At 08:44 PM 1/13/02 +0100 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>>It's clear to any person with eyes
>>to see it that there are lots of people in Europe and the rest of the world
>>who have no interest whatsoever in the justice or injustice of anything the
>>US or Israel does - they seek only to criticize to satisfy some internal
>>compulsions that we cannot, and should not, take seriously or allow to
>>constrain our actions.
>
>Do you realise how insulting that statement is? You imply that much of the
>rest of the world criticises the US and Israel only for the sake of
>criticising.
No, Gautam did not say "much of the rest of the world", he said "lots of
people."
No Gautaum did not say that it was "only for the sake of criticizing" he
said to "satisfy some internal compulsion" - such as the compulsion to
criticize the US and Israel at every opportunity.
JDG
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