Fidel, It’s funny that you don’t even try to address the political substance of my comments.  You don’t have any interest in substantive argument, do you?  Everything is personal for you, isn’t it?  Maybe you don’t recall, but, my first comment on Truthdig directed to you was a genuine inquiry, inviting a genuine, rational, reasonable response, that was met with pure, naked, irrational, hate!

Well, don’t impute your hatred on me, or anyone else, Fidel.  You’ve expressly, explicitly, confessed your hatred of Israel and jews on this and other threads many times.  What you give, I give you back in kind. Not because I hate you, but because you deserve it. 

Fidel, there ARE many who truly hate arabs, islam and muslims.  Most of them are primitive, tribalistic, christians, though, I know of a few tribalistic, jewish haters as well.  Their hate is irrational, almost psychopathic and, in my opinion, a defense mechanism that they use to try to hide the fact that they are weak.  Unlike them, (and you), I do not hate arabs or muslims.  I reject arab, islamist, fundamentalist, hate and predatory evangelism (exactly like a christian), with the amount of force necessary under the circumstances! 

I can’t say that I am close friends with any arabs or muslims.  But, the few that I do know, including a Palestinian refugee/restauranteur, are quite decent, rational, reasonable people.  You, Fidel, are not one of them.

Howie, you only post when the words Israel and jewish are posted.  All other articles at Truthdig which cover a myriad of subjects and we don’t hear a peep from you, what gives?

Dear Fadel,

Lefty is like that. Ya kinda have to get to know him. I can well remember getting into some heated exchanges with him over a year ago, until I continued to read from him over time.

He has a bit of a ‘different’ sense of humor, and occassionally manages to squeeze 18 words of profanity into a 20 word post.

STILL, I’ve grown to appreciate him.

My favorite (and I still laugh about this everytime I see a post from Lefty) is his name for Ahmadinejad. Now, I don’t mean this irreverantly, (and I don’t know if Lefty did or not) because I actually like Ahmadinejad. That said, I still have fits of laughter at Lefty’s name for him, which is..

Imadinnerjacket.

There is no possible translation (that I know of at least) for this, to Arabic or Persian, but in English, it does bring a chuckle.