In the third paragraph you ask what the responsibilities of intellectuals are in times of war and genocide.

It sounds like you do expect that some intellectuals will speak against war and genocide, and others, in other countries, will push them to do so. The problem, though, is that the situation is not balanced between the Israelis and the Arabs - the Arabs have no intellectuals, or at least you do not hear them. Look what is taught in their schools and universities. Look at their TV. And look at the reaction of the British intellectuals to that.

Actually, the problem is that when one brave Arab intellectual dares to speak at all, the Europeans are so amazed from the phenomena that they immediately encourage him/her no matter what is being said.

I am quite sure that if the intellectuals from the Arab side were as loud as the left wing Israelis intellectuals, and if the British put on those intellectuals the same kind of pressure, the "right wing" "Monitor of Israeli Academy" would be much less active in this matter.

I think that you should better write to me in Hebrew, I find it hard to understand your point.

Arab countries have a long history of imperialist and colonial intervention. The dictatorship regimes that are in the Arab countries are a produce of colonial intervention and in some cases imperialist military intervention. There are actually Arab intellectual who speak against the corrupt Arab regime who oppress their masses. Not only that, there are secular Arab movement who are fighting or have fought against those government regime. For example, the curds in Turkey have been fighting for decades against the military Turkish government who has outlawed their language bomb them with gas and raid their villages killing and raping. The curds, however, do not receive money and weapon from America, the Turkish military does. If you really are concern with the Arab masses their well being and their intellectual freedom you should target the country that provide their government with money and weapon and train their intelligent forces in tutoring political activists. Infect, you should start a movement in your country that would try to boycott money and weapons receive from America as long as the American government supports dictators in Arab countries. While you at it, you should also organize to boycott millions of dollars from Christian in the U.S. who are not only Anti-Semitic, but have supported dictators in Latin America in the past.

You fight the diesis not the symptoms.

And your point still does not take away the responsibility of intellectual to regard their ideas as if they only relate to theory. If you ignore the issues you only strengthen them.