From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Mon Apr 15 2002 - 07:05:29 MDT
Samantha remonstrated:
<<I worry about anyone who still even thinks in terms of "right"
and "left" personally. The game has gone far beyond that.
Support for Israel is not about "right". Claiming those who
oppose support for Israel or at least think we should respond
strongly against what they are doing now, are anti-Jewish is not
about "right" either. Such positions of opposition to what is
now in Israel and between the US and Israel are also not "left"
and certainly not "anti-semetic".>>
Yes, Samantha, I know your deeply held views already, and am glad you have an
opportunity to share them. On another point, the speechwriter who wrote Barry
Goldwater's 1964 'sinker' that helped sink Goldwater's election ".. extremism
in the defense of liberty is no vice..etc", went on to become a 60's and 70's
Hippy. :-)
The writer, whose father was a Lutheran pastor, had hung around various
groups from ultra-right to ultra-left, and was fascinated by the phenomena of
Jew hatred. He indicated (I can't remember the guy's name) his astonishment
on why the Jews were regularly attacked by this wide swath of society. He
concluded that these groups, especially extremists, painted their own patina
on whatever the Jew happened to be doing.
I notice from watching the news, from being in yahoo chat, that the
Jew-haters get inflamed and agitated, when Israel succeeds at something
audacious militarily. It stirs their blood. The Pope said nothing when, for
example, the PLO destroyed an ancient synagogue at the Tomb of Joseph.
The hyprocrisy of the media, its urge to equivocate (at best) its avoidence
of hard questions to the Muslim states and the PLO (which would then cut-off
story-producing), the self-interest of the Europeans who import nearly all
their petroleum from OPEC, is well-known, at least to me.
My philosophy, about such disengenious, critics is similar to that of the
Bedouin: The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
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