Anti-Semitism

[Greg Schofield]

Brad I think there is a rather bizzare misunderstanding about the word "natural" here - try substituting it with "expected" or even "not unexpected" if you prefer double negatives - the sense will be preserved but there is no hint of justification (something can be expected without implying that it should happen which seems to be what you are reading into the plain English word "natural").

By the way S11 did lead to a not unexpected assualt on stray people who looked middle eastern right across America and I knopw of several cases in Australia. I don't think any of the 20,000 famliy members of the victims were involved but I woundn't be a bit surprised if a few were.

It was a pity that political leaders while making so much hay out of S11 did not do more to prevent such an expected out burst of mis-directed anger (in Australia the PM specifically protected US and jewish property and remained silent on musilm property which would "naturally" also be under threat - no US or jewish property was touched but a Mosque was burned down and several others predicatably attacked).

Brad you misreading is rather forced and I wish you would leave it alone.

--- Message Received ---
From: Bradford DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:09:01 -0800
Subject: Re: Anti-Semitism


>Yes, Fisk said as much after he was beaten.  He also told Amy Goodman
>about being threatened in Lebanon after meeting with a US intelligence
>agent.
>
>On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 04:59:32PM -0800, Brad DeLong wrote:
>>
>>  So it's natural to kill Daniel Pearl because of Israeli policies
>>  toward the occupied territories, just as (in Robert Fisk's opinion at
>>  least) it's natural to try to kill Robert Fisk because of U.S.
>>  policies toward Afghanistan?
>>
>>
>  > Brad DeLong

And I suppose it was natural for the 20,000 relatives of the WTC 
victims to have fanned out across New York City the night of 
September 11, finding any vaguely Middle-Eastern people they found 
and beating and killing them?

Clearly we Americans have a lot to re-learn from the British left and 
the Pakistani right about how to conduct a pogrom...

Brad DeLong

Greg Schofield
Perth Australia
g_schofield at dingoblue.net.au
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