So Israel is a racist state, and racist principles are integral to its legal existence (the Law of Return, "the State of the Jewish people world-wide"), but the state is not "founded on a racial identity." Right. As Fitzgerald said, "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." --CGE
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Max Sawicky wrote:
> . . . We'd agree that the laws were anti-Semitic; I'd certainly call
> them racist. But you wouldn't say that that legal structure was
> "founded on a racial identity"? . . .
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> mbs: Nope. If an African, Asian, and European are all braying that
> I'm a hebe bastard, they are being bigoted w/o benefit of a common
> racial identity.
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> . . . That sounds like playing with words to me.
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> (And those are of course provisions that apply to Palestinians within
> the Green Line.) --CGE
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> mbs: no shit.
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