From: David Lubkin (lubkin@unreasonable.com)
Date: Fri Apr 19 2002 - 00:36:05 MDT
At 05:48 PM 4/18/2002 -0400, Curt wrote:
> >But "cleanser Israelis"? This is more of the moral equivalency
> >nonsense. Who are these people? Substantiate your allegation.
>
>46 percent, according to a recent poll:
>
>http://www.middleeastinfo.org/article253.html
>
>More than I had expected, actually.
Me, too.
My outrage at the post I was responding to stemmed from the moral
equivalence you were implicitly implying with the use of the term "ethnic
cleansing". If we use your more-neutral phrase 'mass eviction', I'm
comfortable with continuing the discussion.
Are there any circumstances under which you would consider mass eviction to
be an appropriate response, perhaps as the least offensive resolution to
some situation with no good alternatives? Or is it always unacceptable?
(Consider, for example, that Thomas Jefferson and others felt that it be
preferably to forcibly return freed slaves to Africa over attempting to
integrate them into their society.)
-- David.
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