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 --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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