In response to yesterday’s blog, Jeff Halper (pictured) of the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions sent us the following email:
Honest reporting? Here’s what you write:
“Jeff Halper compares Hamas to Mohandas Gandhi” [with a weak caveat whatever that means].
Then YOU quote me writing:
“He writes in the Toronto Star:…”This is not to equate Hamas with Gandhi…”
Helllllooooo…..are you listening to yourselves? The issue is not, of course, your willing distortion for ideological purposes (not exactly “honest,” but hey…), but of the fundamental bad faith that underlies your willing distortions. So there’s no point in “discussing” with you (or “backspinning,” in your jargon) your knowing falsifications. Just to wonder two things: (1) in those moments when you are alone with yourselves opposite the mirror, how do you rationalize distortion and dishonesty in the name of honesty (sounds pretty Orwellian to me); and (2) As an Israeli, I wonder how in the hell you think this kind of “dirty tricks” can possibly help Israel — or bring any honor to us Israelis as Jews?
Jeff Halper
