----- Original Message ----- From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 3:11 PM Subject: Re: Who is the sheriff?
> At 14:53 4-3-2003 -0600, Dan Minette wrote: > > > >Equating Israel with (or more correctly: comparing Israel to) > > > the Nazis is saying that Israel's behaviour is just as bad as the Nazis' > > > behaviour (without it having to be *identical*); that does not equal > > > anti-Semitism. > > > >What other reason besides blind prejudice could there be? > > Well, lessee. There's the excessive aggression against Palestinians. There > the Israeli/Palestinian body count (IIRC, it's ~3 dead Palestinians for > each dead Israeli). Given the fact that, among other Arabs, the Palestinians have never accepted anything short of the destruction of Israel, what do you suggest? On one side you have an elected government, which includes Arab parties that are very hostile to the leadership as part of the government. On the other, you have dictatorships that treats Arabs worse than Israel does. Do you suggest that the citizens of Israel have no moral action but to accept the end of Israel? >And then there is Sharon's personal track record; only > the die-hard pro-Israel extremists still believe that Sharon *isn't* a war > criminal. He did indeed fail to protect Arabs from being killed by other Arabs when he had the chance. That was wrong. It was in his power to stop it and he didn't. But, are you willing to call war criminals anyone who stood aside and let people be slaughtered? > I haven't gotten around to reading it yet (it's hiding in a subdirectory on > one of the harddisks of one of my computers), but from what I've heard > about it here and elsewhere, I don't believe it is accurate. You know that its taught as history throughout much of the Arab world, right? Comparisons have been made on list between the teaching in the schools of Israel and Palestine. To put it politely, the Palestinians do not come across as the more tolerant group. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
