids?  \r\nNoa are you ok when you write such letter?! ","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Joe","title":"She "doesn't believe" those who yell "Itbah al Yahud"","id":21981905,"location":"Ramat Gan","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":10,"text":"I wonder if she believes that the gas chambers in Auschwitz were really just showers?\r\n\r\nSome idiots in this world just refuse to be convinced...","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Marilyn","title":"Gazans","id":21982888,"location":"USA","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":9,"text":"       She seems like a lovely lady.  Since it may be a long time before a truce, one thing that I was thinking is that it would be a good thing to set up safe areas for civilians.  Could put metal detectors at entrances, with soldiers, etc.  This could also serve as a makeshift hospital area, and meal site.  Good for public relations and all.  ","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"ahmad","title":"dear Noa","id":21981213,"location":"Nablus","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":8,"text":"the common enemy is those Zionists who came to my land and ethncleansed my people from our homeland: Palestine. such enemy who uprooted Jews from around the world and brought them here as colonists treating us as nothing.\r\n\r\nthe enemy is sitting at your government's house: Olmert & company from  Ben Gorion till now the same people who refused and still to allow my people to live like any human in their homeland.\r\n\r\nThe enemy my dear Noa is those fascists in your society, and there are many, who do want to \"encourage\" the Palestinians to leave Israel, those ones who stole our lands, fields, and homes, those who do not stop killing and spinning the murder of 50 children and their moms, yesterday, at an UNRWA school, a charge was denied by the UN's chief in Gaza.\r\n\r\nthe enemy, Noa, is not your extermists nor ours, it is the Sher ideology that prompted your Rabin (and his companion Perez) to ethnicleans tens of thousands of Palestinians from and around Yaffa in 1948.\r\n\r\nyou want peace? then jion those who oppose Zionism and join me in the struggle to create a one state for all based on human values, democracy and equality. Only then those \"extremists\" will disappear when the cause vanish.\r\n\r\nNo thanks, I will have my coffee with those who share my dream","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"A","title":"NOA.....","id":21981272,"location":"U.S.A","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":7,"text":"you left me with no words to say, you said it all, and so beautiful, i don't think anybody can top that one. you say it with deep passion, love, and concern, that even the dead heart would hear you and would hope to come back to a place where two countries, two nation can live in peace in the land of love. Please speak to the world, spread your words all around, it's the words we/they all needs to hear. and you know what, they know and understand you well, the fear is what truly kills them, and you, you, jsut brought some light and sun into thier hearts and soul. thank you for each word you spoke, thses word are the one who would heal the spread of the cancer/hamas.\r\nbe blessed and so would the rest of the region and all beit israel.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Ze'ev","title":"Rabin 1994?","id":21981405,"location":"Scottsdale USA","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":6,"text":"Short term memory loss my artistic Noa?  Rabin was shot in 1995...I was there too.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Joseph","title":"sweet dreams NOA","id":21984297,"location":"","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":5,"text":"Noa you have a sweet dreams ,,,, BUT , there will be no peace in Palestine , Israel should be erased or Palestinian will , ur Merkava and Apachi are killing armless children and women , your IDF closing all borders to kill whole people , what peace you're dreaming about ,,,","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Doreen","title":"nr. 2","id":21983500,"location":"Tel Aviv","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":4,"text":"It is people like you Noa is talking about......","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Noa you write nice","title":"Noa you write nice","id":21984364,"location":"","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":3,"text":"but you a little beat wrong. A lot of the Gaza Palestinian belive in Allah and they are very much religious. They belive womans must wear buraka and Higab (to cover there feaces). I know that so to speek from the horse mouth - Gaza mans and especialy womans! that I have spoken with them years ago and in the last months.\r\nI don't know if they still whant the rule of the Hamas, some of my Palestians acquaintances whant some don't, but most of them belive in the extrim Moslen religen. So I don't know if your words will full ontheir ears. Pity that no one man or woman in the Palestinian even Gaza side say something close to your writting.","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"david","title":"noa","id":21981002,"location":"jerusalem","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":2,"text":"pretentious writing from an egotistic personality. My dad used to say talk is cheap, but money buys whisky. If she is so concerned, perhaps she will send a nice fat cheque to the children in ashkelon/sederot","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0},{"LEVEL":1,"name":"Ben K","title":"I hope every Palestiniane reads this!","id":21981053,"location":"Australia","the_date":"08.01.09","tc":1,"text":"","userid":0,"parent_id":0,"recommended":"","ts":0,"thumb_image_path":"","bpc_is_display_talkbacks":false,"anti_pro":false,"talkback_source":0}],"hasmore":false}