Comments on: The Day In Israel: Wednesday Mar 3rd, 2010

By: Stop Motion Verbosity » Say a prayer, Spidey!

Stop Motion Verbosity » Say a prayer, Spidey! — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:30:11 +0000

[...] There’s a guy dressed like Spider-Man, praying at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. Who knows. Israellycool points out that there is a good chance this photo was taken on Purim, given the holiday’s [...]

By: Otra Noticia» ¿Spiderman judío?

Otra Noticia» ¿Spiderman judío? — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:10:19 +0000

[...] si Spiderman estaba ahí por motivos religiosos o por un simple entrenamiento(de escalada). Según israellycool.com, posiblemente se trataba de un disfraz durante el Purim, el carnaval [...]

By: juvanya

juvanya — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:12:03 +0000

Anything you add that has a source with at least a minimum of credibility is helpful.

I just added on the talk page about Jewish lands prior to 1948 that are considered occupied and not even mentioned in the article. I also noted the fact that these lands were Jewish prior to 1948, but are still considered occupied by Israel and that this shows the term 'occupied territories' is biased.

By: juvanya

juvanya — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:59:16 +0000

Oh yeah that one too. I'll take a look.

By: Michael Zvi Krumbein

Michael Zvi Krumbein — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:47:04 +0000

Which article? I was referring to "Israel Occupied Teritories"; specifically the large bit at the bottom about the ICC. I added material to make it neutral (NPOV in the jargon), and the other guy added a whole bunch of stuff that I couldn't do anything else about, except slap a "citation needed" on a bunch of sentences, which I should probably remove now. Same for the talk page. I just don't have enough material; I thought you might.

I really thought I might have caused harm. I asked at the Israel Project for someone to do something, but no-one did.

This stuff is no joke. Even journalists, who should know better (hah!) use it.

By: Michael Zvi Krumbein

Michael Zvi Krumbein — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:42:06 +0000

Sure they can

By: juvanya

juvanya — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:06:17 +0000

I have added my word to the West Bank article. Someone else, possibly a Muslim and Arab, has noticed that the opening to the article is biased. The rest is almost neutral.

I also noted that some of the "settlements" were reconstructed Jewish lands that existed prior to 1948 and cannot be illegal.

By: Michael Zvi Krumbein

Michael Zvi Krumbein — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:53:16 +0000

I was referring to decent sources for things like Reform weddings, sesular Orthodox Israeli weddings (the most common kind here), left-wing Orthodox weddings (double-ring ceremonies where only one ring counts), etc. I took the one part on this out because there was no source and it was prejorative toward Orthodox weddings. The person who put it where is not Jewish, BTW, and often appear to have trouble understanding what he is reading. The is a good chance he will get banned, but I feel a little bad for him, because he is not nasty, unlike one fanatical atheist (not meaning to generalize) who posts in there areas.

By: Michael Zvi Krumbein

Michael Zvi Krumbein — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:47:21 +0000

I'm really more interested in correcting stuff there than trying to get ccoverage for something. The problem in the pro-Israel end is that, thanks to the media, the anti-Israel side claims that there IS only one legitimate viewpoint regarding the territories. Unfortunately, they have the rules on their side to a large extent.

This is, in fact, also a problem regarding Jewish law and particularly the Bible. Since "scholarship" is, just about by definition, anti-traditional, one starts at a disadvantage. Personally, I always prefer to see what the sources actually say, rather than how scholars interpret them, but Wikipedia rules discourage this, for obvious reasons.

By: juvanya

juvanya — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:25:12 +0000

Yeah that article was quite interesting.