On Monday 13 February 2006 14:53, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > Jones Beene wrote: > > Stephen, > > > >> There is an unbelievable amount of anti-semitic garbage on the web ... > > > > Yes this is true. And the "S" in Semitic should be capitalized. > > > > Let me state for the record, that I do not have an anti-Semitic bone in > > my body, am a big fan of almost everything in traditional Jewish culture > > and literature, and am perhaps the only vortexian to (partially) speak > > Yiddish. I do not like their Spy Agency messing in US internal events, > > however, and I detest the radical form of Zionism, and even Sharon - as > > do most of my Jewish-American friends. > > > > Please be aware of this salient fact: > > > > YOU CAN ACCUSE MOSSAD OF INVOLVEMENT IN WTC without being anti-Semitic. > > You can detest Mossad without being anti-Semitic. You can detest radical > > Zionism (including Sharon) without being anti-Semitic ! > > > > Any attempt to portray this investigation of Mossad and 9/11 as > > anti-Semitic is itself anti-American and DESPICABLE from anyone who > > considers himself to be an open-minded American partiot. > > OK, points taken... sorry. > > I spend too much time hanging around the relativity newsgroup, where > real anti-Semitism crops up all too often. And then I start seeing it > where it isn't. > > > And BTW our own State Department site is intentionally pandering > > **Disinformation** on this issue. One hopes it is not based on an > > ulterior motive to protect those in the administration who are friends > > of Mossad. > > > > They (State) do no address the issue of the *single* Israeli casualty > > (i.e citizen of Israel), nor the Odigo warning, but instead they > > intentionally try to confuse that issue (and make it appear as > > anti-Semitic - by callously throwing in the names of all the Jewish > > Americans who perished. This in itself is an act of anti-Semitism in > > that it assumes that if you have a Jewish wounding name, you are Jewish. > > They did not check the action religious preference of these people (as > > such would be a violation of law - for one thing). That is not only > > IRRELEVANT, as an implication (unless any of them were patrons of Odigo) > > but is somewhat disrespectful of their memory and is anti-Semitic in its > > assumptions. > > > > Shame on you! Department of State for this piece of intentional > > disinformation, disrespect for the families of the deceased, and veiled > > anti-Semitism!
Lets get one thing straight here. Ethnologically and biologically, the Semite people are ALL the people of the fertile crescent and their descendants. That means not only Israeliis, but Arabs, Chaldeans, Medes, many Egyptians, Yemenis, Adenites, Djiboutians, and many, many others. To say anti-semitism only refers to a minority of these peoples like the people of the book is wrong. The Jewish people cannot claim ownership of all things Semitic. Jordanians get Kaposi's Sarcoma and other typical 'Semitic' diseases as well. Standing Bear
