Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist. He was born in Jerusalem in 1955. He is a former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University in the United States. Mr. Kuttab is the former director of the Institute of Modern Media at Al Quds University in Ramallah, Palestine and the founder of AmmanNet, the Arab world's first internet radio station. His personal web page is www.daoudkuttab.com.
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Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist. He was born in Jerusalem in 1955. He is a former Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University in the United States.
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Here we go again: "let us not be controlled by the Jews, Saddam is a secular leader ,we can do bisinesss with him (the 80:eighties favorite).
The Israelis are saying Saddam is a homicidal psychopath but that is just a smear". Well, we cosied up and he still went after Kuwait.
The same arguments in Stalin´s Kreml:"Hitler is a rational leader.He just happens to (rightly)hate the Jews.Let us get rid of the jew Litvinov and
make a deal and divide Poland and the Baltics with Adolf".And Adolf still attacked a Russsia with its pants down. Show me one leader or political system that have been strongly antisemitic but
a blessing for humanitiy in its total.(I admit thoughthere have been leaders f.e. Napoleon symphatetic to jews but perhaps less of a blessing for others)
America has a Special Relationship with Israel! They are a welfare state of the United States and are supposed to be great allies. Where did they ever show that they were allies. They never lifted a finger to aid us in any of our wars and we really didn't want them to because of their horrible reputation in the world. With friends like that, who needs enemies. We give them billions of dollars every year, with no questions asked and they show their appreciation by spying on us and stealing our military secrets. Now, they are worried about Iran and will try to have the US fight another war for them. Why does the US kiss their asses and what do we get for it? We fear Israel for some unknown reasons and will continue to bribe them every year even if we have to borrow the money from China. Hillary will give them anything they want or need because of our great "special relationship"? We will get nothing but trouble from Israel as long as they exist.
Would it not be more apt for a Palestinian/Jordanian to focus on the dollars
Us taxpayers have contributed to Mr Arafats Pl0
of which money no trace can be found,than to constantly wine about how the spoiled Israelis
incessantly rob their Us-Christian benefactors,
the ungrateful jew being a favorite subject among
the Arab chattering classes.Obviously the Jews
will never attain the level of gratitude shown
by the Muslim world when, after years of Us support for the fight against Soviet Union (not to mention the Serbs)our Saudi allies murdered
3000 Americans.By the way ,one should mention that as Hollywood as well as the rest of Us creative production, according to current Arab thinking,is controlled by the jews, the bemoaned
piracy mus tbe just a case of Jews robbing Jews.
How many other of America's "allies" routinely spy within our government and military in order to influence our steal our secrets and influence foreign policy...
Also, watch out for the upcoming AIPAC trail - if the media gives it any play, that is.
Funny which stories the "free press" decides to highlight and which it doesn't.
I wonder who owns the NYTs, Washington Post, and LA Times?
This is so profoundly stupid, I don't even no where to begin. Doesn't WaPo have hiring criteria?
Been to racist Egypt lately? The country to which we give five billion dollars annually, which uses that money to buy weapons to give to Palestinian Muslims who then blow up Israelis?
Meanwhile, Egyptians are starving. Let's not even talk about Israel's food shortages, bread lines.
And Egypt, our homie, doesn't have to ask our "permission" to do anything.
HELLO? Never seen pirated DVD's in Egypt, Syria, Jordan (amazing). My all-time favorite is Pakistan, where pirated DVDs are the only kind available. I know. Been there. Saw that.
If anyone on this has ever had their house taken from them and forced to live generations in an internment camp, because of some story that was written thousands of years ago please raise your hand. If not then quit crying for Israel. Meanwhile your everyday existence is comprised of checkpoints causing delays of hours just to go to work or school. In addition an occupying force rations off all the means for you to live and tries to humiliate and dehumanize your people on a daily basis. This happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany. They said never again would it happen to them. It has not, but they have used that reason to commit the atrocities above to the Palestinian people. Yes Hitler did try to eradicate the Jews. No one cares anymore. That does not give Israel the right to do what they do. The strings on that fiddle are all but worn out. The world has to take a good look at who the true enemies are. The sooner the US does not deal with Israel the better. One final note, Israel tops the list of countries that spy on the US, even higher than China. This will never be published but it is widely accepted in the intelligence community.
Once again, anyone can take a single aspect of bilateral relations between two countries and put it under a microscope. Let's broaden the discussion a bit - how many Israeli's were hijackers on 9/11? By your logic, we should be deducting our financial losses incurred from 9/11 against money due to Saudia Arabia for oil.
Other countries in the Middle East besides Israel harm us much worse financially than the Israelis do. Yes, okay, mention the subsidies to Israel if you want. What about the equally staggering aid we give to Saudi Arabia and Egypt??? What have they done for us lately? I'm waiting.
It's amazing to me that rather than focus on what Palestinian society can do in oder to gain its independence, your spend your time lambasting Israel. A little introspection would be appreciated.
Your disgusting attacks on Jews reveal the blackness and idiocy of your intellects. "the raping of America?" The nonsense that you foolish, anti-semitic monkeys will resort to is just astounding. Hateful and biased cowards like yourselves only reveal yourselves in the anonymity of chat rooms. I'd love to see you voice your trash in a context where your opinions and assertions can be disputed.
Apparently the US does have a number of vices with Israel.
See this from the Wikipedia entry on Software Piracy.
"The copyright infringement of software (also known as software piracy) refers to several practices which involve the unauthorized copying of computer software. Copyright infringement of this kind is extremely common in the United States, Mexico, China, Indonesia, Russia, Brazil, Zimbabwe and several other parts of the world."
Teva pharmaceutical is guilty, imho, of intellectual property theft with their production of a generic version of an america medicine that is still under patent protection here in the usa....they are counting on the slowness of the courts to force an agreement with the american manufacturer....imho, they are THIEVES
Ironic? What is ironic is that the Current Discussion is "Media Piracy" and, as usual, a Palestinian has stolen the forum and turned it into a diatribe against Israel. Remember 1972? The current discussion was "Olympic Spirit" when a Palestinian stole the forum in Munich and turned it into an attack against Israel. Remember 1968? The discussion was "Presidential Politics" and a Palestinian in Los Angeles assassinated the Democratic front-runner and blamed it on Israel. Irony? The real irony here is a Palestinian "journalist" accusing someone else of "media piracy". I guess you can take the Arab out of the Barbary Coast, but you can't take the Barbary Coast out of the Arab.
But as we all know, the jews have weasled themselves into every facet of government and banking in America, so the status quo will likely never change.
It will take a strong new leader someday down the road to end the mindless, endless support of Israel.
We REAL Americans can only hope that it is SOONER than LATER.
Israel has been sodomizing the U.S. freely since the U.S. government sided with it against the crew of the U.S.S. Liberty. That was pretty much a signal it could get away with pretty much anything and get paid for doing it.
