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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (14413)	5/6/2002 3:57:20 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

LOL... A witty piece of comparative history indeed. Then again, as I said, there IS a difference between European colonization of America and Zionism: the balance of power between Native Americans and European settlers is incommensurate with the one between Israelis and the Arab world. If both situations were indeed fully comparable then how come Israel with all its nuclear missiles can't expand beyond a mere coastal strip? Besides, today's world demographics is quite different from the 18th- and 19th-century ones: there were no Indian minorities in Europe to influence public opinion and denounce colonialism's atrocities. Western society as a whole was also much more violent: while a racist worldview prevailed from top to bottom, condoning crimes committed against non-white/Christian peoples, a classist prejudice within European countries (and also the US) allowed the ruling classes to crack down on social unrest with unbridled brutality.... 19th-century strikes, demonstrations, hunger protests, etc. often ended up in bloodshed --dozens of protesters were simply shot down by the gendarmerie or the military. If the anti-globalization demonstrations (Seattle, Genoa) had occurred in the 19th century, the media would likely have reported hundreds of fatalities among anarchist and green protesters.... So, I have no qualms when comparing the two historical events --the American conquest and Zionism-- I just challenge the Zionist spinmeisters into elaborating their dubious historical analogy to its full logic --and inconsistency. Gus