little sisters and death wishes
Wayne Johnson
austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Fri Mar 26 18:55:47 2004
So, Jon, don't hang with the Gibson crowd anymore?
I agree with your sentiments, btw.
wayne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Ford" <jonmfordster@hotmail.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 1:03 PM
Subject: re: little sisters and death wishes
> Michael-- I keep hearing this "Israelis are Nazis" metaphor; Israelis are
> Fascists or Zionism is Fascism is another variety. All this is illogical
in
> the extreme, really only a type of name calling propaganda having its
> origins among the Palestinian hate-mongers. At best it's a faulty
analogy
> (Like the Nazis, Israel has a lot of guns, and they use them against their
> enemies. So you might as well say every country with an army is Nazi. But
> there is a lot more to being a Nazi or Fascist than that!
>
> To say Israelis are "reborn Nazis" is pushing the little comparison into
> the domain of the X-Files, making hate speech and faulty thinking into
> something mythical, creating a "true believer" religion out of hating
> Israel, Israelis, and, more generally, Jews. Makes me want to vomit.
>
> Jon
>
>
>
>
> >From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@ando.pair.com>
> >Reply-To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
> >To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
> >Subject: re: little sisters and death wishes
> >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 03:16:34 -0600
> >
> >I wrote:
> >
> > > The Israelis are not reborn Nazis,
> >
> >Peipi wrote:
> >
> > > How do you know they're not!?
> >
> >They know they are not just as I know I am not a reborn Nazi.
> >
> >Maybe you have doubts about yourself in this regard. I cannot
> >be a reborn Nazi because I do not share their views. If you
> >were to say, maybe you are a reborn Nazi even though you don't
> >share their views, I would say that that is self-contradictory
therefore
> >impossible.
> >
> >If you delight in self-contradiction, then I would conclude you
> >have an animus against logical thought as well as against Israelis.
> >
> >In other words, your considerable amount of brainpower is going
> >to waste. Of course if embracing Buddhist mumbo-jumbo makes
> >you feel better, hey its a free country. Your sister and/or you are
> >like the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland who boasted that she
> >sometimes believed in up to 5 impossible things BEFORE
> >BREAKFAST.
> >
> >Best,
> >
> >Mike
> >
>
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