Fwd: Re: Conference on Racism:Jewish Caucus Statement

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Sep 7 09:55:27 PDT 2001


[Leo, please direct these at the list, not me!]


>X-From_: LeoCasey at aol.com Fri Sep 7 12:13:54 2001
>From: LeoCasey at aol.com
>Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 12:13:18 EDT
>Subject: Re: Conference on Racism:Jewish Caucus Statement
>To: lbo-talk-digest <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com>
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>Matthew:
>
>>Max, sincere question: what other states are made up of a population
>>brought from somewhere else after 1900 (or 1945 for that matter) to an
>>area already populated by other peoples...
>
>And what makes 1900, or 1945, the relevant line of demarcation? Could it be
>that it provides a convenient point of demarcating Israel from the host of
>other settler states that surround the globe, from Australia and New
>Zealand to Canada and the US, from Cuba and Jamaica to Chile and Argentina?
>A cover for what is a singling out of the one nation state which is Jewish?
>
>Leo Casey
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>Power concedes nothing without a demand.
>It never has, and it never will.
>If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
>Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who
>want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and
>lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
>-- Frederick Douglass --
>
>.



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