Americans are just dumb patsies. It must be all the fast food and dimwitted t.v. What a sad end for a once-great country.
What is astonishing is that such a small country as Israel has such a disproportionately high US copyright violation footprint. That's how Israel made it on the Copyright Violation Watch List. If this were perpetrated by another country, would we not expect US politicians (as they do for China and Russia) to apply pressure on Israel to crack down on pirates instead of having Israel removed from the Watch List?
It is in Israel's interest to help us fight terrorists who attack both the US and Israel. But, as Benjamin Netanyahu publicly said, 9/11 was great for Israel because it brought the US closer to Israel. Overall, is it not fair to say that the US has a terrorist problem largely because of the antagonism that our policies, including support for Israel, generate in the Middle East? Does anyone really believe that "they hate us because of our freedoms"?
And no, we are not protecting Darfur. The atrocities continue.
It's seems the writer is a little bit frustrated on his place in the conflict between Israel and the palatines. So he is trying to make weak arguments to change the situation in the region.
Israel is maybe a leader in online piracy, but the whole nation is only about 7 million people, which a big share of them includes Arabs that are more Palestine's then Israelis. The number of computers is high, but is not 100%, moreover not everyone steals. It seems the writer in interested in complaining on a group of few million people, that aid United States interests in a way no other company world is. Israel lies in the heart of global terrorism, and no other nation does so much for so long to fight global terror.
President Bush protects Sudan with her Darfur genocide, for valuable information on terror activity, is Israel really the main priority at these times?
What complete nonsense! Arab living in Israel and the territories are nice people.
But the Palestinians as a national entity are completely useless and a total failure. So much so, the Arab petro$$s find there way into places far away from them. Mooch off them and forget about Aipac and the Jewish lobby. you are moaning and groaning about nothing.
What you Arabs need is a little less mosque nonsense and a little more University.
Dave: Of course Israel has a great hi-tech industry. Our massive subsidies to Israel helps them in any industrial endeavor they chose. Take away the US taxpayers' subsidies, and we'll see how far their tech industry goes.
Elizabeth Renant: Spare us your pious rants about the evils of Palestinians. Why should the Palestinians speak out about Darfur when Israel is suffocating them? The Palestinians have enough to worry about courtesy of Israel. Israel is not only committed to the destruction of Palestine, it has already accomplished it! Palestinians are justified in calling for Israel's destruction the same way anyone evicted from their house can call for the destruction of the thieves. Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese since 1947 and has the gall to complain about Palestinians taking revenge. It's like the SS complaining that they were shot at in the Warsaw Ghetto.
As for Arafat, let's see, how many Israeli cabinet members are being prosecuted for rape? Wait, rape is his specialty, rape of the Palestinians. Oh, now I see, it's OK.
Maybe you should reenact Dier Yassin. Hey, Mommy, I just killed 140 Palestinians and took their land! A real mitzvah!
Yes it is fair-but, first,U need to get rid of the monolithic jewish lobby in DC such as AIPAC and the forty three jewish members of US congress.
No justice will ever be attained for America except when it frees its soul from the suffocating bondage of the jewish lobby which has and contiunes to abuse the US and its power to serve the apartheid state.
Not only does the apartheid jewish theocracy steal from the US but it spies on it using American jews and thus compromising the loyalty of American jewery beyond repair:observe Johnathan Pollard and lately Ben Khadish!!!
Why would American lawmakers try to get Israel off the Priority Watch List, an effort replicated for no other country on that list? What does that mean?
For those who seem to think this copyright violation issue is concocted by disgruntled antisemites:
US targets China, Russia, 7 other nations on copyrights
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER – Apr 25, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration is accusing China, Russia and seven other nations of failing to protect American producers of movies, computer software and other copyrighted material from widespread piracy.
The administration on Friday placed the nine countries on a "priority watch list" that will subject them to extra scrutiny and could eventually lead to economic sanctions — if the administration decides to pursue complaints before the World Trade Organization.
In addition to China and Russia, the other seven countries targeted were Argentina, Chile, India, Israel, Pakistan, Thailand and Venezuela.
The administration named another 31 countries to a lower-level watch list, indicating it has concerns about copyright violations in those nations but they don't warrant the highest level of scrutiny.
Because of improvements in their efforts to protect U.S. intellectual property rights, four countries — Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and Ukraine — were taken off the "priority" list where they were last year and placed on the lower-level watch list.
While business groups praised the report, Oxfam, the international aid organization, criticized the document for targeting Thailand and India for their policies of making low-cost generic drugs available to poor people to battle HIV-AIDS and other diseases.
Rohit Malpani, an Oxfam policy adviser, said that 80 percent of the generic drugs used in developing nations to combat AIDS were manufactured in India while Thailand is supplying generic drugs to poor people in that country.
"Thailand is reducing the costs of key medicines to treat AIDS, cancer and heart disease and India has become the pharmacy for the developing world. What the administration is doing is completely inappropriate," he said, arguing that both countries have the right to do what they are doing under global trade rules.
Under rules supported by the WTO, countries can issue so-called compulsory licenses to disregard patent rights, but only after negotiating with the patent owners and paying them adequate compensation. If they declare a public health emergency, governments can skip the negotiating.
In releasing the annual report, which is required by Congress, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said copyright piracy is "one of the central challenges facing the global economy."
"Pirates and counterfeiters don't just steal ideas, they steal jobs and too often they threaten our health and safety," she said in a statement.
This year's report devoted attention to what it described as the growing problem of counterfeited pharmaceuticals and other products that threaten the health and safety of consumers worldwide.
Stan McCoy, assistant U.S. trade representative for intellectual property, told reporters in a briefing that both China and Russia had made improvements in protecting intellectual property over the past year but that a number of issues remain.
The United States has a WTO case pending against China in which it has accused the country of doing too little to crack down on rampant piracy of American music, movies, computer programs and other products.
Discussions between the United States and Russia over improving copyright protections have been a key sticking point in negotiations over that country's bid to become a member of the WTO, the Geneva-based organization that regulates world trade.
Business groups praised the administration's new report with the Copyright Alliance, a coalition of industry groups, saying stronger efforts were needed to attack global piracy, which it estimated was costing the U.S. economy $58 billion a year and nearly 375,000 lost jobs.
Neil Turkewitz, executive vice president of the Recording Industry Association of America, said the report "has identified some of the most notorious marketplaces for the sale or distribution" of pirated material, including street markets in the Czech Republic, Mexico and Argentina and Internet sites in Russia and China.
Robert Holleyman, president of the Business Software Alliance, said piracy remained the software industry's biggest trade barrier, costing nearly $40 billion a year.
