israel engages in demographic warfare and ethnic cleansing; enacts segregationist policies that deprive non-jews of equal rights and equal protection under the law; uses violence against its own citizens (on the right and left); brokers arms deals with human rights abusers; trafficks in sex slaves, narcotics, and blood diamonds; deprives holocaust survivors of financial aid; refuses entry to refugees from genocide; denies the armenian genocide; tolerates violence against women and homosexuals; coddles christian fundamentalists; and is governed by criminals (including, notably, sex offenders).

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Can someone, anyone please explain to me how this complete and total idiot qualifies as a “top talent in Jewish journalism?” How can this man be the Director of Digital Media at the JTA, an organization funded by my donations to Federation? Why are you all silent about this?

But they all got a little Paul Bunyan in them. Like our guy Minnesota Moishe:

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Mobius, gone but not undiscussed. I didn’t like commenting on Jewschool because too often all I wanted to write was “Una boca cerrado no entre mosca.” But for the most part he thought before he shot off his mouth.

In any case, it’s the mark of an interesting person when after they move on you tell them “We’ll miss ya. Good luck and good riddance.”

Aaack, aaack, aaack….

That’s the sound of me choking on it.

*sigh*

Of course the JTA hasn’t hired Mobius for his editorial stance. They didn’t hire him for his programing skills either. They hired him because of his ability to attract a young Jewish audience using new media tools. I am going to hope for the best, but I will continue to expect the worst. Mobius has always been a loose cannon and he is capable of just about anything. We’ll be watching and waiting for the crashing sounds emanating from 7th Ave.

Of course I am being facetious. But this is Mobius’ legacy: a delusional sense of self importance which did not allow for nuance or dissent and was often accompanied by some of the vilest, most paranoid and most self-righteous rhetoric ever produced in a medium not exactly known for its gentleness. I also couldn’t help but notice that you didn’t comment on the rest of what I wrote.

Sarah: Yes. I got the analogy. Sorry if I don’t see Mobius as a Promethean character. I always felt that likening oneself to a god was an act of extreme hubris. I am no more or no less anonymous than anyone else here. That ought to have no impact on the content of my speech. Everyone is free to celebrate Mobius’ legacy just as I am free to celebrate his inevitable drift into obscurity and to ridicule his new role deep in the bowels of the Jewish establishment.

Notice the word apartheid is in quotes? Perhaps that’s because Dr. Sinclair (whom I know quite well) is strongly opposed to that comparison?

Say what will will about Mobius, but at least he understands what he reads.

Looks like you have the potential of starting a legacy of stupidity all your own. Perhaps you could call it “Reading Without Context”.

Prometheus was an immortal, a God. That part of the analogy fails as Mobius is hardly god-like from what I can tell. He was a shit disturber though, and he was punished for the deceit involved in the theft of fire by Zeus. Zeus chained him to the top of a mountain (new job?) and every day an eagle would pop by and eat his liver – but because Prometheus was immortal he would not die. He would just suffer while his liver regenerated itself – only to be eaten again the next day (the torture of a 9 to 5 existence?). Prometheus’ torture lasted 12 generations and while he was eventually freed by Heracles he pretty much never accomplished anything of note again (Dan’s future as a Jewish community professional?).

Good luck to the JTA, hiring Mobius was a stupid and foolish bold and daring move. Mobius need not worry about the future of Jewschool as his legacy clearly lives on. Already shamirpower has made the Israel/Apartheid analogy, suggesting that those that use highway 443 make up for it by making a small donation to some worthy group like Peace Now. Given that highway 443 was closed to Arab traffic because of a number of terrorist incidents during the intifada, it might be a better idea to make such payments to victim of terror groups instead.

Mobius’ stupid legacy is alive and well.

Also, while you probably disagree with me on a lot of issues, you were a major impetus (along with Jewlicious, of course) in starting my blog, The New Centrist:

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