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To: LindyBill who wrote (19460)	12/11/2003 3:29:09 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793649

It won't surprise you to learn that this exercise in sneering contempt for Zionism, most inadequately challenged by the interviewer, made me see red. My comment to FrontPageMagazine: And, if Palestine actually had been uninhabited, I would still have said that Jews have no business seeking Messianic or Biblical ghettoes. What, the Jews should have remained in the safety of Europe? Then Hitler could have killed seven million instead of six, and Hitchens wouldn't have the problem of Israel to sneer at today. Once again, I am struck by how the anti-Zionists talk as if, alone among all the massive population movements and wars and expropriations of the twentieth century, only the creation of Israel was morally reprehensible. Now by any objective count of the intentions of actors, the danger they were in, the options available to them, and their attempts at compromise, the Zionists were far less ruthless, far more aware of the rights of other people, and far more open to compromise than many, many other nationalist movements one could name. Take the Turks just for one example, and ask the Greeks and Armenians how the Turks implemented their national program. But only Israel is morally reprehensible, because morality is only to be expected from the Jews. Certainly never from the Arabs. A very high standard of morality, too, one set high enough to ensure that whatever measure of self-determination or nationalism may be seen as a human right (pity the interviewer didn't think to ask Hitchens if he considered nationalism "ghettoes" for other nations), the Jews never get any, because they mustn't impinge on any other people. They should have just walked quietly into the gas chambers instead.