What a blatantly transparent attack! How stupid do you think WaPo readers are? I have a better idea -- why doesn't the US deduct from the millions in aid that it gives to the Palestinians for the AMERICAN CITIZENS who were murdered in cold blood by Palestinian terrorists?
What a blatantly transparent attack! How stupid do you think WaPo readers are? I have a better idea -- why doesn't the US deduct from the millions in aid that it gives to the Palestinians for the AMERICAN CITIZENS who were murdered in cold bold by Palestinian terrorists?
Unless the Israeli government or military is somehow profiting from the media piracy that takes place there, I see no reason to conflate the two revenue streams as the author does.
My gut feeling is that the author is responding to the U.S. cold shoulder toward the Palestinian Authority. Unlike the case of Israel, the US did justify the abrogation of commitments to the PA by pointing to the degree of lawlessness that exists there.
I too would like to see the commitments to Israel and to the PA placed on more equal footing, but that means restoring and respecting them, not punching more holes in them.
The author's suggestion - much like the worst elements of US and Israeli policies, reflects the popularity of the collective punishment mentality. That is, punishing *a people* for the crimes of *people*.
While there is no shortage of culprits, most of us are taught to believe that collective punishment is morally wrong, and conceptually incompatible with democracy.
It is time to move Israel- way past time. This pariah nation has committed gross human rights abuses and war crimes with impunity. Israel wants all of what was Palestine; that is why they are taking more and more of the little 22% that is left for the indigenous people.
Israel should be moved to the US; it is the billions of US taxpayers dollars that keep it afloat; it would be cheaper to just move it to Texas. Texas is a state where rabid religious zealots abound- the Israelis should fit right in.
It looks like it's a lot more than copying software!
"U.S. lawmakers joined Jewish groups in asking the Bush administration to remove Israel from an intellectual property watch list.
Israel is slated to be included in the U.S. Trade Representative's 2008 priority watch list, at the behest of pharmaceutical companies seeking to restrict Israel's manufacture of generic drugs.
A letter last month from five Jewish groups -- United Jewish Communities, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, B'nai B'rith International, the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League said placing Israel on the watch list would ignore the reforms Israel has introduced recently, including five-year data exclusivity on innovative drugs.
"Our view is that Israel has done a commendable job of balancing appropriate protections on pharmaceutical innovations with timely access to needed medicines for Israeli citizens," said the letter from the Jewish groups. Similar letters were signed by 25 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and three U.S. senators."
South Korea is also on that list, and we have several military bases here, let alone an FTA on the table. Where's the outrage directed at Koreans?
Not everything is about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
For people responding with such spite: have you been to Israel? Lived there? Met Israelis? Met Arab Israelis? Worked with them? They really aren't as conspiratorial as you'd like to think.
I have maintained and for a long time that Israel to the US is as Delilah to Samson; working deliberately and incessantly to bring the giant down. All evidence sadly point in that direction. I hope enough people will realize that glaring fact before it is too late.
Israel has a long-standing policy of ignoring the rights of all others. If they made an exception for the United States and respected our rights then others might expect Israel to also respect their rights. It's just easier and cleaner for them to ignore the rights of everyone except themselves.
Of course, even the remote possibility that someone might ignore the rights of Israel (in every form) will lead to them screaming bloody murder or to launch a preemptive military attack if they deem it in their interest.
Will the United States do anything about the situation mentioned above? Of course they won't. Our Congress is controlled by Jewish interest groups and if any member of that body even suggested that Israel address a tiny injustice they would immediately and loudly be accused of anti-Semitism.
It has turned into a sad and convoluted situation but I see nothing changing in the future; the United States guarantees the right of the Israeli’s to do as they wish and that is just what they do best.
But while we're at it, let's put a price on Palestinians dancing in the streets with joy on 9/11. Whattaya say?
May 2, 2008 8:20 PM | Report Offensive Comments"
What's wrong with that? Those deranged Jews with the cute little spit curls dance around like Fairies every time 100 of the cowards kill a Palestinian Farmer and steal his olives.
Whattaya say?
It is reasonable for the theft of intellectual property to be compensated for. What is your source for your contention that Israel is among the seven top thieves? Please give one or more examples of such thefts.
Dave: Of course Israel has a great hi-tech industry. Our massive subsidies to Israel helps them in any industrial endeavor they chose. Take away the US taxpayers' subsidies, and we'll see how far their tech industry goes.
Elizabeth Renant: Spare us your pious rants about the evils of Palestinians. Why should the Palestinians speak out about Darfur when Israel is suffocating them? The Palestinians have enough to worry about courtesy of Israel. Israel is not only committed to the destruction of Palestine, it has already accomplished it! Palestinians are justified in calling for Israel's destruction the same way anyone evicted from their house can call for the destruction of the thieves. Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese since 1947 and has the gall to complain about Palestinians taking revenge. It's like the SS complaining that they were shot at in the Warsaw Ghetto.
As for Arafat, let's see, how many Israeli cabinet members are being prosecuted for rape? Wait, rape is his specialty, rape of the Palestinians. Oh, now I see, it's OK.
Maybe you should reenact Dier Yassin. Hey, Mommy, I just killed 140 Palestinians and took their land! A real mitzvah!
Extensive copyright violations in Israel have been documented and revealed by the US govt. It claims Israel is one of the worst violators of US intellectual property, along with China and Russia. It is interesting that WaPo should choose a ***Palestinian*** to start the discussion on that subject. Couldn't find an American Hollywood bigwig to raise the issue? Perhaps too busy sueing American teenagers over MP3s...
What exactly is the proposal, the US government would cut off aid to the Israeli government because private Israeli citizens are making illegal copies of intellectual property belonging to American individuals and companies? Seems like there are a few gaps in the logic of that plan. Such as, should US foreign policy be driven by copyright owners? And what will be accomplished by cutting off aid to the Israeli government if the Israeli government is not engaged in copyright violations?
Israel-bashing I can tolerate. I'm a Zionist, but I'll admit that Israel's hands are often impure. But on "piracy?" Puh-leeze! "Piracy" is an invention of the same informatics industry that got Congress to rewrite the First Amendment in a search for extra profit.
I think that Professor Kuttab has just made Israel a lot more popular.
Yeah, the neocons are all Jewish: Dick Cheney, Doug Feith, George Bush, Don Rumsfeld, and oh for sure, Condi Rice and Colin Powell and Karl Rove!
Say, I think some wells went dry in Arkansas last week - must be some Jews living there.
You people are so pathetic. Why don't you focus on something useful, like seeing that Hamas doesn't sell another generation of young Palestinian children down the river with their cartoons for future terrorist recruitment?
The only irony here is Mr. Kuttab's inability to look at any subject except through the prism of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Hey Mr. Kuttab, you missed something: Over at the Secularist corner they are discussing the child abuse case at the crazed cult compound in Texas. Why don't you go there and write a column about how that, too, is somehow Israel's fault. I'm sure if you put your mind to it, you could find a connection.
