no trouble empathizing with israelis

[lweiger at umich.edu]

Funny that you cite the 10:1 casualty rate (which, I agree, is atrocious). 
It was the disproportionality of this attack which makes it so very wrong.

-- Luke

--On Thursday, September 13, 2001 8:04 AM -0500 "j.f. noonan" 
<jfn1 at msc.com> wrote:


> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 at 4:36pm Nathan Newman wrote:
>
> > no trouble empathizing with israelisAnd the attempts to pick
> > out anything to denigrate people's suffering goes on...
>
> What incredible horseshit, even for you.  If I have heard this
> line "now I have some idea what the Israelis go through" once in
> the last two days, I've heard it a thousand times.   I never
> hear "now I know how the Palestinians must feel" even though
> they take casualties at a 10:1 rate and regularly have their
> homes and orchards bulldozed.
>
>
> --
>
> Joseph Noonan
> jfn1 at msc.com
>