A couple of days ago, I remember being puzzled about the
relatively recent flurry of clearly (in my mind at least)
"anti-Israeli" or anti-"Semitic" e-mail flowing
through this list. People whose posts I'd been reading for
years--people whom I would "normally" have classified as being
"liberal" and consequently pro-Israeli--were taking a
disturbing turn toward the "classic" dislike or even hatred of
the Jewish state and it's people in a manner which I had grown accustomed
to seeing as stereotypically "right wing." I have seen
this turn not only among members of this list, but also among a few of my
closest friends.
I was at a loss to explain or understand this phenomenon--until reports
such as the one excerpted below began to find their way into the
mainstream media. I may remain perplexed about the ancient hatreds
between Israelis and Arabs in general, but I am no longer confused about
the cause for the current outrage. Israel has become the monster it
most reviled. The victim of great horrors has become the
perpetrator great horrors.
Other accounts:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-268533,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$IWRB3RYAAF115QFIQMGSFF4AVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2002/04/16/wmid16.xml&sSheet=/portal/2002/04/16/ixport.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,685133,00.html
At 09:54 AM 4/16/2002 -0400, you wrote:
-Caveat Lector-
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=285413
Amid the ruins of Jenin, the grisly evidence of a war crime
>From Phil Reeves in Jenin
16 April 2002
excerpt
A monstrous war crime that Israel has tried to cover up for a fortnight
has
finally been exposed. Its troops have caused devastation in the centre of
the
Jenin refugee camp, reached yesterday by The Independent, where thousands
of
people are still living amid the ruins.
--
Edward ><+>
If you have fifty problems and one of them is government, you have only
one problem.
http://www.global-connector.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/reality_pump/
