----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 2:05 PM Subject: Re: Child Soldiers RE: This week in the Middle East
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 12:58:12PM -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote: > > > Sorry, Erik, but even excepting all of Jeroen's past statements on > > this issue, there is only one possible explanation that I can fathom > > to explain comparing a people with the organization that tried to > > exterminate them, that systemitically organized a genocide against > > them. That word, Erik, is hatred. > > First of all, as I pointed out and you seem to have missed, hatred is > the wrong word. So is anti-Semite. Just because some makes arguments > that are misguided or ignorant does not prove that they harbor malice > toward Israelis or Jews. How far would you go with this reasoning? Let's abstract it out of the present circumstances, and table (in the American sense of the word, not the British) the quesiton of whether JDG was right or wrong in attributing anti-Semitism to Jeroen. IIRC, a Grand Dragon of the KKK has stated that he is not racist, or anti Semite. Would you think it is wrong to say he is, that we should accept his statements as valid? You are far younger than I and probably don't remember the folks who said "segragation now, segragation tomorrow, segragation forever, and then "smiled and said "heck, there isn't a racist bone in my body, heck some of my best friends are colored." back in the '60s. Is is wrong to call those folks racist? Lets again go to the quotes Gautem posted from the French ambassador and the unnamed high society person in Great Britian. Are they anti-Semetic? Is what they said anti-Semetic? Dan M.
