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Thread #71709   Message #1230981
Posted By: CarolC
21-Jul-04 - 08:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mideast: View From the Eye of the Storm
Subject: RE: BS: Mideast: View From the Eye of the Storm
Bill H, do you have any shades of gray when it comes to people promoting lies such as "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", or Holocaust denial? I tend to doubt it. The reason the promotion of these kinds of lies should not be tolerated is because they cause the oppression and the deaths of innocent people (mostly Jews). There should be no shade of gray about the fact that it is wrong to spread these kinds of vicious lies.

It's no different when people promote lies that cause the oppression and deaths of innocent people who are not Jewish. The historical narrative that you have been taught to you and most of the rest of us here in the US and in Israel about the history of the Middle East conflict is fiction (not unlike the American historical narrative that justifies atrocities committed against Native Americans and Blacks). It is not true. And this fiction is being used as justification for the oppression and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and the killing of innocent people.

We're all human beings, Bill. None of us is any more exalted than any of the rest of us. Telling lies (bearing false witness) in order to promote an agenda that harms people is wrong, whether it is the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, or the lies that you have been taught about the Palestinians.