Most of y'all will recognize that, not surprisingly, the Pound list
has become the refuge and vomitorium of the Jew-hating dregs
of academia.
==Dan
At 08:04 AM 03/20/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Don't worry, Dan, the cure for all our liberal doubts is just around the
>corner. We're about to get "10", yes, "10" weeks of old Yiddish "sti(u:)k"
>theatre recordings on NPR. OI! So I'm never goingk to laugh zo hard in all
>my life?
>
>----------
> >From: Daniel Pearlman <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: internet petition
> >Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2002, 11:29 PM
> >
>
> > Carroll and Sarab make very nice twins, don't they?
> > Each equally objective and balanced in their totally
> > unbiased readings of history?
> > ==Dan
> >
> > At 10:00 PM 03/19/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> >>Sarab Nihal Singh wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I would prefer to go to the root cause of this chronic problem
> mentioned in
> >> > Bob's email and sign a petition against Prophet Mohamed for his war
> crimes
> >> > against humanity. He has caused the most ideological and ethnic
> >> cleansing in
> >> > known history. The psychotic freaks (Aurangzeb, Ghazni, et al) in his
> >> > tradition have done worst damage than Israel or US can do in all of
> Islam's
> >> > pathetic, enslaved and oppressive colonies.
> >> >
> >>
> >>I did not respond to Bob's email because at least once before on this
> >>list he has confused Jews witrh Zionists -- and that is unacceptable for
> >>several reasons. First, though of secondary concern, is that a group of
> >>Pound lovers (which I assume most of us are) should be quite careful
> >>around the subject of anti-semitism But of greater, and more politically
> >>relevant concern, is that the chief, perhaps the _only_ serious weapon
> >>in the hands of criminal Zionism (the phrase is really, now, redundant)
> >>is precisely the identification of anti-zionism with anti-semitism.
> >>Without this protection, Israel would stand revealed clearly to all for
> >>what it is and has been -- a criminal state, an ally of tyrannical and
> >>racist regimes around the world (e.g., it was, next to the United
> >>States, the warmest friend of apartheid South Africa, and it was the
> >>conduit for a good deal of U.S. aid to the murderous thugs known as
> >>Contras in Nicaragua).
> >>
> >>Israel's very existence is a crime, and the bloodshed now going on in
> >>Palestine is _wholly_ the fault of the Israeli state. Israeli terrorism
> >>(the state was born in terrorism and has been a perpetrator of terrorism
> >>fever since) is not the only but it is a major element in the conditions
> >>that have given Al Quaida terrorists the popular support (or illusion of
> >>popular support) that any terrorist organization needs, to maintain its
> >>morale if for no other reason: men who could have relatively peaceful
> >>and prosperous lives do not lightly throw away those lives as did the
> >>perpetrators of 9/11.
> >>
> >>As for Islam and Muhamed. The post I am responding to is ridiculous, but
> >>I'll just focus on a couple of points here.
> >>
> >>First of all, one might say that Islam was virtually the inventor of
> >>religious tolerance, and for a thousand years while Jews were being
> >>persecuted in Europe the Islamic countries provided a place of refuge
> >>not only for Jews but for "hetetical" Christians. Most of whatever
> >>culture medieval Europe possessed they owed to the Arabs and Islamic
> >>culture. (Arabic numbers came from India, but it was the Arabs who
> >>introduced them to europe.)
> >>
> >>Secondly, for 50 years the United States has pursued an unrelenting
> >>savagery (often using "fundamentalist Muslims as its tool) against every
> >>democratic or secular movement in the Middle East and South Asia. It was
> >>the U.S. that destroyed Iran's best hope for democracy, Mossedegh. It
> >>was the U.S., under Carter, that deliberately interfered in Afghanistan
> >>for no other reason that to provoke Soviet interference, and it was the
> >>U.S. that was responsible for the virtual wiping out of all secular or
> >>democratic forces in Afghanistan.
> >>
> >>And it is the U.S. and Israel that have been the unrelenting foes of any
> >>secular left forces among the Palestinians and have deliberately and
> >>with consciously bloody intent encouraged the flourishing of religious
> >>fanaticism among the Palestinians.
> >>
> >>Freedom for the Palestinians will not by itself bring peace to the
> >>middle east, but nothing else will either until the rogue state of
> >>Israel is brought under control.
> >>
> >>Carrol Cox
> >
> > Dan Pearlman's home page:
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> >
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> >
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Dan Pearlman's home page:
http://pages.zdnet.com/danpearl/danpearlman/
My new fiction collection, THE BEST-KNOWN MAN IN THE WORLD AND OTHER
MISFITS, may be ordered online at http://www.aardwolfpress.com/
"Perfectly-crafted gems": Jack Dann, Nebula & World Fantasy Award winner
Director, Council for the Literature of the Fantastic:
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/english/clf/
OFFICE:
Department of English
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881
Tel.: 401 874-4659
Fax: (253) 681-8518
email: [log in to unmask]
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