On 21 Feb 2004, at 1:24 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 2/20/2004 4:39:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Someone can believe, for instance, that Isreal's policies are bad, but they always get classified as anti-semitic for stating as such.
Bob Z replies:
This is completely untrue. There is much criticsm of Israel here and in
Israel of their policies. You must realize that Israel is a very political state
and many people vocally disagree with Sharon. What is anti-semitic is the false
comparison of what the Israelis are doing with what the Nazi's did.
Quite so. A bit of torture and assassination is nothing like what the Nazis did. If it were we British would be Nazi-like in our attempt to deal with the Irish problem in the last 30 years...
Israel is defending itself against terrorist attack - suicide bombers blowing up school busses and suchlike. The Nazis were committing genocide against helpless civilian populations. These situations are very dissimilar.
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