THIS LETTER WILL PROBABLY NOT BE PUBLISHED BECAUSE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO I TOOK THE OZ TO THE PRESS COUNCIL [UNSUCCESSFULLY!!] RE JULIA GILLARD BEING DEPICTED IN A CARTOON BEING STRANGLED BY A STAR OF DAVID!!
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From: g87@optusnet.com.au
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 12:10 PM
To: the australian
Subject: Outrageous HUMBUG OF HENRY HERZOG
LETTER TO EDITOR
The Australian
I advise that your letter writer Henry Herzog Deceptive scoring [Letters
October 16] has a mere 2 and 3 days ago made the most outrageous of on – line
contributions on Jewish Journal Jwire.
Herzog made many posts recently: the most outrageous of which accuses
those who plainly outnumber him on this blog by a factor of probably 20 to 1 of
being responsible for the terrorists’ murder of ‘’innocent Israelis’’!
And he also somehow makes a similar direct comparison with Jews and with
the world’s most outrageous holocaust deniers David Irving and Frederick
Tobin.
His other posts are also abysmal: here is one:
I would rather eat glass than listen to your hateful
right- wing trash.
Perhaps Mr Herzog will in the nether world be held accountable: but in the
interim he could try to explain how he could so outrageously abuse mainstream
Jews via comparisons that fail the basic elements of style. And that is an
understatement.
Geoff Seidner
13 Alston Gr
East St Kilda 3183
03 9525 9299
Perfect
example of how those on the right who bleat the loudest about free speech,
pluralism and diverisity are the first, and second, ones to want to ban anyone
whose views are not perfectly in line with their narrow fearmongering world
view.
No one is saying that he shouldn’t be able to express his abhorent points of view, he should be given the same freedom to speak as is Dr Fredrick Toben, David Irving and others on the right. What is really alarming is the intellecturally defectient arguements posed by the right which are based on conspicy theories and fear. Nothing constructive coming from them, just name calling and hatred. And the fact that they urge Israel to take aggressive measures, as a result of which innocent Israelis get murdered, while they and their children remain safe and sound here, is cowardly, but only in my world view.
No one is saying that he shouldn’t be able to express his abhorent points of view, he should be given the same freedom to speak as is Dr Fredrick Toben, David Irving and others on the right. What is really alarming is the intellecturally defectient arguements posed by the right which are based on conspicy theories and fear. Nothing constructive coming from them, just name calling and hatred. And the fact that they urge Israel to take aggressive measures, as a result of which innocent Israelis get murdered, while they and their children remain safe and sound here, is cowardly, but only in my world view.
There you go Robert; the comparison is that, those on the
right only want to shut down extremist views with which they disagree, e.g.
Toben’s and Irving’s, not others like Feiglin who also preach hatred. And going
by what your mates are saying about Colin Rubenstein, he also could have caught
this leftist disease. I don’t know about this leftist disease being terminal,
but the rightist disease has proven to be, as history
shows.
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What happened to the Torah teaching us compassion,
kindness and not doing to others what you wouldn’t want done to you? Or would
you prefer to go down the path of the jihadists and see only the negatives and
how to punish those who you fear?
Deceptive scoring When conflict
arises between Israel and Palestinians, some media outlets describe Israel’s
actions as excessive and/or disproportionate, and give scores on how many have
been killed on both sides.
An Israeli
security officer shooting dead a knife wielding Palestinian who stabbed him,
soon after a number of Israelis were stabbed to death, is condemned as an
excessive use of force. If that’s so, how should the shooting death of Numan
Haider by police in Melbourne last year — after he had stabbed them — be
described?
And giving daily
scores on how many have been killed does not give a true picture. If
Palestinians weren’t killing civilians, they wouldn’t get killed. Furthermore,
no other conflict in the Middle East is scored in this deceptive and biased
way.
Henry Herzog, St Kilda,
Vic
