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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (32550)6/18/2002 4:53:23 PM
From: LindyBill   of 281500
 
Yeah, here is a couple of paragraphs that sum up the problem. I find it interesting watching the pro-Israel posturing of Daschle to the right of Bush lately, while the public left on Israel here is much to the left of him.

>>>> Particularly since 11 September, a strange-looking global alliance has formed against Israel, incorporating Islamic fundamentalists, European neo-Nazis and anti-globalists. Many, in all three groups, had previously shown little interest in the plight of the Palestinians: the Israeli state has become a sort of ersatz America, a symbol of all that they hate about contemporary capitalism.

For Israeli, read western; and for the west, read modernity. What the anti-globalists share above all with their newfound fellow-travellers among the Islamic fundamentalists is a loss of faith in the modern age and in Enlightenment ideas. The spirit of their protests was captured by a banner at a recent rally in Berlin: "Civilisation is genocide".<<<<<<<
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