>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brin-L) >Subject: Re: The N-word [was: Child Soldiers] >Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 10:36:01 EST > >I think one can criticize what the current Israeli government is doing >without descending into needlessly vile and quite totally unsupportable >comparisons. (There is a filthy irony, of course, in seeing Jew-haters >compare Israelis to Nazis, since Jew-haters generally tend to admire what >Hitler and his minions were trying to do - that is, when they are not >attempting to deny what the Nazis were trying to do.) > >In any case, the Israelis are not Nazis; this is not to defend what Sharon >is >doing, but let's be reasonable here. We can criticize him without >descending >into the gutter. > > >Tom Beck >
In an attempt to be constructive, I would strongly suggest that before indulging in purposefully-inflammatory comments onlist those people making such comparisons actually read a first-person account of someone who actually lived through and survived a Nazi concentration camp. Elie Wiesel would be a good start. Read "Night", (It was written in 1958) then read current news reports. There are extreme differences between what the Germans did to the Jews and what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians. Some links to Wiesel's writings: http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/ http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/night/nighttg.html Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
