[Peace-discuss] revocation of Salaita's job offer

[C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss]

Hi, Roger. 

Hope you're having a nice day. Unlike the thousands whom the US has arranged to kill this summer in Gaza and Donbass. 

Is it quite right to say that "we have no US military aircraft or forces based in Israel" when the US taxpayer has paid for all those Israeli forces?

Here's my finger, but not on the keyboard.

Regards, Carl


On Aug 6, 2014, at 6:13 PM, Roger Helbig via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Carl,
> 
> You are a mindless opponent of Israel and defender of Hamas - any lie
> that agrees with your preconceived ideas is fine with you and you make
> up your own as well - Israel is not a stationary aircraft carrier - no
> US military aircraft have ever operated from Israel - we have no US
> military aircraft or forces based in Israel.  Get the facts first,
> then put your finger on the keyboard.
> 
> Roger
> 
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:56 PM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss
> <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>> Cary has become incoherent:
>> <http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/university-illinois-fires-professor-steven-salaita-after-gaza-massacre-tweets>.
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 6, 2014, at 3:46 PM, C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> http://coreyrobin.com/2014/08/06/another-professor-punished-for-anti-israel-views/
>> 
>> "...in recent years [Cary] Nelson has become an outspoken defender of the
>> State of Israel and a critic of the BDS movement..."
>> 
>> I don't think BDS is above criticism - Chomsky and Finkelstein makes sense
>> on the subject, it seems to me - nor do I think the question of academic
>> boycott (in fact a vague phrase) is open and shut. But the Salaita matter is
>> clear, and I'm appalled to find Cary Nelson on the wrong side of it.
>> 
>> --CGE
>> 
>> On Aug 6, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Paul Mueth via Peace-discuss
>> <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I wrote Wise with her own quote at time of ASA BDS issue.
>> 
>> In case this hasn't already been posted, here's Wise on the ASA support for
>> a boycott: "At Illinois, we value academic freedom as one of our core
>> principles and cherish the critical importance of the ability of faculty to
>> pursue learning, discovery and engagement without regard to political
>> considerations...."
>> 
>> Cary Nelson was on Dem Now at that time and was awful. He apparently wanted
>> to outdo himself.
>> http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/university-illinois-fires-professor-steven-salaita-after-gaza-massacre-tweets
>> 
>> Wretched times.
>> 
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