Maybe if Mr. Kuttab provided any evidence for his accusation or provide any evidence that the Israeli government is assisting in piracy or at least looking the other way.
Israel is one of the top 7 countries in the world with regard to new patents per capita so it has a very good incentive to enforce intelectual property rights.
Israel is also one of the largest software developers in the world exporting 3.6 billion dollars worth of software a year so again it has a large incetive to ensure the enforcement of copyrights.
90% of the neocons are jewish americans, they support the hegemony of israel by any means possible, even if that means pitting the US against all arab countries to bleed each other to death. If americans are not careful this is going to happen, and the only winner is going to be
CHINA the next superpower.
All for the sake of APARTHEID ISRAEL.
90% of the neocons are jewish americans, they support the hegemony of israel by any means possible, even if that means pitting the US against all arab countries to bleed each other to death. If americans are not careful this is going to happen, and the only winner is going to be
CHINA the next superpower.
All for the sake of APARTHEID ISRAEL.
90% of the neocons are jewish americans, they support the hegemony of israel by any means possible, even if that means pitting the US against all arab countries to bleed each other to death. If americans are not careful this is going to happen, and the only winner is going to be
CHINA the next superpower.
All for the sake of APARTHEID ISRAEL.
All you have to do in this country is hint at any possible Israeli malfeasance and the crazed mob comes after you in seconds. No one is even addressing the question at hand. They're too incensed at the possible besmirching of infallible Israel's honor.
Spare me your pious rants about the inequities of the US-Israeli relationship. For how many years did Yasser Arafat siphon off millions in foreign aid while he ensconced his own family in a big house on Paris's Right Bank - not far from where the Grimaldis had their own little pied-a-terre? Palestinian outrage is unbelievably selective - in the last four years, the Janjaweed in Darfur have slaughtered nearly half a million black Muslims and put more than a million people on the run. I have yet to hear the Arab world do more than chastize the rest of the world for coming down too hard on their genocidal Arab brethren in Khartoum. Hamas is committed to Israel's complete destruction and would do anything to stop a peace process that actually looked like succeeding.
The hypocrisy of the Paletinian arguments never fail to amaze. The US is not obligated to treat all sides equally, especially when one side elects a band of terrorist thugs as their representatives whose long term ambitions are clearly outlined in their charter, easily available on the Internet.
Native Hawaiians that advocates sovereignty locked the gates of a historic palace Wednesday in downtown Honolulu.
Protest leader Mahealani Kahau said the group doesn't recognize Hawaii as a U.S. state. Supporters planned to keep the protest peaceful and if evicted would return later, she said.
The group is one of several Hawaiian sovereignty organizations in the islands seeking to regain independence, which became the 50th U.S. state in 1959.
And while we're at it, let's look at the rest of the blather written above. Let's apply the sentiments to some other countries and see if the writer supports these ideas only in very limited circumstances.
"... including the fact that the U.S. contributes to Israel at least $3 billion in no-questions-asked, direct military and civilian aid and much more in tax-deductible contributions. Wouldn't it be fair if the U.S. would deduct some of its losses in intellectual property from some of this undeserved generosity of the American taxpayers?"
Let's see, Egypt gets the same or more, under the same "peace treaty" where Israel gave up land for a piece of paper. Shall we deduct from that aid the value of the rampant Copyright violations there and in all the Arab/Muslim countries? Oh, and all those countries and the PA, that teach their children to hate Jews, Americans, Westerners, Christians, etc, who are teaching their children to grow up to be terrorist bombers, should we cut off their aid, too?
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Ah yes, the Hitler analogy - typical neocon propaganda.
Who aren't "Nazis" according to your paranoid outlook: the Iraqis, the Persians, the Syrians, the Egyptians?
Right...
May 4, 2008 2:32 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 4, 2008 14:32
Here we go again: "let us not be controlled by the Jews, Saddam is a secular leader ,we can do bisinesss with him (the 80:eighties favorite).
The Israelis are saying Saddam is a homicidal psychopath but that is just a smear". Well, we cosied up and he still went after Kuwait.
The same arguments in Stalin´s Kreml:"Hitler is a rational leader.He just happens to (rightly)hate the Jews.Let us get rid of the jew Litvinov and
make a deal and divide Poland and the Baltics with Adolf".And Adolf still attacked a Russsia with its pants down. Show me one leader or political system that have been strongly antisemitic but
a blessing for humanitiy in its total.(I admit thoughthere have been leaders f.e. Napoleon symphatetic to jews but perhaps less of a blessing for others)
May 4, 2008 4:45 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 4, 2008 04:45
America has a Special Relationship with Israel! They are a welfare state of the United States and are supposed to be great allies. Where did they ever show that they were allies. They never lifted a finger to aid us in any of our wars and we really didn't want them to because of their horrible reputation in the world. With friends like that, who needs enemies. We give them billions of dollars every year, with no questions asked and they show their appreciation by spying on us and stealing our military secrets. Now, they are worried about Iran and will try to have the US fight another war for them. Why does the US kiss their asses and what do we get for it? We fear Israel for some unknown reasons and will continue to bribe them every year even if we have to borrow the money from China. Hillary will give them anything they want or need because of our great "special relationship"? We will get nothing but trouble from Israel as long as they exist.
May 4, 2008 12:13 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 4, 2008 00:13
Would it not be more apt for a Palestinian/Jordanian to focus on the dollars
Us taxpayers have contributed to Mr Arafats Pl0
of which money no trace can be found,than to constantly wine about how the spoiled Israelis
incessantly rob their Us-Christian benefactors,
the ungrateful jew being a favorite subject among
the Arab chattering classes.Obviously the Jews
will never attain the level of gratitude shown
by the Muslim world when, after years of Us support for the fight against Soviet Union (not to mention the Serbs)our Saudi allies murdered
3000 Americans.By the way ,one should mention that as Hollywood as well as the rest of Us creative production, according to current Arab thinking,is controlled by the jews, the bemoaned
piracy mus tbe just a case of Jews robbing Jews.
May 3, 2008 11:30 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 23:30
How many other of America's "allies" routinely spy within our government and military in order to influence our steal our secrets and influence foreign policy...
Also, watch out for the upcoming AIPAC trail - if the media gives it any play, that is.
Funny which stories the "free press" decides to highlight and which it doesn't.
I wonder who owns the NYTs, Washington Post, and LA Times?
(rhetorical question: they are all jewish owned)
May 3, 2008 10:30 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 22:30
Mr. Kuttab:
Surely, the National Enquirer pays better than WaPo.
Thought about applying for work there?
D U M B.
May 3, 2008 9:48 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 21:48
What a cheap defence of a crime. They do it too.Quit using the guilt trip,when caught. What a stink.
