Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 00:30:33 -0400
Subject: Re: HAB: lessons in Power, Sharon's latest production


While I don't necessarily disagree with your political take on the 
situation, what business do you think you have raising it here, without 
making any connection to the subject matter of this list?  Isn't also 
curious that your flippant, ironic, smartass remarks on every other topic 
vanish and you are ever so earnest on this one subject alone.  Unless you 
are from the Middle East yourself, I have to wonder why this is.  Maybe you 
are a crypto-fascist shit yourself.

At 12:24 AM 07/24/2002 -0400, bob scheetz wrote:
>Like his appearance in force at the Temple Mount to sabotage the
>Clinton-Barak "peace plan," Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "great
>success" Mon. nite in Gaza City at the hand of a brave young Israeli F-16
>pilot is, if possible, even more stunning as an act of strategic
>provocation.  The choice of weapon, hour, location, was clearly designed for
>maximum effect to  enrage the Arab street and precipitate the US/Israel into
>an heightened and expanded war with Islam.
>
>Sharon & co have every confidence in their death-grip on the US politician
>caste; every confidence  it is incapable of meaningful action (termination
>of the subsidy, withdrawal of weapons licensing) to practice an independant
>policy and dissuade Islam of its complicity.  They know thence that Arab
>rage will recur to America's enemies for support, and will attempt with
>re-doubled fanatic hatred another quantum level of the only measure,
>"terror", available.  Infallibly this will vastly raise the credit of the
>hawks,  Wolfowitz & co,  and finally give them their war with Saddam.
>
>The cunning and conception of Sharon and the Zionists, their single-minded
>pursuit of an ethnically cleansed Greater Israel, imperial hegemon of the
>entire area, is rather breath-taking; but what's more, (and not especially
>regarding Sharon, who manifestly has the stomach) is conceiving how the
>respective peoples, Israelis, Zionists & Americans, could actually support,
>not just so unequal battle/butchery, but for such an unrighteous,
>racist/expansionist, cause.  Probably only an Elie Wiesel could guide us
>thru and reconcile our collective consciences,...so get ready to see a lot
>of him and  epigones.  How wonderful the resiliance and transformations of
>the spirit of nazism.
>
>
>
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