"our sponsorship of Israel brought on 9/11" -- I am quoting Gerry Storm

[Jon Ford]

Right on all counts, Mike!

Jon


>From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@ando.pair.com>
>Reply-To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
>Subject: "our sponsorship of Israel brought on 9/11" -- I am 
quoting Gerry Storm
>Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:41:49 -0600
>
>Gerry,
>
>You are exaggerating. Majority of Israelis want the settlements 
dismanteled.
>
>You don't know the current demographics as well as you should.
>
>It has changed enormously from early statehood days, yes.
>
>The 1 million voting Russians do tend to vote right wing.
>
>But the truth remains that a thin majority of voting Israelis want
>the settlements dismanteled.
>
>Barak as recently as 2000 at Camp David offered Arafat a
>VERY generous settlement:
>
>94% of the West bank plus some Israeli land. Massive
>dismanteling of certain settlements. Arab capital to be
>in part of Jerusalem.
>
>Arafat having been made an offer he couldnt refused,
>refused. He demanded the right of return of 1948
>refugees into Israel.
>
>SO DON'T EXAGGERATE Israelis' failings. Their
>virtues OUTWEIGH their failings.
>
>THE BOTTOM LINE: the Palestinians want it all
>back, no more Israel is what they are fighting and
>dying for.
>
>dont hold the Israelis up to higher Ghandian standards
>than how you would act! self-defense is a biological
>imperative.
>
>if your enemy is after you to kill you, yud best kill him first.
>this is true on a local level, on the sidewalk, as well as
>between nations. It is called raison d'etat. That is why
>BenGurion gave the order to depopulate as many Arab
>villages as possible during the War of Independence.
>they were fighting for their lives then, again various
>Arab armies
>
>a Jovian thunderbolt onto a cripple in a wheelchair is very
>poetic in a creepy kind of way. if the guy is Mr Bad
>he might be strangely twisted like Mike Meyers in his
>James Bond spoofs. Peter Sellars played Dr Krankhite
>with a German accent from a wheel chair in the movie.
>Life imitates art.
>
>to talk about the jackboots of an Israeli oppression of
>the Palestinians reflects your lack of precise knowledge
>of the present situation and its historical antecedents
>and a lack of reflection on the moral issue
>
>best
>
>Mike
>
>please dont make that pig Sharon into a synecdoche for
>jews in general.
>
>

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