May 3, 2008 9:40 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 21:40
This is so profoundly stupid, I don't even no where to begin. Doesn't WaPo have hiring criteria?
Been to racist Egypt lately? The country to which we give five billion dollars annually, which uses that money to buy weapons to give to Palestinian Muslims who then blow up Israelis?
Meanwhile, Egyptians are starving. Let's not even talk about Israel's food shortages, bread lines.
And Egypt, our homie, doesn't have to ask our "permission" to do anything.
HELLO? Never seen pirated DVD's in Egypt, Syria, Jordan (amazing). My all-time favorite is Pakistan, where pirated DVDs are the only kind available. I know. Been there. Saw that.
GO BACK TO YOUR DAY JOB.
May 3, 2008 8:33 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 20:33
I'm sure no Israeli Arabs or Palestinians are involved in selling pirated DVDs in street bazaars -- only Jews.
Your little paragraph here is transparent -- you could care less for intellectual property.
But look at what wonderful flypaper you've cast for those who hate Jews and those who hate Arabs, Mr. Kuttab.
The folks who agree with you will kick Arab intellectuals to the curb just as soon as Jewish members of Congress or whatever.
Hate breeds hate.
Engage in some Rituals of Truce -- and let's move forward.
May 3, 2008 8:06 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 20:06
If anyone on this has ever had their house taken from them and forced to live generations in an internment camp, because of some story that was written thousands of years ago please raise your hand. If not then quit crying for Israel. Meanwhile your everyday existence is comprised of checkpoints causing delays of hours just to go to work or school. In addition an occupying force rations off all the means for you to live and tries to humiliate and dehumanize your people on a daily basis. This happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany. They said never again would it happen to them. It has not, but they have used that reason to commit the atrocities above to the Palestinian people. Yes Hitler did try to eradicate the Jews. No one cares anymore. That does not give Israel the right to do what they do. The strings on that fiddle are all but worn out. The world has to take a good look at who the true enemies are. The sooner the US does not deal with Israel the better. One final note, Israel tops the list of countries that spy on the US, even higher than China. This will never be published but it is widely accepted in the intelligence community.
May 3, 2008 7:35 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 19:35
We give aid to Egypt as part of a peace deal with Israel...i.e. for Israel's benefit.
Also, how many Egyptian spies have been found stealing American nuclear secrets????
We should stop payments to all ruthless and tribal countries in the region - Israel included...
May 3, 2008 7:12 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 19:12
Oh, please...
Once again, anyone can take a single aspect of bilateral relations between two countries and put it under a microscope. Let's broaden the discussion a bit - how many Israeli's were hijackers on 9/11? By your logic, we should be deducting our financial losses incurred from 9/11 against money due to Saudia Arabia for oil.
Other countries in the Middle East besides Israel harm us much worse financially than the Israelis do. Yes, okay, mention the subsidies to Israel if you want. What about the equally staggering aid we give to Saudi Arabia and Egypt??? What have they done for us lately? I'm waiting.
May 3, 2008 3:20 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 15:20
Forget about the counterfeiting, what about the Israeli SPIES!!!!
Just last week another was found and there is an upcoming trial for two AIPAC employees spying for Israeli.
I guess our billions and military protection are not enough....
Kick them to the curb!
May 3, 2008 2:48 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 14:48
It's amazing to me that rather than focus on what Palestinian society can do in oder to gain its independence, your spend your time lambasting Israel. A little introspection would be appreciated.
May 3, 2008 2:14 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 14:14
Docchuck, Jon Silver, Patrick, et al:
Your disgusting attacks on Jews reveal the blackness and idiocy of your intellects. "the raping of America?" The nonsense that you foolish, anti-semitic monkeys will resort to is just astounding. Hateful and biased cowards like yourselves only reveal yourselves in the anonymity of chat rooms. I'd love to see you voice your trash in a context where your opinions and assertions can be disputed.
May 3, 2008 1:20 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 13:20
Careful professor, your bias is showing
May 3, 2008 12:33 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 12:33
Apparently the US does have a number of vices with Israel.
See this from the Wikipedia entry on Software Piracy.
"The copyright infringement of software (also known as software piracy) refers to several practices which involve the unauthorized copying of computer software. Copyright infringement of this kind is extremely common in the United States, Mexico, China, Indonesia, Russia, Brazil, Zimbabwe and several other parts of the world."
Or did the good Professor mean "vises."
May 3, 2008 11:23 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 11:23
Teva pharmaceutical is guilty, imho, of intellectual property theft with their production of a generic version of an america medicine that is still under patent protection here in the usa....they are counting on the slowness of the courts to force an agreement with the american manufacturer....imho, they are THIEVES
May 3, 2008 11:02 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 11:02
Ironic? What is ironic is that the Current Discussion is "Media Piracy" and, as usual, a Palestinian has stolen the forum and turned it into a diatribe against Israel. Remember 1972? The current discussion was "Olympic Spirit" when a Palestinian stole the forum in Munich and turned it into an attack against Israel. Remember 1968? The discussion was "Presidential Politics" and a Palestinian in Los Angeles assassinated the Democratic front-runner and blamed it on Israel. Irony? The real irony here is a Palestinian "journalist" accusing someone else of "media piracy". I guess you can take the Arab out of the Barbary Coast, but you can't take the Barbary Coast out of the Arab.
May 3, 2008 10:56 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 10:56
Could NOT agree with you more, Daoud Kuttab.
But as we all know, the jews have weasled themselves into every facet of government and banking in America, so the status quo will likely never change.
It will take a strong new leader someday down the road to end the mindless, endless support of Israel.
We REAL Americans can only hope that it is SOONER than LATER.
May 3, 2008 10:52 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 10:52
more and more have i separated myself and family from jews because of their chronic behavior against the palestinians and their raping of america.
one would have thought jews had learned a lesson after their experience in europe by russians and europeans. they just don't get the message.
May 3, 2008 10:35 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 10:35
Israel has been sodomizing the U.S. freely since the U.S. government sided with it against the crew of the U.S.S. Liberty. That was pretty much a signal it could get away with pretty much anything and get paid for doing it.
Americans are just dumb patsies. It must be all the fast food and dimwitted t.v. What a sad end for a once-great country.
May 3, 2008 5:19 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 05:19
What is astonishing is that such a small country as Israel has such a disproportionately high US copyright violation footprint. That's how Israel made it on the Copyright Violation Watch List. If this were perpetrated by another country, would we not expect US politicians (as they do for China and Russia) to apply pressure on Israel to crack down on pirates instead of having Israel removed from the Watch List?
It is in Israel's interest to help us fight terrorists who attack both the US and Israel. But, as Benjamin Netanyahu publicly said, 9/11 was great for Israel because it brought the US closer to Israel. Overall, is it not fair to say that the US has a terrorist problem largely because of the antagonism that our policies, including support for Israel, generate in the Middle East? Does anyone really believe that "they hate us because of our freedoms"?
