> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Erik Reuter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: zondag 31 maart 2002 23:31 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: Re: Child Soldiers RE: This week in the Middle East
> Jeroen apparently thinks the Israelis are not justified in occupying > the territories. That is correct. > His insinuation probably means that in their occupation, they are doing > something "vaguely" similar to one thing that the Nazis did. No, what I meant was that Israel and Nazi Germany had one thing in common: they both wanted Lebensraum for their own people, and their own people only. Nothing more; I am not equating Israel's occupation and oppression of the Palestinians with the genocide committed by the Nazis. > I don't think he meant to insinuate that the Israelis are "just like" > the Nazis, only that their actions have one thing in common. Not their actions (although they are both occupation forces and oppressive regimes), but a goal: Lebensraum. > I suggest asking Jeroen for a clarification before continuing the > accusations. Unfortunately, he seems to be unavailable recently. Yeah, well, Easter weekend got in the way. (It came complete with a few days of very nice weather, which were spent doing slave labour in the back yard, removing weed and grass from between the tiles. Some 30-odd square meters done, another 30-odd square meters to go... I still cannot figure out why I did that voluntarily...) > But when he returns, I propose a question for him: "Do you think that > the Israelis are acting as badly, or almost as badly, as the Nazis? If > so, why? If not, what specifically was meant by 'sounds vaguely > familiar'?" No matter how despicable and unjustified Israel's actions are, I do not consider them as bad as those of the Nazis. Although both are guilty of occupation and oppression, at least Israel is not committing genocide. The "sounds vaguely familiar" part was already explained above. > > This was in reference to Israels refusal to accept the right of all > > Palestinians to return to Israel as full citizens, which, IMHO, would > > guarantee the destruction of Israel, and would probably result in the > > death of many or most of the Jews there. He is equating the deisre > > of Israel to remain a majority Jewish state, with only a 20% Arab > > population with the Holocoust. I am not equating Israel's desire with the Holocaust. I am merely pointing out the common goal: a place to live. Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
