At 20:17 28-9-01 -0400, Bob Zimmerman wrote: >It seems to me that Israel for all of its faults and mistakes is far >closer in its functioning to what we think a government should be than any >other country in the region. And yet totalitarian repressive regimes are >cut enormous slack while Israel can stand accused of Racism.
I think that has everything to do with the nature of those countries. We do not make too much of a fuss over what totalitarian regimes do because we really do not expect any other behaviour from them. Israel, OTOH, is a democracy -- and we do not expect democratic countries to be racist, nor do we accept it. Therefore, Israel will receive more criticism than totalitarian countries. Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://go.to/brin-l
