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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2394)	10/14/2002 5:04:29 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 3959

It's not the spray First of all, he rejects the main argument by the opponents of the series and its accusations which held that "everyone suffered" during the years of mass immigration [to Israel] - everyone was sprayed with DDT, everyone lived in transit camps. "It's true that everyone suffered," says Tsur, "but for the Mizrahis, and in particular the Moroccans, in addition to the objective difficulties in their absorption, they were labeled as inferior, simply on the basis of their origins and the country they came from. The unique experience of the Mizrahis and the Moroccans was not the DDT but the humiliation. They and their parents were not given due respect - they were treated as somehow inferior in the local hierarchy." He explains this labeling not as an arrogance unique to Zionism [sic!], but in the context of the general approach that prevailed in the world at the time. "The era of nationalism from which Zionism sprang was also the era of colonialism in the world, and in that era there was a clear hierarchical division between Europeans and non-Europeans, and Israeli society could not avoid this division. These are basic mores of the period." [...] haaretzdaily.com If anything, Israel's "basic mores" die hard.... Gus