Is Riverdale A Settlement?: Synagogue attack puts Israel and Arabs on trial in the Bronx

Jewish Week ^ | 12-14-02 | Jonathan Mark

[Consort]

The Bronx

[Klein-Bottle]

What Cohen wants is to bring the world’s battles back to the United States. The world is full war and hate. Do Kurds have the right to kill Turks and Iranians in Virginia? Is it OK for the various African tribes to continue their killing on American soil? Is there no problem if New York Hindus and Muslins throw a couple of firebombs at each other as happens in India?

If the jury frees these criminals, then a frightening message is being sent not only to Arabs, but also to every person who has come to our shores and wants to bring his or her hatred along.

[mrustow]

the most rustic corner of the Bronx.

That should read "the most rustic corner of The Bronx."

Folks in Riverdale are so pretentious, that for years, I thought there were TWO Riverdales, one in The Bronx, and another just over the border in Westchester County. That is because I have encountered businesses (a Jewish private school, I believe it was) that claimed the fictional postal address of "Riverdale, N.Y." Their real postal address was "Bronx, N.Y." (The postal address for ANYWHERE in The Bronx is "Bronx, N.Y.") And yet, I'm not sure that the proper response to such pretentiousness is to firebomb folks' synagogues.

[SJackson]

Cohen is still fighting the battles of Bill Kunsler, his mentor.

They lost before in America, and they'll lose again, this verdict notwithstanding (I have great faith in the jury system, but there are aberrations).

The underlying premise of his defense in both immoral and un-American.

[judicial meanz]

I absolutely, positively, most assertively am declaring Cohen would be first in line to get his Zonderkommando ticket punched.

The Zonderkommando existed. They are not a fantasy. My uncle liberated Dachau with the US 45th Division in 1945.The first thing that happened was the "accidental" machine gunning of the camp guards. The second thing was a lot of score settling between camp inhabitants and others who had collaborated and had others killed.

My uncle, who was, like the rest of my family, born Jewish in America, was horrified by the whole experience, and made absolutely sure we never forgot the forces that he witnessed there, and all the way through Europe as a Jewish-American soldier.

I make sure my children understand those forces today as well. My kids learn baseball, democracy, and as much as I can tell them about human nature after my experiences.

[judicial meanz]

I had to laugh...my wife was born in Riverdale...LOL

[El Gato]

that began more than 50 years ago with the creation of the State of Israel, when Palestinians were thrown out of their homes

Well, all the prosecution has to do to counter this line of argument is to present the facts. The Arabs in those parts of Palistine that became the infant state of Israel were NOT thrown out of their homes. They either left voluntarily, at the behest of various Arab groups who assured them that they would get not only their own property back, but that of the Jews too, when the Arab Armies threw the Jews into the sea, or they were bought out. Many were of course bought out well before, since Jewish settlement in the area had been ongoing since before 1900, and of course there were some Jews there long before that. Try again Mr. defense attorney.

[El Gato]

Time to buy a gun.

and go directly to Jail? Riverside is a neighborhood in New York City, is is not? The city fathers, sadly many of them Jews, have declared the Second Amendment and almost identical provision of New York state law (substitutes "cannot" for "shall not") do not apply in New York City. Mere possession of a gun, without registering it, is a crime. The rules and regs for obtaining the necessary licenses are to say the least draconian. See the NRA synopsis for NYC for all the nauseating details. Best to have your barf bang handy before clicking on that link.

[El Gato]

Riverside

I meant Riverdale of course.

[Lent]

He represents Nazis? Shame. Left some Arab Islamic putz defend these modern-day nazis.

[hellinahandcart]

And who’s that at the defense table for the Riverdale case? Lynne Stewart, who joined the Rahman defense team after Rahman’s other attorney, Ramsey Clark, told her that “if she refused, the Arab world would feel betrayed by their friends on the American left.”

JESUS CHRIST!

I'm gonna have a stroke. I HATE this woman...

[MarkL]

When are people going to get it...

It's not about Israel; It's not about land; It IS about Jews, and the fact that Arabs want ALL Jews DEAD... It's something that could be conveniently overlooked when most of the dead Jews were in Israel, but now, the real desire of the arabs is coming into view. And when they're done with the Jews, they'll be coming after Christians.

Mark

[hellinahandcart]

WHY is she still practicing law, and WHAT us it going to take to finally put this damnable bitch behind bars??

I'm so mad...she never represents anyone unless they're an America-hater, a Jew-hater, a baby-killer, or an outright terrorist. AWfully confident that continuing to represent these scumbags won't come back to bite her in the ass at her own trial, isn't she?

I wonder what she knows that we don't...

[Abar]

Somebody needs a dirtnap.

[Abar]

Several somebodies.

[Alouette]

when they're done with the Jews, they'll be coming after Christians.

"First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people."

[Clemenza]

Pathetic.

I'm surprised that the perps didn't hail from my neighborhood, Bay Ridge, aka "Bay Ruit" (at least parts of it). There is a small synagougue here that I heard has hired armed guards in case "the neighbors" get similar ideas as these two idiots.

BTW: Riverdale, like Forest Hills, was a nice area filled with single family homes until some genius developer decided to fill both neighborhoods with some of the ugliest Condo/CoOp developments this side of Tamarac. I agree, Rustow, with the pretentiousness of Riverdale residents, but disagree with many assessments that it is the "nicest" section of the Bronx. That honor goes to City Island and portions of Throgs Neck near the water.