Comments on: Arab and Jewish Teenagers Grow Algae for a Greener Future

By: Darrel Jones

Darrel Jones — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:23:04 +0000

In reply to Def md. I think it's great to see them working together peacefully. This could be the beginning of a peace epidemic in the region that is LOOOONG overdue. I salute all people in the project and would love to come tour the facilities and educate myself. Great job guys! For the sustainable and ecological aspects of what you're doing and also for working and coexisting together peacefully. I can't express how impressed I am.

By: Tzvi

Tzvi — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 07:58:51 +0000

Dear Karin Friedemann,

Self hatred is a terrible affliction. It blurs rational thinking, invents nonsense and then spews it into a cesspool of emotional garbage.

While such masochism may be accepted as someone’s individual choice, it is not acceptable when it deliberately poisons and indeed harms other people. Your irrational, vitriolic response to this positive article is a perfect example of hurting others through your own masochism. So very sad.

By: Karin Kloosterman

Karin Kloosterman — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:48:37 +0000

In reply to Def md. I agree.

By: Def md

Def md — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:38:28 +0000

As an Arab Jew whose family truly was “ethnically cleansed” from Egypt I find your Knee-jerk characterization of Israel as “Illegal Ashkenazi immigrants” both racist and misguided.

Coming from a family of 150,000 Egyptian Jews, I stand with the Iraqi Jews, Syrian Jews, Yemeni Jews, Moroccan Jews, Tunisian Jews, Libyan Jews who make Israel their new home.

Take your soapbox speech and go some place else. Your words are ignorant and despicable and don’t serve the cause of peace.

By: Karin Friedemann

Karin Friedemann — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:46:40 +0000

Nice story, but it just grates at my soul how the article is using the term “Arabs” instead of referring to them as Palestinians. To call them Arabs is racist because it negates the history of Palestine and downplays Zionist genocide and ethnic cleansing. Also, the headline is misleading because it talks about Palestinian and Israeli governments, implying that this project involves Palestinians living in the occupied territories, but then it takes away the Palestinian identity of the students.

I would rather read, “Palestinians work with illegal Ashkenazi immigrants on green fuel projects.” Now that would be progressive.