The Mudcat Café TM
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.

Frank