Yesterday, following Zion’s blog announcing the ceasefire in Gaza, I asked Zion twice why she had chosen this forum to participate on, once on that same blog and once on a different blog. Hajminator replied to me, mistakenly thinking I was suggesting Zion should leave. I wish to repost Haj’s post to me followed by my reply to him for the forum as an open question to Zion.
Hajminator wrote me: Yes, Rosie,
Thanks to noiZ, I read two good books: The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World – Avi Shlaïm, and Holocaust is Over – Avraham Burg
By her presence, if one can better understand her intentions and that she can spark such reactions among Iranian.com bloggers. So let it be, let her be here and help us find something we wouldn’t search for otherwise.
My reply to Haj (with minor editing changes):
To Haj re Zion, I would be the last person in the world to…
suggest Zion (or anyone else) leave. Over and over when people have asked me do you defend her I’ve said, not her ideology but her right to be here and be moderated completely equitably (as you know). Over and over I said, if you don’t like what Zion says you have three choices: debate, ignore or defuse (you know post a funny video clip, that kiind of thing..).
The question I asked on this thread and her ceasefire blog, Why are you here Zion ,is to be taken 100% literally. It does NOT mean go away, it means Why are you HERE? She winds up dominating every single discussion on Gaza and she attributes agendas to people the way Girl Scouts sell cookies. So she dominates and agendaizes, so I would like to know her agenda, or more specifically the rationale for her choosing to execute it here.
The question was first articulated to me by another poster comparing my rationale for being here which is transparent (I am a Persophile) with hers which is inscrutable. Does Zion really think for instance that this site is a hotbed of Islamic radicalism. Does she not understand that the volatile polarized language here all the time about mullah-licking Ommati Hebolaahi is a “family thing” that ultimately reduces to the question of “By what means and within what time frame do you suggest the IRI be changed into a secular democracy?” And that only the most deluded paranoiacs do not know this deep inside?
Why do I suddenly bring this why here Zion issue up now? Well, first of all that goldfish struck a chord. Second of all that comment here yesterday of Zion’s about “tribal primitivism” of the people on this thread reminded me of the utter contempt in which she holds many Iranians, and that ceasefire blog simply chilled me to the bone. Not one iota of compassion for human suffering, not one. ALL IT DID WAS IMPUTE AGENDAS AND GLOAT. I am still shocked by the coldness of the wording,. So what is the rationale behind our being chosen as the lucky beneficiaries of such lovely words and agend-“exposing”? Why here? Why i.c..?
At the same time, yes Haj, I know Zion is an excellent source and serves an important function here (although gone way overboard through other people’s collusion in incessantly engaging her…) and can at times be stunningly compassionate, as in her comment o the thread of DK’s video on Arab/Israeli reconciliation.
Anyway, for anyone who’s reading this who thinks for a second Zion’s rationale for being here is she is an Israeli agent of some sort is falling into the thralls of the Iranian National Disease: paranoia. If that woman is an Israeli agent I am the Twelfth Iman. She has done more on this site to inculcate disgust and repulsion for Israel than the massacres themselves, as well as to fan the flames of anti-Semitism from people and in places I’d never imagined possible. Flames I’ve gottne singed by myself, an innocent by-stander. That compassionate ceasefire blog sure helped. Way to go Zion.
Zion, when you are displaying this particular side of your personality: you spread anti-Semtism the way an eagle spreads its wings. proudly, sweepingly and.. .
with a bird brain.
So…why here, Zion, why here?
Whether you answer me or not, whether you even know why or not you’re here, I continue to defend your right to stay and be moderated by exactly the same standards as anyone else, and will continue to get sh-t thrown into my face for it no doubt… and will continue to wipe it off as usual. and procede
Rosie .
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ADDENDUM: I DO NOT WISH TO FAN THE FLAMES OF DISCORD AND I AM SORRY IF I’VE OFFENDED YOU HERE, ZION, BUT FRANKLY I FOUND YOUR TONE AND LANGUAGE IN YOUR CEASEFIRE BLOG TO BE ONE OF THE THINGS ON THIS SITE I HAVE READ MOST OFFENSIVE TO HUMAN COMPASSION AND DECENCY EVER. NOT ONE MENTION OF ONE CASUALTY, NOT ONE. SO MOCKING. I AM STILL REELING.
