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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (14633)	3/17/2007 6:56:51 AM
From: SARMAN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22250

You will love this. They talk about freedom of speech, however you can not say a thing about Jews. That is hypocrisy. Bookshop director orders anti-Semitic book to be removed from shelves By Yossi Lempkowicz Updated: 01/Mar/2007 17:14 PARIS (EJP)--- The director of a bookshop chain in Belgium has given instructions to remove a new version of the anti-Semitic "Protocols of Zion" from the shelves. "I have asked the distributor to recall the title," Alex Williams, director of "Relay - Belgium Press Shops", said in a letter. He was responding to a protest from the Paris office of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre against the distribution of the book. In this novelized version written in French and entitled “Les Protocoles de Sion”, the authors, Patrick Henderick and Patrice de Bruyne, attribute responsibility for 9/11 and the London and Madrid bombings to the Jews who “want to create by violence a new order to dominate the world”. The “Protocols of Zion”, a Tsarist forgery that inspired the Nazi Holocaust, is banned in most European Union member states. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s director for international relations, Dr Shimon Samuels, commended the action, and said: "Your removal of ’Les Protocoles de Sion’ from the sales outlets sets an example for your industry. It sends a message of social responsibility to your clientele and, especially, to young people." Samuels added, "I will henceforth look to your Press Shops network as a model for the creation of "hate-free zones" in Europe." ejpress.org

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (14633)	3/17/2007 9:27:52 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Gus > Israel's right to be racist. Outstanding article which sets out quite clearly what the whole dispute is about -- the right of Israel to impose racist laws in a world which considers racism to be anathema and the right to be anti-democratic in a world where democracy is championed as the only acceptable political solution. Furthermore, for the state of Israel to "exist", crimes of colonialism, particularly ethnic cleansing, have to be decriminalized in the eyes of all concerned. Frankly, as an assimilated, self-hating Jew (by definition), I cannot accept the Zionist argument, compelling as it may be, that Jews need special treatment in this world. Indeed, as a white South African who still lives in South Africa and is prepared to make his home there under black rule, I have heard them all before and also seen the results of this "special pleading" argument which is, if Jews have the right to legally discriminate against others then so does everyone else -- and it doesn't end with religion. Actually, this is the fundamental and existential question which every single person has to decide for himself -- should every definable group be exclusive, and with its own laws, and kept apart from every other group, if necessary in a ghetto, or should we all be free to mix with one another as we please and be treated equally under the laws, both local and international?