Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 20:15:04 +0100
From: "steve.devos" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.com>
Subject: Re: European Demonstrations


Hugh/all

Perhaps someone can help me understand the following issue - I am 
bemused by the litiny of  pro-israeli ideological nonsense that European 
pro-israeli supporters spout about - the Palestinians and their 
supporters/sympathisers being anti-semitic. How is this possible? given 
that the palestinians are also a semitic people.

It was forgivable of Adorno in his reserach project on anti-semitism to 
confuse the issue - it was after all just a few years after the 
holocaust and the problems of  the day were different. But how do we 
seperate anti-semitism from the excuse of running a country Israel as a 
fascist armed camp? Which is what it appears to be.... as tanks roll 
over houses on the west-bank and 20 year old soldiers talk of 
palestinian's dying couragously as 'fierce and admirable soldiers' -  I 
used to want only fascists to drive tanks into ghettos - now it seems 
that the descendents of the holocaust have become that which murdered 
them in their millions... ah well welcome to the real world...

As the number of deaths and mutiliations rise and the 'body count' 
mounts post 9/11 do you still feel the same about the event? Or do you 
now see it as a episode in the process of globalisation - like forcing 
the peasents of Ghana to buy American rice...

regards
steve

hbone wrote:

>To All,
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>Behind the NYTimes front page of 16 April, and its motto: "All the news that
>'s fit to print", is a 17 page section of International News which I
>searched without finding news of Euro demonstrations re: Israel-Palestine
>conflict.  Of course that doesn't prove they didn't publish
>anything on that subject today.  It's a very large issue.
>
>Regards.
>Hugh
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