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You're wrong Louis, there are around 12 million Palestinians and around 300 million US citizens. That's not 70 times more Palestinians than Americans (otherwise there would be 12*70 = 800 million Americans), it's 1/25, 25 times more Palestinians than Americans. So 7000 dead Palestinians would be the equivalent of ...175 000 dead Americans since 1980. But we're getting into a pretty morbid calculation of deaths, and more deaths. That wasn't my point at all. 7 000 dead Palestinians is an outrage. Clear and simple. I'm not trying to get the Israelis off the hook. I'm NOT into the business of Holocaust denial, comparing women and kids lined up and shot with other women and kids lined up and shot on another continent. I'm just frustrated with the pro-Palestinian obsession in let-wing circles. In France, we had a pro-Palestine party campaigning for the Presidential elections (2% of the vote). That was their only program : help Palestine. Can we condemn Israel, boycott Israel, firmly, without it becoming a form of monomania ? ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
