Dan Minette wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 5:12 PM > Subject: Re: Tragedy in Israel > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jeffrey Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 3:08 PM > > Subject: Re: Tragedy in Israel > > > > > > > > > > > From where I am standing, Americans seem to have enormous difficulty > > > > making that distinction. > > > > > > There's a host of emotional baggage and political realities that make it > > > difficult to discuss here without tempers rising. I wish it were > > > different =8^/ > > > > > > > >As for the reason, you live in a country where, for the most part, > > Jewish > > > > >people are afraid to live. > > > > > > Could the original poster back this up with something? Thanks. > > > > > > > Well, its two fold. First, Jewish people voted with their feet. Most who > > remained left. You can see that by the small numbers remaining, compared > to > > > > This was not as clear as I wanted it to be. I meant to say that most who > survived the Holocaust left.
Why? Because they were unwelcome due to anti-Semitism or racism, or because of the horrid memories of the millions lost and the promise of a new world built with their own hands in their ethnic homeland? -j- -- "O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend, The brightest heaven of invention!"
