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: > 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]