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On Mon, 31 May 2010 21:49:04 +0200 dan <[email protected]> wrote: > Can we condemn Israel, boycott Israel, firmly, without it becoming a > form of monomania ? And just what's wrong with monomania? I can't claim to be quite so focussed as to deserve that honorable term myself, but I'm quite willing to acknowledge that Israeli atrocities bother me more than atrocities elsewhere. This is because my own country's government supports these atrocities, up to the hilt, and because I live in a social world where every day you meet people who will go purple in the face making a case for them if the subject comes up. For a lot of us, Zionism is an in-your-face, immediate, on-the-table problem in a way that similarly vile phenomena elsewhere in the world are not. The guy standing next to me at the lox counter in Zabar's is unlikely to defend Hutus killing Tutsis, or vice versa, but the odds are better than even that he'll find a good word to say for the Gaza "incursion", or this weekend's quantitatively insignificant police action. -- Michael Smith [email protected] http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com "I am in favor of leaving people alone, no matter how imperfect their polity may seem." -- Stephen Maturin, MD ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
