Interviews Part II

[holzman_tweed]

Due to technical difficulties (In that thread and that thread alone, there seems to be an error on the HTML production which makes the whole page of dialog unreadable without my copying the source to disk, fixing the HTML and reading it locally), I'm continuing the interview thread here.

To recap, I am working on interview questions for:

• starstraf
  
• violent_solace
  
• jadegirl (if I can think of some questions)
  

If I've missed you, please let me know.

dmlaenker, how can I possibly mind being found attractive, charming, and devilish by someone with the good taste to like queso fundido?

Comments

[dmlaenker.livejournal.com]

Liek, OMG.

Seriously. I've rarely been so flattered. :o)

I do have a serious question, though, as long as you're talking about interviews:

On your website, you talk a lot about the Israeli campaign against Palestinians. It's intriguing. Do you have a manifesto regarding Israel itself? Do you think the Israeli state has a right to exist, and if so, under what conditions?

[holzman.livejournal.com]

My Israeli manifesto can be summed up as "Under the Torah, Yhvh grants Israel to the Jews on condition of their good behavior. Modern Israelis are behaving very badly, thus the Biblical claim to the land falls. That disposed with, I believe that a nation that exists has the right to continue existing, barring a small number of circumstances that haven't happened in Israel yet. I believe there are a number of sanctions short of destroying the country that Israel should face for its behavior, such as a loss of American financial support and I think our government should have started pressing Israel to sit down and make peace when it became clear 20 years ago that they were relying on continued conditions of unrest in Palestine to provide a cover to justify ever-increasing settlements.

All that said, I should point out that Palestine is neither the first nor the last complaint I have about Israel. I think their privileging Orthodox Judiasm over other forms, the explicitly racist policies internally, the sexism enshrined in law and custom, and the turning a blind eye to rampant human trafficking for prostitution are all atrocities as well.

[dmlaenker.livejournal.com]

Oh! Cool, man. Well said.

I haven't heard much about the Israeli sex industry, save a passing reference in the lyrics to Midnite Vultures. But then, there's a lot of things about mail-order prostitution and globalization on that album, and it doesn't elaborate much.

[inkuwait.livejournal.com]

if it wouldn't be too difficult, would you write some questions for me, please?

julia