Amazon spams its customers, touts anti-Israeli views,, prohibits the Israeli book on antiterrorism Options

[sheila19621]

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.samsonblinded.info . 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.

[tswart1]

OK

[Dana]

i "LOVE" it how people have all these firm opinions about how things should be done here and about the way my country reacts in these situations without ever having to live under similar conditions. ever. it's the easiest thing in the world to sit in your big comfortable chair in a country so isolated from it's enemies and without fearing that any minute now a huge rocket might hit your house or your friends' houses.

[slainte]

hear, hear.

thoughts and prayers are with you, your family, friends and everyone else is such a tragic situation.

[Dana]

thanks.

i hope all is well with you and your bunch.

This post has been edited by Dana: Jul 18 2006, 9:22 am

[chook]

dana--i hope you and your family and friends are all safe through all of this.

and if you want to get away for a while and need a place to stay, i could talk to ben and see if he has room at his house for you!

[slainte]

^^^^omg~the chook has a sig quote!!!! no surprises there, tho...

honest, dana, the cave is here if you need a place. but from what i have heard, BEN is it!!!

[Mercury46]

thanks.

i hope all is well with you and your bunch.

It is. We're all sitting around in La-Z-Boy chairs eating McDonald's and drinking Coke.

[crustyclown80]

The war going on in the Middle East saddens me.