And no, we are not protecting Darfur. The atrocities continue.
May 3, 2008 4:46 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 04:46
It's seems the writer is a little bit frustrated on his place in the conflict between Israel and the palatines. So he is trying to make weak arguments to change the situation in the region.
Israel is maybe a leader in online piracy, but the whole nation is only about 7 million people, which a big share of them includes Arabs that are more Palestine's then Israelis. The number of computers is high, but is not 100%, moreover not everyone steals. It seems the writer in interested in complaining on a group of few million people, that aid United States interests in a way no other company world is. Israel lies in the heart of global terrorism, and no other nation does so much for so long to fight global terror.
President Bush protects Sudan with her Darfur genocide, for valuable information on terror activity, is Israel really the main priority at these times?
May 3, 2008 4:15 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 04:15
What complete nonsense! Arab living in Israel and the territories are nice people.
But the Palestinians as a national entity are completely useless and a total failure. So much so, the Arab petro$$s find there way into places far away from them. Mooch off them and forget about Aipac and the Jewish lobby. you are moaning and groaning about nothing.
What you Arabs need is a little less mosque nonsense and a little more University.
May 3, 2008 3:28 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 03:28
Dave: Of course Israel has a great hi-tech industry. Our massive subsidies to Israel helps them in any industrial endeavor they chose. Take away the US taxpayers' subsidies, and we'll see how far their tech industry goes.
Elizabeth Renant: Spare us your pious rants about the evils of Palestinians. Why should the Palestinians speak out about Darfur when Israel is suffocating them? The Palestinians have enough to worry about courtesy of Israel. Israel is not only committed to the destruction of Palestine, it has already accomplished it! Palestinians are justified in calling for Israel's destruction the same way anyone evicted from their house can call for the destruction of the thieves. Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese since 1947 and has the gall to complain about Palestinians taking revenge. It's like the SS complaining that they were shot at in the Warsaw Ghetto.
As for Arafat, let's see, how many Israeli cabinet members are being prosecuted for rape? Wait, rape is his specialty, rape of the Palestinians. Oh, now I see, it's OK.
Maybe you should reenact Dier Yassin. Hey, Mommy, I just killed 140 Palestinians and took their land! A real mitzvah!
The derriere pains.
May 3, 2008 3:16 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 03:16
Yes it is fair-but, first,U need to get rid of the monolithic jewish lobby in DC such as AIPAC and the forty three jewish members of US congress.
No justice will ever be attained for America except when it frees its soul from the suffocating bondage of the jewish lobby which has and contiunes to abuse the US and its power to serve the apartheid state.
Not only does the apartheid jewish theocracy steal from the US but it spies on it using American jews and thus compromising the loyalty of American jewery beyond repair:observe Johnathan Pollard and lately Ben Khadish!!!
May 3, 2008 3:12 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 03:12
Why would American lawmakers try to get Israel off the Priority Watch List, an effort replicated for no other country on that list? What does that mean?
May 3, 2008 2:14 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 02:14
For those who seem to think this copyright violation issue is concocted by disgruntled antisemites:
US targets China, Russia, 7 other nations on copyrights
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER – Apr 25, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration is accusing China, Russia and seven other nations of failing to protect American producers of movies, computer software and other copyrighted material from widespread piracy.
The administration on Friday placed the nine countries on a "priority watch list" that will subject them to extra scrutiny and could eventually lead to economic sanctions — if the administration decides to pursue complaints before the World Trade Organization.
In addition to China and Russia, the other seven countries targeted were Argentina, Chile, India, Israel, Pakistan, Thailand and Venezuela.
The administration named another 31 countries to a lower-level watch list, indicating it has concerns about copyright violations in those nations but they don't warrant the highest level of scrutiny.
Because of improvements in their efforts to protect U.S. intellectual property rights, four countries — Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and Ukraine — were taken off the "priority" list where they were last year and placed on the lower-level watch list.
While business groups praised the report, Oxfam, the international aid organization, criticized the document for targeting Thailand and India for their policies of making low-cost generic drugs available to poor people to battle HIV-AIDS and other diseases.
Rohit Malpani, an Oxfam policy adviser, said that 80 percent of the generic drugs used in developing nations to combat AIDS were manufactured in India while Thailand is supplying generic drugs to poor people in that country.
"Thailand is reducing the costs of key medicines to treat AIDS, cancer and heart disease and India has become the pharmacy for the developing world. What the administration is doing is completely inappropriate," he said, arguing that both countries have the right to do what they are doing under global trade rules.
Under rules supported by the WTO, countries can issue so-called compulsory licenses to disregard patent rights, but only after negotiating with the patent owners and paying them adequate compensation. If they declare a public health emergency, governments can skip the negotiating.
In releasing the annual report, which is required by Congress, U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said copyright piracy is "one of the central challenges facing the global economy."
"Pirates and counterfeiters don't just steal ideas, they steal jobs and too often they threaten our health and safety," she said in a statement.
This year's report devoted attention to what it described as the growing problem of counterfeited pharmaceuticals and other products that threaten the health and safety of consumers worldwide.
Stan McCoy, assistant U.S. trade representative for intellectual property, told reporters in a briefing that both China and Russia had made improvements in protecting intellectual property over the past year but that a number of issues remain.
The United States has a WTO case pending against China in which it has accused the country of doing too little to crack down on rampant piracy of American music, movies, computer programs and other products.
Discussions between the United States and Russia over improving copyright protections have been a key sticking point in negotiations over that country's bid to become a member of the WTO, the Geneva-based organization that regulates world trade.
Business groups praised the administration's new report with the Copyright Alliance, a coalition of industry groups, saying stronger efforts were needed to attack global piracy, which it estimated was costing the U.S. economy $58 billion a year and nearly 375,000 lost jobs.
Neil Turkewitz, executive vice president of the Recording Industry Association of America, said the report "has identified some of the most notorious marketplaces for the sale or distribution" of pirated material, including street markets in the Czech Republic, Mexico and Argentina and Internet sites in Russia and China.
Robert Holleyman, president of the Business Software Alliance, said piracy remained the software industry's biggest trade barrier, costing nearly $40 billion a year.
May 3, 2008 2:08 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 02:08
What a blatantly transparent attack! How stupid do you think WaPo readers are? I have a better idea -- why doesn't the US deduct from the millions in aid that it gives to the Palestinians for the AMERICAN CITIZENS who were murdered in cold blood by Palestinian terrorists?
May 3, 2008 12:57 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 00:57
What a blatantly transparent attack! How stupid do you think WaPo readers are? I have a better idea -- why doesn't the US deduct from the millions in aid that it gives to the Palestinians for the AMERICAN CITIZENS who were murdered in cold bold by Palestinian terrorists?
