I just received an email from AsheDina saying she is going on vacation, so I shall not post more than this until she returns.
Whatever my disagreements with her may be over her political views, that has never been the reason I have taken issue with her on any of the sites she claims I have "stalked" her.
To begin with, the only reason I have gone to any sites is because she has sent me an email to which I cannot reply because she has me blocked, and in those emails she provides a link to those sites.
Secondly, when I arrive at those sites, if her comment is simply a general one on political issues, I never post anything.
The ONLY time I ever post is when she makes a PERSONAL attack on a fellow Jew. Period. And I don't mean a constructive criticism or even a harsh criticism of a policy. I mean making fun of a fellow Jew's NOSE or spreading lashon hara about alleged sexual issues that have no basis in fact.
To tell you the truth, the reason I started following her work is because when I first saw the way she was writing, I presumed that she was in fact not really a Jew. I still want a shyla on the halacha about her comments on her Mad Jewess blog.
But this is the way I prefer to discuss issues. If you look at her blog and tell me that halachically it is acceptable for her to suggest that fellow Jews who disagree with her politically be executed, I shall have to consider that. If you give me talmudic (yes, I know, I didn't capitalize it; sue me) support for her making fun of her Jewish adversaries' phyisical appearance, I shall review it with my Rav. If you tell me that there is halachic support for her to send me a link to another place she is writing, and then submitting IC-3's complaining I am stalking her when she refuses to accept private emails from me, I shall review that as well.
With all the respect it is due, Massuh, I don't find your comment either valid or amusing. I would love to know if your mother would agree that if the nicest things you can say are lashon hara, it's still acceptable to say them because everything else you might say would be worse. I shall not pursue that line of discussion, because I am trying to keep this conversation civil, and I suspect you have less interest in civility than you do in tactical victory.
My major criticism of AsheDina and her husband is that they believe that the ends justify the means, and that they are happy to sacrifice the lives of jews with whom they politically disagree. I see it a lot here in the US. I am not going to go any farther with this discussion today, because I don't want to be accused of spoiling their vacation. I will be happy however, if AsheDina will reprint here any comments I made to her on her blog that she considers to be more inappropriate than those she has made about me. Keep in mind that for most of our interaction, I had the right to presume that nothing I wrote would be posted, and that the only person who would see what I wrote would be she. I made a pledge, which I have kept, not to post on her sites as long as we had a correspondence going. I only went back to posting when both she and her husband blocked my emails to them while still sending emails to me and at the same time making comments about me on their blogs.
As for my "Stalking" her by coming here, the ONLY reason I came here was because SHE sent me the link to something she posted here after telling me that I could not reply to her through email.
Enough. Hag Semayach everyone, and enjoy your Shavuot.