Re: OT: Historical Amnesia

From: John Savard (jsavard_at_excxn.aNOSPAMb.cdn.invalid)
Date: 10/24/04 

Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:37:38 GMT

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:30:01 GMT, "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> wrote, in
part:

>Jim, tell that to the Israelis and the Palis. They don't care about
>the "long run". Besides, why do you mention only Christians and
>Muslims by name and not also the Jews who are right in the
>middle of it all.... .... you are suspect, Jim Klein!

Well, the Christians are known for the Inquisition, and the Muslims for
their invasion of Europe. The Jews are not particularly famous for
having pushed anyone around.

>Why do you mention only these time-distant past figures by name?
>Why do you not mention the currently active ones like Bin Laden,
>Arafat or Sharon?..... omitting them, in particular the latter one
>(perhaps purposely), makes you suspect, Jim Klein.

Actually, Arafat has retired.

Actually, too, he is not suspect - you make yourself suspect by
insisting on mentioning Jews and Ariel Sharon.

I'm not sure what world you live in, but in the world I live in, World
War II is still a vivid memory, and the horrors inflicted on the world
by Nazism are well remembered.

And so it is people who appear to be bigoted against Jews who are
suspected of holding Nazi sympathies, and thus in general people very
carefully work to avoid this.

Since Jews are a minority that is not overwhelmingly disadvantaged
economically and educationally, they do not get in trouble with the law
a lot. There are few cities where someone would be made more nervous
seeing someone else on the street because he looks Jewish, although many
other ethnic minorities inspire prejudice because their poverty has led
some of their weaker members to crime.

Also, the Jews did not march in and take Palestine with an invading
army. Jewish settlement in Palestine was authorized by the colonial
authority, Great Britain, and the partition of Palestine was authorized
by the United Nations. If this was theft, the entire Western world is
implicated. Hence, it clearly could not have been theft.

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html

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