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From: "Hermit" <hidden@lucifer.com>
To: <virus@lucifer.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 6:30 PM
Subject: Re:virus: Observer on Palestinian vigilantes
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> I shouldn't be responding to this as it falls into the "neo-nazi"
category.
Is this really true? Seems a very severe charge.
>But I shall so that it doesn't come up again. No, I don't regard Israelis
as "them." Israelis are people too.
Oh well that is something. People no less. Just when I had them down as
werewolves.
>I have family and friends living there whom I care about. That does not
mean that I have to overlook the illegitimate
Justified.
>and oppresive actions of the Israeli government
Suppressive, terror suppressive.
>or their involvement in "ethnic cleansing" (PC speak for genocide).
There is and never has been a genocide in Israel. As Pascal Bruckner points
out in 'The Temptation of Innocence' when he describes French farmers with
banners reading "Stop the Genocide" protesting over fish prices , that
"survivors of The Holocaust or of Rwanda will appreciate the extensive use
of the word."
Time to tone down the rhetoric maybe?
Regards
Jonathan
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