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Politics : The Palestinian Hoax -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (262)	6/30/2002 3:15:27 PM
From: chalu2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3467

We're very used to such hyperbole here in NYC. For years, New York's beloved mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, was compared on an almost daily basis to Adolph Hitler. Nazi comparisons are now debased, because they have been used so often they have almost lost meaning. FBI agents are jackbooted thugs, I hear. Israelis commit "genocide" even though their victims' population is increasing at one of the highest rates in the world. Aunt Bea from the old Andy Griffith show was a Nazi because she imposed a curfew on Opie. It just goes on and on. Maybe all of this reflects a failure of our educational system. Lacking historical knowledge, we don't have the tools to make historically apt comparisons. How refreshing would it be to see (even if we do not agree with the sentiments) things like: "Arafat is a modern-day Tamerlane." "Sharon is a murderer, much like Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle." "Zionism reminds me of Italian Irridentism." "Palestinians who preach homicide-as-politics should remember the unforseeable results of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand." Although Barbie (the doll, not Klaus Barbie) once said "history homework is boring", it is essential that we get a better grip on the wide variety of historical analogies that may actually apply to the situations we are discussing.