[Peace-discuss] The Truth is Out

[C. G. Estabrook]

Good of you to make light of it, David, but it's a particularly nasty
attack. Yairi is obviously not up to arguing the facts with you, so he
falls back to the lowest form of academic obfuscation -- that you're "not
a scholar" and he's a university professor (of speech and hearing,
forsooth)!  That sort of malign nonsense can't be allowed to stand, and
the best response is (you should excuse the expression) "the facts on the
ground," which you have been regularly describing so well.  --CGE


On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, David Green wrote:

> I've tried so hard to keep this a secret, but now it's out in the DI.
> I guess now I'm just going to have to bring peace to the Middle East,
> and win the Cubs the World Series--otherwise I'm hardly worthy of
> being the founder of the next great world religion. Actually, I really
> just wanted to be Moses, but I couldn't find a pair of sandals
> suitable for mountain climbing, and Chuck Heston wouldn't let me
> borrow his. One would at least think that being God would help you
> score with chicks, but these modern feminist types just aren't buying
> that line anymore.
> 
> 
> God is Green
> 
> 
> Letter | The Daily Illini Published Thursday, February 19, 2004
> 
> For too long have I read David Green's endless pathological hate
> letters about Israel, letters that are full of lies and distortions.
> His last piece published in the DI (2/9) only highlights the true
> nature of his strong hate-based views masquerading as scholarship. It
> is that kind of "scholarship" displayed from all places and without
> shame on the campus of a great university that leads one to recall the
> saying that some scientists think that they believe only in what they
> see, but they are much better at believing than seeing. Thus, for all
> of Green's self-proclamations, one thing is clear: a scholar he is
> not. So what, or who, is he? According to Green's past letters, none
> of those who ever speak or write critically about Palestinian
> murderous terrorist activities have any "real" knowledge of the
> subject. In Green's eyes, it is only he who knows the truth and knows
> it at all times, and it is only he who speaks the truth and speaks it
> at all times. Being omnipotent, all-seeing, all knowing and faultless
> in his judgment, one may be inclined to believe that, perhaps, Mr.
> Green is God. Indeed, it appears that he, too, has come to believe it.
> Thus, we can understand, with a bit of pity in our hearts, why it
> makes little difference to him whether his arguments bear witness to
> historical reality or not. His "reality" is anything and everything
> that suits his purpose. It wouldn't be surprising if our conservative
> state legislators became even more hesitant to fund a university where
> too many employees not only pretend to be scholars but are also ready
> to believe that the almighty is replaceable. Predictably, soon we will
> again suffer one of Green's responses, complaining, as always, about
> being persecuted by uneducated people, such as me.
> 
> 
> Ehud Yairi
> 
> University professor
>