File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9709, message 174


Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 16:09:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: louisgodena-AT-ids.net (Louis R Godena)
Subject: M-I: A few words about anti-semitism




Very few, actually.  It has been a wearing day, with double overtime.  So
bear with me.

Andy rather obviously is trying to tell the list that I'm anti-Semitic.  It
is a way, I suppose, one can try to silence one's critics when rational
argument is ineffective or unpersuasive.  I find Andy's reasoning to be
something of both.  The added verbiage in every post only accentuates,
rather than disguises, the basic poverty of his argument.  His latest is the
most convoluted example of circuitous reasoning and pretzel logic I have
read in many a year.  I have read, heard and seen more academic horsehit in
my life than one can ever imagine.  And most of it was packaged more
skilfully and with greater dexterity than that put forth by poor Professor
Andy.  

Of course, Austin can get away with it in the US.  My Israeli friends tell
me that, in Israel, *everything* is discussed.  It is only here, in
Freedom's Land and Bravery's Home, that the reign of terror vis a vis open
discussion of Jewish crimes against the Palestinian people prevails.  In any
event, I will say no more on the particular subject of Andy Austin.  

In occupied Palestine, there is a whole people who have lost everything,
whose homes, lives, families, and history are being, slowly but inexorably,
liquidated by the occupiers.  It is but a matter of time, before the Beast,
driven mad by the innumerable wounds to its head and underbelly by the
enraged children of its victims, embarks upon a Final Solution to its
torment.  HWE is an important ideological component to this Solution.  There
will always be Professor Goldhagens to serve whatever Beast is abroad at the
moment.  Hitler never wanted for them, nor does Natanyahu.  The rest of us,
however, may be excused for looking askance at that inexorable march that
may yet be stopped before claiming its final victims.  If it is alright with
the defenders of Professor Goldhagen, that is.

And even if it isn't.  


Louis Godena





  






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