Comments on: Haniyeh and his Israeli sisters: wartime tales from Gaza and Israel

By: Lisa Goldman

Lisa Goldman — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:26:33 +0000

Jillsy, I know I wrote a long post, so trust me I’m not judging when I say you didn’t read it thoroughly. There is a link to the Hamas Charter – which I have indeed read. And as for the Koran and Mohammed, have you read the Old Testament lately?

By: Jillsy

Jillsy — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:06:35 +0000

but have you tried

Er Lisa?

Not that I’m into killing or anything, but when Israel has left Gaza, ages ago gave the Sinai to Egypt and done a whole bunch of other stuff too numerous to mention to show desire to live in peace with the arabs and they still attack….then yeah.

I’d say they TRIED.

Out of interest – have you read the Hamas Charter?
Do you know about the Islamic imperatives as defined by the Koran and Mohammed? If not, read them. Then you’ll understand the real battle.

By: motele

motele — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:04:03 +0000

מעניין מאוד.
קראתי בעיתון הארץ שיש לך גישה לבלוג של דושקה וגם לבלוגים נוספים באיזור.
אני רוצה להפיץ מנשר לדיאלוג כן
האם תוכלי להנחות אותי איך להיכנס לבוג של דושקה וגם לאחרים?
בתודה
מאטעלע

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By: PeaceMiddleEast

PeaceMiddleEast — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:16:22 +0000

Dear Lisa
Thank you, for putting into words, the struggles, and real world realities of the problems that are happening on the ground, in Israel, and through the voices of your friends, and colleagues, of what is really happening in Gaza. Like you I abhor the terror, and violence, as a humanitarian tragedy, and believe solutions can be found that don’t require the complete annihilation of the other…
I pray that a solution, or middle way surfaces, to help bring this conflict to a grinding halt.. and allow us the chance to live in a world of peace.. A world where people do not have to continue being murdered unnecessarily, for crimes they didn’t do, opinions they don’t hold, or ideas that they don’t subscribe to..
May we one day have peace in the Middle East.
Thanks for sharing – it gives me hope, when I know that real people can share what’s really happening Please keep on sharing out, through twitter, ur blog, and facebook

By: Stan R

Stan R — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:15:29 +0000

I had to write you Lisa.
I am confused by your blog. In one part of the blog you believe in miracles but on other part you come accross as a secular common sense person.

I believe there is a very simple explonation of the jewish-arab antagonizm but very difficult remedy. The Arab friends live emmotionally in middle ages when they were superpower. Unfortunatelly Jews are more complicated, we say we are almost 6000 years old. We Jews are emmotional wrecks, we worry us and we worry about our enemies.

If you read our Arab friends postings, they have difficulty to understand why we worry and are upset about “few stupid soldiers kidnap and killed”. You worry about the videos from Gaza made by Norwegian Doctor which are as we later learn, a pure propaganda – Pollywood. Just to inform you – he run away to Egypt. I like to watch on video narrated in Arabic where young Palestinian girl stand between young Palestinian boys throwing stones and 2 Israeli soldiers and telling them don’t shoot “they are young kids” and soldiers just stand. When I watch it, I think, what would happen if those 2 soldiers were Hamas and young Jewish girl would be standing there?

I did not move to Israel in 60s because I did not want to fight Arabs. I did not move to USA because I did not want to fight in Vietnam.
But I believe in just war. The incursion to Gaza is a just war. Hamas has to be stoped. They are tribal 7th century entity with no concept of modern feelings for other human beings.

By: Liza R

Liza R — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:23:41 +0000

John Oh, I have to say that I found your comment addressed to Lisa to be rather patronizing, as though she requires someone to patiently explain what the situation is simply because you don’t agree with her opinions. If you don’t agree with what she wrote, that’s perfectly acceptable, but that certainly doesn’t render her opinions to be invalid.

Lisa isn’t speaking in support of Hamas – she’s speaking against the deaths of innocent Palestinian civilians (and doing so most eloquently). I know Lisa, and I know that she doesn’t support Hamas. She has a perfectly legitimate right to express her frustration about what’s been happening, and now matter how you try to spin it, we can’t escape the fact that nearly 1000 Palestinians have been killed during the past 15 days – killed by Israel.

I must admit that I find it very disturbing that you seem to think that you understand the situation better than Lisa does, given that she comes across in an intelligent manner and has clearly spent a great deal of time researching these issues and getting to know people from all sides of this horrible conflict.

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