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May 23, 9:11 PMNY Israel Conflict ExaminerRichard Shulman

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If you are considering challenging an article of mine, please check the link I usually provide to an earlier article that backs it up.

I study regional history and compare sources over time.  I’ve learned which ones are how reliable.  I’ve reached major conclusions, but expect controversy over news too fresh to be sure of it.  If you find an error or a flaw in my logic, please correct me.  I don’t want to utilize any erroneous notion, regardless of whether it bolsters my conclusions.  If you have additional information to share, please do.  I welcome constructive suggestions.

I do not welcome irrelevant comments that just emote against Zionism and me.  They waste everybody else’s time.  When they omit facts and just make generalized accusations with epithets, they probably disgust most Americans.  Lacking facts, they smear the writer.  Please know that my personal critics do not know me personally, when they offer insult, such as to call me a liar.  I don’t take it as insult, because it says more about them, than about me.  Vicious remarks directed at me and because of my ethnic origin reveal intemperate personality if not mental imbalance.  Those commentators either do not know how to conduct themselves like adults or use vituperation as a form of combat.

Like jihadists, they don’t care about the accuracy of their mud, but hope that some will stick.  My response will be to shame their nastiness and show one of their remarks to be so absurd and perverted as to render the rest dubious.

Within their stream of vituperation usually comes a claim that I simply hate.  They, who write in the verbiage of hatred, do not cite such language in my articles.  It is a telling omission.

I simply oppose terrorists who set out to murder innocent civilians.   I oppose totalitarians who would squelch freedom and impose cruel and backward mores.  I oppose that culture whether Nazi, Communist, or Radical Islamic.  I’m open to facts.

Another claim is that I “parrot Zionist propaganda.”  What “Zionist propaganda?” 
They envision a big, central Israeli agency for promoting a monolithic Zionist ideology.  Israel does not have one, and has removed the little it had from its Foreign Ministry.  Israel’s ruling class largely is post-Zionist.  The West, still I appeasement mode, hardly has raised its consciousness about jihad.  The critics’ claim is baseless.