At 11:21 AM 9/27/01 -0700 Jeffrey Miller wrote:
>"John D. Giorgis" wrote:
>>
>> At 11:48 AM 9/27/01 +0200 Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM wrote:
>> >> Its funny, though, I was about to start counting all of the times that
>> >> you said nice things about Israel
>> >
>> >I will be more than happy to say something nice about Israel -- as soon
as I
>> >*find* something nice to say about Israel.
>>
>> For someone who:
>>
>> A) Does not like other List Members thinking of him as being Anti-Semitic.
>>
>> and
>>
>> B) Never admits that he's wrong,
>>
>> That was a pretty stupid thing to say.
>
>You know, that's something that REALLY bugs me. You can't critisize the
>STATE of Israel without being accused of anti-Semitism. We're not
>called racist when we critisize South Africa of wonky AIDS policy, or of
>religious descrimination when we suggest that Iran needs to improve
>fiscal policy..
Jeff, why did you write this here?
I was not responding to *a* criticism of Israel, let alone any criticism of
Israel.
Instead, Jeroen said that there was nothing good that he could find to say
about Israel.
Big difference.
JDG
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