[lit-ideas] Re: Back in Gaza
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:32:42 -0700
Omar,
I'm getting ready to take my wife off to her doctor and possibly the
hospital after that and so am not giving this my full attention. I spent so
much time trying to compare Bush to Hamas that I failed to pay attention to
your premise. No one makes that assumption. I saw you twist my statement
into something it didn't say earlier but paid little attention. Now I see
you built your premise upon your (intentional?) misinterpretation of my
statement. Israel didn't respond to Hamas until after Hamas had been
rocketing it for awhile. The Palestinian mistake was in electing a
Terrorist organization which would be operating in accordance with its creed
which includes the destruction of Israel. Why elect an organization which
has vowed to destroy the powerful state next door? Hamas has denied the
right of Israel to exist. Why buy into that? Either you believe in the
Hamas creed or you have made a colossal error in judgment. Sooner or later
Hamas is going to do something overt and Israel is going to respond. I know
Leftists are crying "cease fire, cease fire," but Hamas and Hezbollah
started this and if I were running things in Israel I wouldn't stop with
Hamas and Hezbollah's rockets in their current locations and their troops
threatening my border. I would do as much damage to these terrorist
organizations as I could, utterly destroying them if at all possible. As I
said earlier, Militant Islamic Terrorist organizations should be eliminated.
You shouldn't mind that since you are a moderate.
Lawrence
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From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Lawrence Helm
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 8:12 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Back in Gaza
Ah, you think that a simple question? Very interesting. It requires the
equating of a president who was elected on a platform that included "No
Nation Building," as he accused the previous administration of. This
president if anything neglected international affairs. It was not his
forte. When the unprovoked 9/11 attack occurred he responded as best he
could with the advice he was given. He recognized that he was attacked by a
terrorist organization. He called his response a war against terror.
Equating this president with a Terrorist organization doesn't work at any
level that I can see. You must have a very strange imagination or I have
not delved deeply enough into all the conspiracy theories in the
Leftist/Islamist psyche. I did read Daniel Pipes The Hidden Hand, however,
so I have made the attempt.
Lawrence
-----Original Message-----
From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Omar Kusturica
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 7:11 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Back in Gaza
Let me try again: if killing Palestinians is okay on
the grounds that the majority of them voted for the
Hamas, is it okay to kill the Americans on the grounds
that the majority of them voted for Bush ? Yeah, it
was a question, and a simple one.
O.K.
--- Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oh, the world! No I didn't get it. . . I don't
> think it fits the world
> however . . . I must not have twisted my mind far
> enough left. . .
> errrrrrrrrrrr . . . no, still can't get it.
>
> You asked a question? I thought you were just being
> cute.
>
> Lawrence
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Omar Kusturica
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 6:49 AM
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Back in Gaza
>
>
>
> --- Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > You've got to get inside a twisted Leftist
> viewpoint
> > and then further twist
> > something I said to see the humor in that, Omar.
> It
> > took me several
> > seconds. Only a Leftist would say that Bush was as
> > bad for the U.S. as Hamas
> > was for Israel.
>
> *The analogy was not Hamas- Israel to Bush-US
> (although Bush is bad enough for the US) but rather
> Hamas-Israel to Bush-world, or at least the Muslim
> world. Would have thought that this was pretty
> clear,
> unless you are evading the question.
>
> O.K.
>
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