May 3, 2008 12:57 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 00:57
Unless the Israeli government or military is somehow profiting from the media piracy that takes place there, I see no reason to conflate the two revenue streams as the author does.
My gut feeling is that the author is responding to the U.S. cold shoulder toward the Palestinian Authority. Unlike the case of Israel, the US did justify the abrogation of commitments to the PA by pointing to the degree of lawlessness that exists there.
I too would like to see the commitments to Israel and to the PA placed on more equal footing, but that means restoring and respecting them, not punching more holes in them.
The author's suggestion - much like the worst elements of US and Israeli policies, reflects the popularity of the collective punishment mentality. That is, punishing *a people* for the crimes of *people*.
While there is no shortage of culprits, most of us are taught to believe that collective punishment is morally wrong, and conceptually incompatible with democracy.
May 3, 2008 12:40 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 00:40
You are not only a dirtbag, but a transparent dirtbag.
Are you saying Palestinians don't pirate software?
Software piracy is not a problem of nationalities, nor religions -- it's a worldwide epidemic that crosses all boundaries.
If we should deduct any monies, it should be those given to Arab and Muslim governments -- payments that are returned to us in forms of terrorism.
May 3, 2008 12:29 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 00:29
It is time to move Israel- way past time. This pariah nation has committed gross human rights abuses and war crimes with impunity. Israel wants all of what was Palestine; that is why they are taking more and more of the little 22% that is left for the indigenous people.
Israel should be moved to the US; it is the billions of US taxpayers dollars that keep it afloat; it would be cheaper to just move it to Texas. Texas is a state where rabid religious zealots abound- the Israelis should fit right in.
May 3, 2008 12:25 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 3, 2008 00:25
It looks like it's a lot more than copying software!
"U.S. lawmakers joined Jewish groups in asking the Bush administration to remove Israel from an intellectual property watch list.
Israel is slated to be included in the U.S. Trade Representative's 2008 priority watch list, at the behest of pharmaceutical companies seeking to restrict Israel's manufacture of generic drugs.
A letter last month from five Jewish groups -- United Jewish Communities, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, B'nai B'rith International, the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League said placing Israel on the watch list would ignore the reforms Israel has introduced recently, including five-year data exclusivity on innovative drugs.
"Our view is that Israel has done a commendable job of balancing appropriate protections on pharmaceutical innovations with timely access to needed medicines for Israeli citizens," said the letter from the Jewish groups. Similar letters were signed by 25 members of the U.S. House of Representatives and three U.S. senators."
(from JTA)
May 2, 2008 11:18 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 23:18
South Korea is also on that list, and we have several military bases here, let alone an FTA on the table. Where's the outrage directed at Koreans?
Not everything is about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
For people responding with such spite: have you been to Israel? Lived there? Met Israelis? Met Arab Israelis? Worked with them? They really aren't as conspiratorial as you'd like to think.
May 2, 2008 11:12 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 23:12
I have maintained and for a long time that Israel to the US is as Delilah to Samson; working deliberately and incessantly to bring the giant down. All evidence sadly point in that direction. I hope enough people will realize that glaring fact before it is too late.
May 2, 2008 10:49 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 22:49
Well, apparently they have all the state secrets, what does one expect.
May 2, 2008 10:47 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 22:47
Israel has a long-standing policy of ignoring the rights of all others. If they made an exception for the United States and respected our rights then others might expect Israel to also respect their rights. It's just easier and cleaner for them to ignore the rights of everyone except themselves.
Of course, even the remote possibility that someone might ignore the rights of Israel (in every form) will lead to them screaming bloody murder or to launch a preemptive military attack if they deem it in their interest.
Will the United States do anything about the situation mentioned above? Of course they won't. Our Congress is controlled by Jewish interest groups and if any member of that body even suggested that Israel address a tiny injustice they would immediately and loudly be accused of anti-Semitism.
It has turned into a sad and convoluted situation but I see nothing changing in the future; the United States guarantees the right of the Israeli’s to do as they wish and that is just what they do best.
May 2, 2008 10:34 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 22:34
4 stars for a scholar and a journalist that dares to speak the truth.
4 stars
May 2, 2008 9:30 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 21:30
"proxl:
But while we're at it, let's put a price on Palestinians dancing in the streets with joy on 9/11. Whattaya say?
May 2, 2008 8:20 PM | Report Offensive Comments"
What's wrong with that? Those deranged Jews with the cute little spit curls dance around like Fairies every time 100 of the cowards kill a Palestinian Farmer and steal his olives.
Whattaya say?
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com
May 2, 2008 9:01 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 21:01
Hey, tell you what -- let's do discount money from Israel's aid for private citizens' piracy against US businesses.
But while we're at it, let's put a price on Palestinians dancing in the streets with joy on 9/11. Whattaya say?
May 2, 2008 8:20 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 20:20
Dear Daoud Kuttab,
It is reasonable for the theft of intellectual property to be compensated for. What is your source for your contention that Israel is among the seven top thieves? Please give one or more examples of such thefts.
May 2, 2008 8:19 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 20:19
Don't forget, they steal our military secrets too.
May 2, 2008 8:19 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 20:19
If you want to talk about Americans getting raped, take a look at the price of gas. Gee, it must be the Jews who control oil.
May 2, 2008 7:13 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 19:13
Dave: Of course Israel has a great hi-tech industry. Our massive subsidies to Israel helps them in any industrial endeavor they chose. Take away the US taxpayers' subsidies, and we'll see how far their tech industry goes.
Elizabeth Renant: Spare us your pious rants about the evils of Palestinians. Why should the Palestinians speak out about Darfur when Israel is suffocating them? The Palestinians have enough to worry about courtesy of Israel. Israel is not only committed to the destruction of Palestine, it has already accomplished it! Palestinians are justified in calling for Israel's destruction the same way anyone evicted from their house can call for the destruction of the thieves. Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese since 1947 and has the gall to complain about Palestinians taking revenge. It's like the SS complaining that they were shot at in the Warsaw Ghetto.
As for Arafat, let's see, how many Israeli cabinet members are being prosecuted for rape? Wait, rape is his specialty, rape of the Palestinians. Oh, now I see, it's OK.
Maybe you should reenact Dier Yassin. Hey, Mommy, I just killed 140 Palestinians and took their land! A real mitzvah!
The derriere pains.
May 2, 2008 6:58 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 18:58
Israel is America's sacred cow and any criticism of it is blasphemy, punishable by public stoning.
May 2, 2008 6:46 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 18:46
Extensive copyright violations in Israel have been documented and revealed by the US govt. It claims Israel is one of the worst violators of US intellectual property, along with China and Russia. It is interesting that WaPo should choose a ***Palestinian*** to start the discussion on that subject. Couldn't find an American Hollywood bigwig to raise the issue? Perhaps too busy sueing American teenagers over MP3s...
