Amos Schocken and I and Friends Tweeting

Over at my twitter feed, we had a doozy today.

The beginning is almost lost, but archived somewhere, but after I tweeted a dig, 

got a response:

and then it basically really took off with this:

And here it went on:

and on

and on

and on

and on

I appreciate Amos Schocken being probably one of the most accessible newspaper owners/publishers.

And the conversation may still be going on in some form still (it is). And more.

And on:

Thank you, Amos.

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Amos Schocken and I at Tel Shiloh

Recently, at my invitation, I was host, together with others, to Amos Schocken, owner and publisher of Ha'Aretz, and led a tour accompanied by archaelogist Reut Ben-Aryeh of Tel Shiloh.

Mr. Schocken spent almost two hours with us and was very attentive and interested in the site's history and the finds.  No politics were discussed.

Photo credits: Tamar Talmudi-Asraf
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Mr. Schocken Erred.

Ari Shavit attacked the Left today, writing

Israel's radical left committed suicide, and now the right will kill us all

Some noticed that the original Hebrew headline simply read

Israel's radical left committed suicide

And they tweeted it with Eylon Aslan-Levy ‏noting

8 hours ago

Hebrew editors wrote "the left is committing suicide". English editors added some flavour.

I forwarded that to Amos Schocken who wrote:

@ymedad @EylonALevy Nonsense. The English headline is an exact quote from Shavit. Don't be losers: read full texts as well.

So, I did.  

The last sentence in Shavit's piece reads:

The radical left, having committed suicide, is now helping the right to kill us all.

Sorry, Mr. Schocken but that is not quite what the headline was conveying when it appears so:

Israel's radical left committed suicide, and now the right will kill us all

The word "helping" is gone.

Is that signifcant?

Well, yes.

Shavit is not only blaming the Left for stupidity but more.  He writes that the Left:

is disconnected from reality. 

it refused to admit the failure of the Oslo Accords, et. al.

it refused to recognize the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip led to rockets on Ashkelon, Ashdod and Tel Aviv

the left is therefore viewed in Israel as delusional, as daydreamers.

the left is disconnected from reality 

the left is disconnected from Israeli pride. 

the radical left committed suicide when it abnegated itself before the Palestinians. 

And, then, his last charge of a guilt is assisting the Right, a double blunder, in his opinion. 

So, the headline does not reflect the full text and is not quite an exact quotation.

Mr. Schocken, I would maintain, erred.

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P.S.

Mr. Schocken has now tweeted:

Good, at least you follow my advice.

But not one to yield or admit to fallibility, he now tweets:

 Another headlines genius: now Y Medad as well.

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P.P.S.

Check this out.

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Haaretz's Amos Schocken: "EOZ Came to My Mind"

In a Twitter exchange regarding Amira Hass, Haaretz reporter and columnist, and her appearance in England when she used the demonic "Elders of Zion" card in her remarks, I asked her editor if he was aware.

He wasn't but he trusted her.

Pressed by another tweeter whether if she sought to include that phrase in an article in his paper, the eventual response was:

Money and Jews.

Jewish money and politics.

Jewish finances, politics and power.

Jewish power and a conspiracy theory of anti-Semitic origins.

That's Haaretz, Ha-Ha-Haaretz.

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P.S.

Is this a bit of a backtrack?

Another update:-

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