Dear Fr. J

Since you are basically deeply religious person, and furthermore, in our recent trip to Domus Galileo, on the way back, I noticed in you unexpectedly a pattern of shyness, similar, I think, to that of a young nun (When I mockingly mentioned Zur's ''winning'' the Rumanian woman - being near her in her car, when I said ''the guy closer to a woman is the one that takes her''), I must tell you something perhaps not quite recognized in your world:

My personal problem is not that of political left or right, not even the question of how ''patriotic'' I am.

I am facing quite a different problem, that is related to that of trying to maintain one's individuality in a sphere ruled by collectivistic approach, when people belonging to groups of ''insiders'' are given the intellectual property of people who are ''outsiders'' - outside the establishment, so to speak:

In the present war I was the first to coin and develop some of the key terms later adopted by the Israeli left. However, my articles , where published in left-wing internet magazines, their publication was delayed and they were shortened while insiders got my material, and their articles which were in most part plagiarism, appeared in full form few days before my article. This happened even when my articles were ordered by the editor, saying that it will be published on the very same day - well it did not.

This pattern appears over and over, making me ''explode'' with anger mixed with sense of powerlessness. You may be familiar with this pattern in Slovakia at the time of the Communist rule, where there were ''faked intellectuals'' who enjoyed the fruits of the work of original creators who were themselves excluded, hidden, and presented as marginal figure, often of a problematic nature...

My father, who died on June 2008 used to say to me: ''Nothing will come out for you from these sites, These people are ''Nevelot'' (Evil, bastards, in Hebrew). Pity on your time, write in English only''.

Michael

You screwed up the business in the early 70's. Rather to work hharder you became glampy and lazy guy.

Shame of you Sharon for blaming others in your failure. It's simply pathetic and far away from the simple truth which we both know.

S.M