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Thread #148368 Message #3446854
Posted By: MGM·Lion
04-Dec-12 - 11:45 AM
Thread Name: BS: Palestine welcomed into the UN fold
Subject: RE: BS: Palestine welcomed into the UN fold
'See above.'
I have seen above, Steve. All I can find 'above' that addresses the question is
'It is that their own people would never countenance an ideologically-driven rout of the Jews'
which is pretty well exactly what you said last time {"the rest of the Arab world would never allow them to become an imperialist regional bully"} in slightly different words. No use, when I ask you to justify an assertion, simply repeating it in a slightly louder voice. You rather remind me of a nice bit I always enjoy in John Gross's excellent history of Lit Crit, 'The Rise And Fall Of The English Man Of Letters', where he refers to F R Leavis's "faintly absurd air of having conclusively demonstrated what has merely been vigorously asserted": precisely what you have done here.
Now, once again ~~ justify the assertion that "the rest of the Arab world would never allow them to become an imperialist regional bully".
Justify it, I say again, rather than simply repeating it in slightly altered form.
~M~