Comments on Shuck and Jive: IPMN is Doing Its Job

Thanks John. I really do believe that the vi...

2009-11-20T11:26:31.331-05:00
Thanks John.

I really do believe that the video is not anti-Semitic but a legitimate cry for help and for justice that we need to hear and feel.

I agree. I also agree with Barb Shuck's (no relation) comment.

I think the IPMN should have stood their ground, however, for the reason above and for the reason that Viola shouldn't be the one to dictate what is and what is not good for everyone. She has done this type of thing many times on more than one issue.

One thing people need to understand is the term &q...

2009-11-19T16:24:46.858-05:00
One thing people need to understand is the term "Semite". It's meaning is not as narrow as people think, and does not mean solely "Israeli Jew", as so often is assumed. After all, Palestinians are Semites, too. They also happen to be Israelis, for now.

This assumption is part of the history of mistreatment of Palestinian and Arab Israelis, and, I am sure, adds to their anger.

I just posted the following comment on that page: ...

2009-11-19T10:21:21.574-05:00
I just posted the following comment on that page:

I can understand and even appreciate the decision to remove the video. The edge of anger was hard to take and it was clearly unbalanced. However, people in the USA need to hear that anger and need to hear that pain. I appreciate Barb Shuck's comment and I am going to put it on my blog. She has been there and has seen and felt the pain. What Israel is doing with huge support from our government is wrong, horribly wrong. The video is an understandable reaction to the nightmare Barb describes. And she is only describing the little piece of it that she saw.

The charge of "anti-Semitism" is all too freely thrown about these days and should not be used in the context of this kind of outrageous oppression against the Palestinians. I am sick of hearing the label of "anti-Semitic" aimed so often and so erroneously at all of us advocing long overdue justice for the Palestinians.

I really do believe that the video is not anti-Semitic but a legitimate cry for help and for justice that we need to hear and feel.

You can see the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4gymxY2zM8&feature=player_embedded

John A Wilde
Whitesboro NY
love, john + www.abundancetrek.com + "Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (the speech containing this famous quote is found at http://www.indiana.edu/~ivieweb/mlkwhere.html)

Tried to help them, but if they want to give in to...

2009-11-19T01:36:35.082-05:00
Tried to help them, but if they want to give in to the busybodies that is their call.

Dang! That just encourages her!

2009-11-18T22:12:37.996-05:00
Dang! That just encourages her!

It appears that Viola got her way. The IPMN remov...

2009-11-18T17:03:09.539-05:00
It appears that Viola got her way. The IPMN removed the video.

2009-11-18T13:35:51.709-05:00
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Thanks John for calling my attention to it and for...

2009-11-18T11:34:49.974-05:00
Thanks John for calling my attention to it and for speaking out.

Thanks John. This is a fantastic post and I wil...

2009-11-18T11:10:42.481-05:00
Thanks John.

This is a fantastic post and I will link to it immediately at 2 of my blogs and at FB & Twitter.

I especially liked your reminder about what one of our confessions says:

"... to hear the voices of peoples long silenced,
and to work with others for justice, freedom, and peace."

We need to hear and respond to anger and frustration and despair by both Palestinians and Israelis, by Jews and Arabs. Indeed we need to hear and respond to the cries of all human beings.

love,
John A Wilde
Whitesboro NY
+ www.abundancetrek.com + "The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, humankind will have discovered fire." -- Teilhard de Chardin

You should watch some other films on its website i...

2009-11-18T10:48:10.655-05:00
You should watch some other films on its website including Steadfast Hope: The Palestinian Quest for a Just Hope.