[lit-ideas] Re: Another Bush failure?


SS writes:
I'll say it for Julie. 

*First of all, I suggest that you don't speak for
others. Julie is perfectly capable of expressing her
own opinions.

You're an anti-semite. I won't beat around the 
bush. 
Your family credentials add a little surprise to the
mix, but your 
words 
matter more. At every turn you've found a way to make
Israel look bad. 
It's 
not Sharon or Olmert you've criticized -- as I've
criticized Bush and 
the 
Republican government -- but Israel. Your views are
not tempered with a 
larger perspective that your background and obvious
intelligence would 
suggest you have. I'm disappointed that that's the
case. I would like 
to 
learn from you. It's clear I can't.

*If you think that criticizing Israel amounts to
anti-semitism then probably indeed we haven't got too
much to talk about. Yes, I do believe that Israel's
violent and oppressive policies toward the
Palestinians, the Lebanese, its own non-Jewish
minorities etc. over the years are not due solely to
personal failures of several politicians. People like
Sharon and Olmert were elected for certain reasons,
and they had reasons to formulate the political
programs they did and to act as they did. I think that
an analysis of Zionist ideology and the ways it has
entrenched itself in Israel's political, military, and
religious establishment, as well as in the
organizations promoting Israel's interests abroad, is
what is needed rather than just superficial criticisms
of whoever happens to be the current prime minister.
The US appalling foreign policies are also due to
deeper structural problems of the American political
system and even the American society rather than just
the personality of the current President and no, I
don't think that a Democrat victory in elections would
change much. If you want to call me anti-semitic or
anti-American on the grounds of these views I guess
that you are entitled to do so, but I on my part am
entitled to not take your opinions at all seriously.

O.K.

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