[lbo-talk] New look at Yom Kippur war

[Marv Gandall]

I didn't consider my time wasted. I thought the Soviet ambassador's observations were interesting, though, like the speculation about Hitler's son, I also don't know what to make of them or whether Shamir reported them accurately. Shamir is creepy, but that's mostly (though not wholly) beside the point. 

On 2012-02-23, at 5:59 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:


> Well, apologies for wasting people's time. I didn't know what to make of it, so I thought I'd forward.
> 
> Joanna
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> Yah, Shamir is a complete whack job. 
> 
> Years ago, I would always see (and hear) him at israeli political and anti-occupation meetings in Tel Aviv, but he eventually stopped coming when the Israeli Left activists realized that he was mentally disturbed. That was just about the time I began to see him come up and be referenced and published in international Left publications and discussions of Israel/Palestine issues (I guess he saw he wasn't able to sway the local activists who were in the know, so he began to focus on a less knowledgable international audience...and got increasingly ridiculous in his writings as he began to gain a 'following').
> 
> I happily hadn't seen his writings mentioned in a few years and thought he had crawled under some rock. Sadly that isn't the case. 
> 
> Pretty damn low for Counterpunch to print his ramblings... (not that I read the article, I stopped when I saw who the author was)...
> 
> Bryan
> 
> On Feb 23, 2012, at 14:25, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> 
>> Israel Shamir is awful, and it's sad that CP publishes him. E.g.:
>> 
>> 
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk