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Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 10:37:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: louisgodena-AT-ids.net (Louis R Godena)
Subject: Re: M-I: Zionism's Willing Executioners & antisemitism



Carrol, look, the terms "Zionists" and "Israelis" do not cover the vast
majority of Jews who implicitly support -- through their silent
acquiescence-- the rape of the Palestinian people.  It is time to cut bait
with this issue.  Do *all* Jews support the genocidal policies of the
successive Tel Aviv governments?  Of course not, but just as all Americans
did not support our crimes in Iraq, the vast majority were complicit, either
by omission or by actively involving themselves in support of the war.  

As Jim Blaut has rightfully pointed out, this *implicit* support among Jews
for the savagery of Israeli policy remains the appalling case.

Louis Godena 



At 08:32 AM 9/13/97 -0500, Carrol Cox wrote:

>Lou,
>
>	It doesn't cost anything to use the terms "Zionists" and
>"Israelis" rather than "Jews," and nothing is gained by the latter
>term except providing a smokescreen for more Zionist nonsense. So
>why do you go on digging yourself in deeper and deeper by insisting
>on the term? The point is that whatever the statistics are of
>Jewish support of Zionism, there is no *necessary* connection between
>Jew and Zionism, because "Jew" is *not* a political term. And whenever
>you use an ethnic or "racial" designation as though there were
>a *necessary* connection between that classification and some given
>political/social/behavioral practice or viewpoint, you are blurring
>lines.
>
>Carrol

	



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