May 2, 2008 5:59 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 17:59
What exactly is the proposal, the US government would cut off aid to the Israeli government because private Israeli citizens are making illegal copies of intellectual property belonging to American individuals and companies? Seems like there are a few gaps in the logic of that plan. Such as, should US foreign policy be driven by copyright owners? And what will be accomplished by cutting off aid to the Israeli government if the Israeli government is not engaged in copyright violations?
May 2, 2008 5:45 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 17:45
Israel-bashing I can tolerate. I'm a Zionist, but I'll admit that Israel's hands are often impure. But on "piracy?" Puh-leeze! "Piracy" is an invention of the same informatics industry that got Congress to rewrite the First Amendment in a search for extra profit.
I think that Professor Kuttab has just made Israel a lot more popular.
May 2, 2008 5:35 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 17:35
Yeah, the neocons are all Jewish: Dick Cheney, Doug Feith, George Bush, Don Rumsfeld, and oh for sure, Condi Rice and Colin Powell and Karl Rove!
Say, I think some wells went dry in Arkansas last week - must be some Jews living there.
You people are so pathetic. Why don't you focus on something useful, like seeing that Hamas doesn't sell another generation of young Palestinian children down the river with their cartoons for future terrorist recruitment?
May 2, 2008 3:36 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 15:36
The only irony here is Mr. Kuttab's inability to look at any subject except through the prism of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Hey Mr. Kuttab, you missed something: Over at the Secularist corner they are discussing the child abuse case at the crazed cult compound in Texas. Why don't you go there and write a column about how that, too, is somehow Israel's fault. I'm sure if you put your mind to it, you could find a connection.
May 2, 2008 2:27 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 14:27
Maybe if Mr. Kuttab provided any evidence for his accusation or provide any evidence that the Israeli government is assisting in piracy or at least looking the other way.
Israel is one of the top 7 countries in the world with regard to new patents per capita so it has a very good incentive to enforce intelectual property rights.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=35880
Israel is also one of the largest software developers in the world exporting 3.6 billion dollars worth of software a year so again it has a large incetive to ensure the enforcement of copyrights.
http://www.export.gov.il/Eng/_Articles/Article.asp?CategoryID=486&ArticleID=5635
Matbe Mr. Kuttab is upset because his people have never invented anything other than new and inproved ways to blow themselves up among civilians.
May 2, 2008 12:45 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 12:45
90% of the neocons are jewish americans, they support the hegemony of israel by any means possible, even if that means pitting the US against all arab countries to bleed each other to death. If americans are not careful this is going to happen, and the only winner is going to be
CHINA the next superpower.
All for the sake of APARTHEID ISRAEL.
May 2, 2008 11:24 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 11:24
90% of the neocons are jewish americans, they support the hegemony of israel by any means possible, even if that means pitting the US against all arab countries to bleed each other to death. If americans are not careful this is going to happen, and the only winner is going to be
CHINA the next superpower.
All for the sake of APARTHEID ISRAEL.
May 2, 2008 11:21 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 11:21
90% of the neocons are jewish americans, they support the hegemony of israel by any means possible, even if that means pitting the US against all arab countries to bleed each other to death. If americans are not careful this is going to happen, and the only winner is going to be
CHINA the next superpower.
All for the sake of APARTHEID ISRAEL.
May 2, 2008 11:19 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 11:19
Yep,
All you have to do in this country is hint at any possible Israeli malfeasance and the crazed mob comes after you in seconds. No one is even addressing the question at hand. They're too incensed at the possible besmirching of infallible Israel's honor.
May 2, 2008 11:18 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 11:18
Spare me your pious rants about the inequities of the US-Israeli relationship. For how many years did Yasser Arafat siphon off millions in foreign aid while he ensconced his own family in a big house on Paris's Right Bank - not far from where the Grimaldis had their own little pied-a-terre? Palestinian outrage is unbelievably selective - in the last four years, the Janjaweed in Darfur have slaughtered nearly half a million black Muslims and put more than a million people on the run. I have yet to hear the Arab world do more than chastize the rest of the world for coming down too hard on their genocidal Arab brethren in Khartoum. Hamas is committed to Israel's complete destruction and would do anything to stop a peace process that actually looked like succeeding.
The hypocrisy of the Paletinian arguments never fail to amaze. The US is not obligated to treat all sides equally, especially when one side elects a band of terrorist thugs as their representatives whose long term ambitions are clearly outlined in their charter, easily available on the Internet.
The heart bleeds.
May 2, 2008 10:34 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 2, 2008 10:34
vow,wonderfull logic mr.But what about the Israeli service to America in middle east.
May 1, 2008 9:49 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 1, 2008 09:49
I vote that we multiply US aid to Israel by seven, and give them a few aircraft-carrier fleets.
May 1, 2008 8:25 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on May 1, 2008 08:25
Native Hawaiians that advocates sovereignty locked the gates of a historic palace Wednesday in downtown Honolulu.
Protest leader Mahealani Kahau said the group doesn't recognize Hawaii as a U.S. state. Supporters planned to keep the protest peaceful and if evicted would return later, she said.
The group is one of several Hawaiian sovereignty organizations in the islands seeking to regain independence, which became the 50th U.S. state in 1959.
April 30, 2008 11:18 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on April 30, 2008 23:18
And while we're at it, let's look at the rest of the blather written above. Let's apply the sentiments to some other countries and see if the writer supports these ideas only in very limited circumstances.
"... including the fact that the U.S. contributes to Israel at least $3 billion in no-questions-asked, direct military and civilian aid and much more in tax-deductible contributions. Wouldn't it be fair if the U.S. would deduct some of its losses in intellectual property from some of this undeserved generosity of the American taxpayers?"
Let's see, Egypt gets the same or more, under the same "peace treaty" where Israel gave up land for a piece of paper. Shall we deduct from that aid the value of the rampant Copyright violations there and in all the Arab/Muslim countries? Oh, and all those countries and the PA, that teach their children to hate Jews, Americans, Westerners, Christians, etc, who are teaching their children to grow up to be terrorist bombers, should we cut off their aid, too?
April 30, 2008 3:16 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on April 30, 2008 15:16
Bull!
Nothing to say about any other country, just #7, the Jews, err Israelis.
No positive suggestions, no ideas on curbing abuses by all countries, just more pot shots at those despicable Jews, errr Israelis.
And if the writer was born in 1955 in Jerusalem, most likely in the Eastern half, that would make him Jordanian and not Palestinian.
April 30, 2008 3:00 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on April 30, 2008 15:00
Touché!
April 30, 2008 1:20 PM | Report Offensive Comments
Posted on April 30, 2008 13:20