"John D. Giorgis" wrote: > > 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.
Don't worry John, I was just saying something that occured to me, not accusing you or anyone else of such behavior (unlike some list members, my flamethrower isn't set on a hairtrigger these days ;D) -j-
