[rollei_list] Re: Cruising to the End: Middle-East Politics

  • From: "Robert Lilley" <54moggie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:44:37 -0400

How bout them Klesmatics!  

Rob

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Subject: [rollei_list] Cruising to the End: Middle-East Politics

At 07:37 PM 9/10/2007, Jerry Friedman wrote:
\
 >I am always relieved when our best and most thoughtful
 >people are able to find the true locus of evil: Jews. Oh,
 >excuse me, it was Israel, not Jews, right? Only Jews who
 >seek control over their own lives? is that it?

You are entirely missing the point I am making.

The State of Israel has a long history of both 
denying rights to its Arab citizens and to 
committing sins of commission by blasting away 
whenever an act of terrorism is committed against 
it.  That is, if some Palestinian terrorist blows 
up an Israeli school, the result is the Israeli 
military action destroying twenty blocks of some 
Palestinian town. This is an absolute violation 
of those Nurmburg doctrines to which I find 
exception:  you are not permitted to hold an 
entire populace guilty for the sins of the 
few.  Sorry about that.  But Israel has violated 
the Nuremburg Doctrines since its creation.  For 
that matter, the execution of Eichmann, deserved 
or not, was a violation of these doctrines.

With a name like Small I'm supposed to be 
anti-Semitic?  Oy vey! Everyone who has ever met 
me has presumed that I am of Jewish heritage and 
I do know some Yiddish and Hebrew.  I do not know 
enough of either.  But I do know that barbaric 
behavior is intolerable, whether committed by 
Communists or Israelis.  It is simply 
intolerable. Doesn't that pretty much end this 
discussion, or are you going to try to explain 
why the Israelis doing to Palestine as Another 
Nation did to, say, the Ghetto in Warsaw is different?

Marc


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Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!

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