M, We had 5 puking 3 year olds so I feel for you.
I didn't bandy around anti-Semitism. I was kidding Chris who constantly talks of the nasty Semites in Israel - including in the post you answered, where he likened the Israelis to the Nazis. He rose to the bait. You'll recall I pointed out that both Arabs and Israelis were anti-Semitic. Actually, considering the meaning of 'bandy' - I can probably be accused of being a banderer (?). If you haven't noticed it, check Chris' continual posting of anti-Israel remarks. But, then, how could it not be noticed. He may have guilt feelings about Switzerland's expanding trade with the Nazis in WWII -- and then there were those Nazi deposits of Jewish gold - surely enough to make a good Swiss twitch a little. As I mentioned in another post, some 30 years ago I set up an "Arab-Israeli Dialogue" program on Pacifica. We may have made a little progress since then, but I fear not a lot. Still we can hope. Harry ******************************* Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 818 352-4141 ******************************* > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:futurework- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of M.Blackmore > Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 9:04 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Futurework] Effectiveness vs. Ethics (was > Re:LondonUndercover Police were Trained in Israel) > > On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 15:27 +0200, Christoph Reuss wrote: > > > The similarities between zionism and nazism are indeed striking. > > No wonder -- their roots are the same, as are many of their > practices > and goals. > > OK, discussions along this line make me feel uncomfortable, and > accusations of anti-semitism have been bandied hereabouts ... > > But that is an interesting statement, so OK, I'll bite. What are the > roots that are the same? > > I suspect that practices of any regime suppressing another people > will > be the same, just varied according to technology available at a > particular time, as well as what hedging powers may cramp their > style. > > I've never seen the Nazis as particularly qualitatively different from > other exterminators at other periods in time, just inevitably more > systematic in their ideological and technological aspects compared > to > what was available in pre industrial revolution societies. > > For me the question has been - why the Germans (and Japanese) > and why > not somebody else? The United States pogrom and land theft from > the > locals comes to mind, and the continuation of slavery into the > modern > era in other forms - why didn't that get industrialised into death > machines (then, one wonders if it might do so now). > > I'm not expressing this well ... have a nasty fibromyalgia hit having > been up all night with puking 3yr old, so have been into the opiates > bottle, hence fuzzy brain. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [email protected] > http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
