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Thread #67315 Message #1130029
Posted By: Frankham
05-Mar-04 - 04:41 PM
Thread Name: BS: Anti-Semitism & The Left
Subject: RE: BS: Anti-Semitism & The Left
There are a lot of historical "facts" being displayed. The idea that the Left is somehow anti-Semitic is laughable. The Leftr has never been able to agree on anything including who was involved in Bolshevism.
This is true with Jewish folks as well. There's an old saying, whenever you have two Jews in the same room, there are twelve different opinions. I respect the willingness of Jews to analyze and argue different positions. I think that this is healthy and there are no monolithic Jews that represent how they think. No one Jew can claim to represent his country or administration policies as there is no American that can claim to be more American than any other citizen.
George Wills is an enemy poser. He lumps all Lefties into one category.
Here's what I think is going on. There is a Jewish reaction and a Palestinian reaction and each can claim a litany of historical facts to support their adversarial positions. This doesn't help solve their problems.
In Israel, Palestinians are dehumanized. Amoung Palestinians, Israelis are dehumanized. This solves nothing.
The solution is for each side to stop reacting and become proactive in solving the problems by listening carefully to one another. A real attempt must be made to understand fully the contentions made by each side. This has not been done. It's as if each entrenched side has purposely put on ear plugs to the opposite point of view.
Name-calling and scapegoating by saying that all Lefties or Righties are anti-Semitic just muddies the waters. And it's not true.