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sheila19621
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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Location: Israel
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 Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:09 pm Post subject: Amazon touts anti-Israeli views, |
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On July 4, Amazon spammed its customers with advertisement of Norman Finkelstein's virulently anti-Semitic book, Image and Reality of the Israeli-Palestine Conflict. On May 30, Amazon similarly advertised Beyond Chutzpah: on the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. I have never received any other ad from Amazon.
On April 4, in an unprecedented move, Amazon deleted all reviews of Obadiah Shoher's Samson Blinded: A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict. A few days later, Amazon forced its subsidiary Booksurge to terminate publishing contract with Shoher whose book is now available for download from www.- abuse alert - . Google earlier banned advertising of the Samson Blinded for "unacceptable content." Shoher, indeed, is pro-Israeli, yet realistic and critical of Israeli policies.
Obadiah Shoher, an anonymous politician, abandons myths and moralizing in favor of realpolitik. He argues for raw efficiency of antiterrorist operations and shedding liberal idealism. Shoher asks inconvenient questions and gives honest answers. Amazon does not like that. Anti-Semitic lampoons by Norman Finkelstein are more to Amazon's taste. |
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Richard Haut
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Sheila
I am surprised that you did not mention that both Google and Yahoo had banned Obadiah Shoher's book site for having “unacceptable content.”
No doubt Google, Yahoo and Amazon are as virulent in their antisemitism as Colin Powell when he said "It is not antisemitic to criticise the policies of the state of Israel ..."
Shalom (inshallah)
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