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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (11785)	2/23/2002 5:53:25 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

See how Israel's mean, Jewisher-than-you mentality winds up in the most squalid predicaments: For a staff sergeant in Israel, a separate but equal burial James Bennet The New York Times Saturday, February 23, 2002 JERUSALEM Staff Sergeant Michael Oxman died with five comrades when Palestinian gunmen attacked an Israeli outpost in the West Bank on Tuesday night. On Friday, he was buried apart from them, in the section of a military cemetery set aside for non-Jews. Oxman, a 21-year-old immigrant from Ukraine, considered himself to be Jewish, like his father, but because his mother is not Jewish, he did not qualify under Jewish law. For a society with more than enough on its mind already, the equal but separate treatment accorded Oxman introduced a new a ripple of consternation. "He was Jewish enough to enlist, to fight and to die with them," Oxman's commander, identified only as Barry, told Israel radio on Friday. "It is very regretful, and very sorrowful for us all." The Jerusalem Post published an editorial cartoon Friday depicting the prime minister, Ariel Sharon, standing at a lectern and delivering the message that formed the core of an address he gave to the nation Thursday night: "We must stand together!" Behind the prime minister, the cartoonist drew a coffin draped in the Israeli flag and labeled, "Separate Burial." [...] iht.com Does the US military sort out Blacks from Whites before burying its soldiers in segregated graveyards?