[lit-ideas] Re: Cook's Tour (4)
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 20:20:08 +0100
> If an article says "the us is supplying israel with weapons" it
could mean
> that they are GIVING them
well yes it could. I accept that. So "supply" is ambiguous.
It's not
"loaded", it's ambiguous. So when I said (as I now see I did)
JE>(Hence my knowledge of their supplying arms. I think we
supply
JE>arms parts -- helicopter parts -- rather than arms
I could have been read as saying that the US and the UK donated
the arms and the parts for arms. But the "loadedness" is in
your mind.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Stone" <pas@xxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 6:43 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Cook's Tour (4)
>
> >(I said "sends" re the US, "supplies" re the UK, which *sells*
> >arms to Israel. I assume it is "the US" not some private arms
> >company. "Loaded", I didn't see it as loaded at all.
Frankly.)
>
> I didn't know how to put it any clearer, but I'll try again.
>
> If an article says "the us is supplying israel with weapons" it
could mean
> that they are GIVING them, by using tax-payers money to buy
weapons from US
> arms dealers and then shipping them to israel free of charge OR
it could
> mean that they are just shipping them weapons (therefore being
the original
> place shipment) that they (Israel) has paid for. This is where
I find a
> trouble with the word "supplying" because I've seen it used
both ways and
> so many times that I no longer know which is which. I think
there is a BIG
> difference between selling weapons -- a legitimate business
deal -- and
> GIVING weapons -- an obvious political maneuver. That's all I
meant. And,
> in the case of Israel, it's probably both which is even more
problematic.
>
> not understanding a thing today,
> p
>
>
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