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To: Sdgla who wrote (300631)	8/18/2006 2:14:36 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579762

That paper is a load of pro-Zionist propoganda from the biggest loser of all, the addicted gambler who insists on telling us all how we should live "moral" lives, William Bennett! LOL! The Bookie of Virtue William J. Bennett has made millions lecturing people on morality--and blown it on gambling. washingtonmonthly.com STILL no list of the steps by which the Arabs will "destroy" Israel. Are you able to think independently at all?

To: Sdgla who wrote (300631)	8/18/2006 4:56:10 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1579762

If Jews are the canaries in the coalmine of how a civilization, state, or country will treat religious or ethnic minorities, what is Israel -the only democratic state in the Middle East, and the only Jewish state in the world? See....this is why I don't read stuff from the right. Already Bennett has established two things that may or may not be true. First of all, do we need "a canary in a coal mine" to tell us how we treat minorities? A canary was used in coal mines to detect poisonous gases that were odorless but dangerous to humans. When it comes to discrimination, we know what it is, we know when it happens and we have laws to protect us should discrimination occur. I don't think a "canary" would serve any useful purpose. Secondly, even if we needed a "canary in.......mine", would Jews be the canary? I doubt it. Most Jews in this country are very much ensconced in the middle and upper classes and rarely have any of their rights abridged. A more appropriate "canary" might be blacks or Arabs. That's assuming we need a "canary" in the first place. >For several years now, I have been asking the question: Will our culture and the international community allow us to fight the war we need to fight to prevail? An interim answer to that question is now playing out for Israel, our international canary in the darkest of mines. And now Bennett builds on his questionable premise and makes the state of Israel a "canary". Sorry, I don't need an international canary of any kind.