On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLWPD/RZO/BOZO wrote: > Gautam > > Well, first, most of us know that the Nazis didn't _deport_ Jews, they > > massacred them. > > And where were they massacred? Exactly, in the concentration camps. And > guess how they got there: they were brought there (hundreds at a time, > usually by train) from wherever they lived in Europe. Since they certainly > did not choose to go there but were forced, they were, by definition, > deported.
Let me get this straight. You think that... a) Nazis transporting Jews from one Nazi-controlled territory to another Nazi-controlled territory in order to murder them en masse... ...is an accurate analogy for... b) allowing, even forcing, Palestinians to choose between becoming loyal Israeli citizens or else moving to other Arab states, states in which Israel would have no control over said Palestinians. And you think it's reasonable to expect everyone to assume that when a person suggests b, they really want a (applied to the Palestinians, that is). And you're outraged that everyone does not immediately make that assumption. Whew! I don't think I've dropped enough acid to follow that logic. :-) What's amazing is that you're so anxious to make a good Nazi-Israel comparison that you've not bothered to examine the multiple unjust aspects of making Palestinians make that choice in the first place! (See Trent's post.) Marvin Long Austin, Texas
