On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLWPD/RZO/BOZO wrote: > I am pointing out that to some extent (deportation), Ilana is promoting > doing the same thing the Nazis did to the Jews. Nowhere in my posts will you > find me saying her plan includes genocide.
I suppose that for the very weakest definition of deportation, you might be right, but by that definition hundreds of thousands Palestinians have already been "deported." To be "outraged" because Ilana suggested a more humane way of doing something that's already been going on is silly. The crucial fact that you overlook, and which warps your comparison, is that the Nazis never offered Jews citizenship; never offered to send them to non-Nazi countries where presumably they would be out of Nazi control; never offered Jews a choice. You want us to equate the two acts through the word "deportation," but Ilana's "deporatation" and the Nazis "deportation" are two wholly dissimilar things. > > > 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). > > I never said that. That "expectation" exists only in your mind. Reread your posts. It's the justification for your "outrage." I've nothing further to add. Marvin Long Austin, Texas
