zionism (again)

C. G. Estabrook galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Sun Jul 29 09:15:56 PDT 2001


On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Max Sawicky wrote:


> ...But mainly the Zionism as racial identity is an inversion of the
> correct understanding of Nazism as race-identity. It likens zionism
> to nazism. This is the international left's version of a political
> blood libel against Jews. As bad as Israel policy has ever been, it
> has never posed the same threat or caused as much harm to Arabs as
> Nazism did to Jews. It is lousy history and politics to suggest
> otherwise. The internationalism of fools, if you will.

"Not as bad as the Nazis" is not much of a defense of Israel. What would we have said of someone who defended the Nazis by saying that they're not as bad as Genghis Kahn? --CGE



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