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To: RON BL who wrote (245861)	4/7/2002 3:26:47 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Hi RON, Camel Nazis? Oh, my, do we have thing for colorful disparagement going? You clearly want to stamp a bullseye on your forehead, don't you? Frankly, I agree that there are many Arabs who have sympathies with the Nazis hatred of the Jews. No doubt of it. I thought it was more interesting to point out the irony of Ariel Sharon adopting the methods of the persecutors of the Holocaust, however. A delicious irony, and quite a statement about human nature at its worst. The inference you hope for your readers to make is that the Israeli fascists are a beleaguered minority in a sea of raging hostility. Now that is a "fact" that simply doesn't no stand in the light of day. The Israelis are colonialists, they are a vicious minority who are trying to engage in the worst aspects of imperialism. Any neutral observer would have to come to this conclusion, based on the facts. The words of Mahatma Gandhi, when asked about Jewish encroachments on Palestine in 1938 still ring true today: "Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French...What is going on cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct.... If they [the Jews] must look to the Paestine of geography as their national home, it is wrong to enter it under the shadow of the British gun. A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb. They can settle in Palestine only by the goodwill of the Arabs..... As it is, they are co-sharers with the British in the despoilation of a people who have done no wrong to them. I am not defending the Arab excesses. I wish they had chosen the way of non-violence in resisting what they rightly regard as an unacceptable encroachment upon their country. But according to the accepted canons of right and wrong, nothing can be said against the Arab resistance in the face of overwhelming odds." -Mahatma Gandhi, quoted in "A Land of Two Peoples", ed. Mendes-Flohr ********************************************************** The lesson of history is that the Israelis have clearly been the aggressors, and morally and ethically in the wrong since the founding of the state of Israel. Might does not make right. It merely makes it clear that power is wielded in a most selfish and inhumane way in Palestine, and that able propagandists can prove anything, given enough time to lie about the situation. -Ray