[lit-ideas] Re: Vanunu's Secret
- From: "Steven G. Cameron" <stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:33:08 -0400
**I lived in the middle east among them for many years. An overwhelming
majority of the Arabs, Farsi, and Druze I worked with were wonderful
people. But this too is merely my own personal experience. It does not
(ever) translate into a measure of them as a whole. I have also met
many truly unfortunate characters in my travels -- it would be equally
irresponsible to judge a group by those individuals -- they only
represent themselves, not the greater cultures they are part of...
TC,
/Steve Cameron, NJ
Andreas Ramos wrote:
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> From: "Steven G. Cameron" <stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 11:29 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Vanunu's Secret
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>>Andreas Ramos wrote:
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>>
>>>>Is it possible that US has been ok with Israel having nuclear weapons
>>>>because there are about 6 million Israelis surrounded by several hundred
>>>>million hostile Arabs? I don't know, just asking.
>>>
>>>
>>>Hostile Arabs? Like, when? All the Arabs I've ever known have been the
>
> most
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>>>decent, hospitable, friendly people.
>>
>>**What are you implying, Andreas?? This is anecdotal evidence of what
>>value?? Surely, even you must understand how foolish your statement is...
>
>
> Of what value? Let's see...
>
> One of my roommates at graduate school was the personal doctor of Anwar
> el-Sadat. Another friend was a professor of physics at the University of
> Cairo. Another flatmate was a professor of surgery at the University of
> Damascus. A good friend was from a banking family in Oman. I've had
> girlfriends from Iran and Algeria. There have been friends from Saudi
> Arabia, Jordan (he was a Boy Scout leader), and Iraq. Turkey isn't Arabic,
> but let's thrown them in as well: I've known good friends from Turkey, both
> Anatolien and east Turkey, plus a number of Kurds. I've known Arabs for
> decades.
>
> Before Carol pops her wig off, my last wife was Jewish and many close
> friends are Jewish.
>
> Anyway, as for the Arabs, Steve, I can assure you: they don't have tails.
> They don't have little horns. They don't fantasize about murdering you in
> your bed. Well, okay, I'll admit it: some of them do. One friend was a
> member of the Gray Wolves and even then, we got along. Asides from him, the
> rest were among the most decent people I've ever known, on the level of the
> best sort of gentlemen from Japan or Europe, or even a few Americans.
>
> Steve, I know it's so very stylish these days to be racist against Arabs. W
> Bush is slaughtering them by the truckload every day in Iraq, just to keep
> from losing the upcoming election. However, I won't go along with that
> fashionable trend, even though you may think it very foolish of me.
>
> yrs,
> andreas
> www.andreas.com
>
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