Saturday, July 03, 2004
I sent this letter in to the Australian Jewish News on 1 July 2004, having been nauseated by the articles and letters in the AJN relating to Margo Kingston's new book called "NOT HAPPY, JOHN" and the chapter in it by Antony Loewenstein about the Hanan Ashrawi peace prize debacle which occurred in New South Wales some months ago. It will indeed be interesting to see whether the AJN will print this one.
The AJN printed my previous letter, sent on 26 June 2004 on gay marriage and religion, which is below in an earlier blog, and although it has been cut somewhat, the main parts of it are still in the letter.
Mannie De Saxe
PO Box 1675
Preston South
Vic 3072
Phone:(03) 9471 4878
email: josken@zipworld.com.au
web: http://www.zipworld.com.au/~josken
Dr Colin Rubenstein is quoted in an article in the AJN (25 June 2004), criticizing Margo Kingston and Antony Lowenstein because they “----utterly fail to dent in any way the factual case made by AIJAC, the AJN and all mainstream Jewish bodies that Hanan Ashrawi was an inappropriate recipient for a peace prize ------”.
There are approximately 100,000 Jews in Australia. Not all are zionists, not all accept the “facts” as presented to them by self-styled, so-called representatives of the “mainstream” Jewish/zionist organisations.
Strangely enough, there are still large numbers of Jews in Australia who interpret the “facts” differently, and come to different conclusions, and I and many others are sick and tired of having “their facts” quoted at us as being the mainstream, and the only acceptable answers to the Israel/Palestine problem.
After Rubenstein and others of his ilk have registered to have votes cast for these bodies by the Australian Electoral Commission and ensured that 100% of the Australian Jewish population have cast their votes should he dare to make his presumptuous assumptions, and draw his equally presumptuous - and outrageously arrogant - conclusions.
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The AJN printed my previous letter, sent on 26 June 2004 on gay marriage and religion, which is below in an earlier blog, and although it has been cut somewhat, the main parts of it are still in the letter.
Mannie De Saxe
PO Box 1675
Preston South
Vic 3072
Phone:(03) 9471 4878
email: josken@zipworld.com.au
web: http://www.zipworld.com.au/~josken
Dr Colin Rubenstein is quoted in an article in the AJN (25 June 2004), criticizing Margo Kingston and Antony Lowenstein because they “----utterly fail to dent in any way the factual case made by AIJAC, the AJN and all mainstream Jewish bodies that Hanan Ashrawi was an inappropriate recipient for a peace prize ------”.
There are approximately 100,000 Jews in Australia. Not all are zionists, not all accept the “facts” as presented to them by self-styled, so-called representatives of the “mainstream” Jewish/zionist organisations.
Strangely enough, there are still large numbers of Jews in Australia who interpret the “facts” differently, and come to different conclusions, and I and many others are sick and tired of having “their facts” quoted at us as being the mainstream, and the only acceptable answers to the Israel/Palestine problem.
After Rubenstein and others of his ilk have registered to have votes cast for these bodies by the Australian Electoral Commission and ensured that 100% of the Australian Jewish population have cast their votes should he dare to make his presumptuous assumptions, and draw his equally presumptuous - and outrageously arrogant - conclusions.
