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To: michael97123 who wrote (152378)	11/23/2004 11:05:27 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

>> Were you worried that the PC crowd would think less of you because they would assume you to be a racist? Seems like you have answered yourself. I could not have cared less about being politically correct. Never have, never will. >> NYC Jews are no better or worse than any others. Nope. There is good and bad everywhere, but you should note that I am very particular about the words I use. I did not say NYC Jews are better. I said the ones who have been raised in the greater NYC tend to be more humanitarian. So the big chunk of the NYC Jews who moved in to NYC for business don't fall into this crowd. >> You like them because they agree with your assumptions on Israel. Oh duh! We all like people who agree with our view of the world. This is how one defines "good" subjectively. >> if true, is more about protecting them from terrorist attack if they moved to israel Survey says...BEEP! It has nothing to do with that and everything to do with Israelis being the opposite of who my friends are, TOLERANT. For example, one of them was telling me about an Israeli teenage boy who stabbed to death her older sister (who had spent 2 years in US) because she was taking sun baths in bikini on the roof top and was a cause of embarrassment to him in the neighborhood. What you don't seem to understand is that a society cannot live in a state of constant hostility and without its people becoming hostile. Hostile people do not make for good spouses. Incidentally, a Jewish girlfriend of mine was married to an Israeli man for a few years. She had an interesting perspective on the effects of Israel's "foreign" policies on the internal development of Israeli society at large. She had Israeli friends from 3 different generations and could see the trend in their attitudes across generations. You know a lot less about them than you think you know. Being a Jew does not bestow you with a genetic memory and deep insight into what goes on in Israel.