And I’ll stay here and post as I like when I like, so tough shit ;-)

A moron that doesn’t have enough mojo to invent an original insult and enough integrity to retract (or apologize for) his atrocious statement is looking for an excuse by attacking others?

Anal lice has more gumption and smells better too…

Begone, you sorry excuse for a sick amoeba.

“Israelis are not inherently better or worse than their neighbours…””

Where is the logical fallacy there? There is none.

“What kind of freaking defense of Israel is it?”

It isn’t a defence of Israel, it’s a statement of fact. If you disagree, demonstrate why it’s wrong.

“Who is applying different standards?

Not me. Only a racist who believes Israelis to be inherently better or worse than their neighbours.

You are perhaps drunk. You are certainly incoherent. Go and have a good rest, you stupid incarticulate cunt.

Sorry, man (woman/whatever): you have already proved conclusively that you are a cunt. Now you are trying to out-logic Francis on the quite complex matter of applying moral standards to nations with a lot of hooey, while committing a logical fallacy at the start of the discussion:

“Israelis are not inherently better or worse than their neighbours…”

What kind of freaking defense of Israel is it? Who is applying different standards? Now you have seriously pissed me off, and me an Israeli…

Watch out, Stanislaw.

What a pile of manure. My three-year old can argue more rationally than that.
(a) What Israel allegedly “holds itself up to” is irrelevant. We are talking about YOU having double standards. See (c).
(b) The whole concept of Israel “holding itself up to” anything is nonsense. Various politicians have said various things. They do not affect the way that Israelis ARE.
(c) What you are being criticised for is not ‘mild censure’ but applying different standards to different nations. It’s called hypocrisy and racism.

I leave that for others who can read my words in more than scan-and-react mode

In other words, you can’t address the arguments so you throw your toys out of the pram. Pathetic.

It is also laughable to be accused of antisemitism, or at the very least anti-Israel bias, when in an online piece for the Guardian some years ago I argued that Israel’s bombing of the Gaza City power plant could be justified on humanitarian as well as military grounds. I’ve since resigned from that once august organ’s roster of shit-stirring opinionistas, on the grounds that the experience was simply more trouble than it was worth, and always seemed to leave a nasty taste in the mouth.

I plead guilty to being an arsey polemicist. But an antisemite? Well, I leave that for others who can read my words in more than scan-and-react mode to comment on. For example, I am well aware that my friend the esteemed Elder Snoopus the Goon does not agree in full with the “righteous nation” standard. But that’s fine, as neither do I, entirely. I was at the time making a rhetorical point, and there is seemingly little space for nuance in contemporary political discourse.

http://simplyjews.blogspot.com/2009/11/confession-i-am-anti-semite.html

Yeah, and HP could do with some moderation indeed: this re Stanislaw’s brilliant sentiment. Bleh…

“He offered more than an illogical slogan and a strawman: he offered personal abuse, which is hardly surprising given that he also excuses antisemitism.”

I know, but in fairness I wasn’t entirely polite either. I agree with your other points. I focused on the faulty logic because I don’t want to be accused of simply and solely using the anti-semitism tag.

I don’t know if Francis is anti-semitic – I suspect the opposite – but whether intentionally or not, he is, as you say, using a racist and anti-semitic frame of logic which is identical to that used by those who simply hate Jews and want to criticise Israel all the time. And in practice it amounts to the same thing – more criticism for Israel, and by corollary less for some of the world’s most repressive regimes.

Simonh,
Thanks for the clarification.
In that case, any claim they may have that they are a democratic organisation is nonsensical.