zionism

[Brad DeLong]

>Brad DeLong wrote:
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>>>brad, a question: your definition of justice seems to tend to complete
>>>reversal, but does that agree with what most people might call justice?
>>>a few billion dollars are now being paid out as reparations, by the
>>>german govt and corporations, to jewish survivors (and family of those
>>>that died?) of the holocaust. some might call that justice. recently,
>>>tim mcveigh, the person who bombed a federal building in oklahoma city
>>>USA, was put to death, and commentators and victims were heard to say
>>>"justice was served" (this example is a bit more ambiguous, since it
>>>gets into what nietzche called the confusion of justice with revenge).
>>>in these debates, such an understanding of justice might be intended,
>>>when calling out "no justice, no peace". certain events or actions
>>>(such as the sad death of the gypsies, jews, russians, and others in
>>>WW2) and their effects cannot be undone, but justice might be partly
>>>served in undoing those effects that can be undone, dont you think?
>>  Yes--which is why Arafat should have accepted Barak's half-a-loaf offer
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>good, so we do agree that justice can be achieved. the difference on
>what constitutes "justice" remains. 1/2 ;-)
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>	--ravi

I would say that we agree that justice can be "partly served": that 
injustice doesn't have to be total...

Brad DeLong