<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: no trouble empathizing with israelis</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> this is not about denigrating people's suffering. it's about quite the opposite. this argument started because brad (iirc) couldn't understand the anger and suffering that would cause anyone to celebrate what happened yesterday. i think you both, perhaps along with andrew sullivan, mistake an attempt to understand that celebration for the celebration itself. i am not celebrating. unlike mr sullivan, i am not denigrating or discounting *anyone's* suffering. what i am doing is worrying what will come of this, what will come of the media replaying that same footage of celebrations and the hatred, denigration, and sheer destruction it is being deployed to inspire. <BLOCKQUOTE> From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan@newman.org> Reply-To: lbo-talk@lists.panix.com Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:36:08 -0400 To: <lbo-talk@lists.panix.com> Subject: Re: no trouble empathizing with israelis </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE>And the attempts to pick out anything to denigrate people's suffering goes on... Nathan nathan@newman.org http://www.nathannewman.org <BLOCKQUOTE>----- Original Message ----- From: Jeffrey Fisher <mailto:jfisher@igc.org>   To: LBO Talk <mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com>   Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 3:58 PM Subject: no trouble empathizing with israelis "People gathered in small groups next to cars whose radios were switched on. In the elevator on the way up to an office, a man said, 'Now I know what Israelis feel like.'" http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/09/12/News/News.34641.html </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>