FW: The anti-imperialism of fools

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Wed Jun 19 08:44:22 PDT 2002


At 03:03 PM 6/19/2002 +0000, justin wrote:


>>I think it goes beyond the means. I find the goal of establishing an
>>ethnic/religious state reprehensible. If the Palestinians were
>>struggling for a secular, multi-ethnic, equal opportunity state of Israel
>>(e.g. as the Civil Rights activists did in this country), my sympathies
>>would be different. But an Islamic state or an Arafatesque
>>dictatorship? No, thanks.
>
>The overwhelming majority of Palestinians are opposed to an Islamic state.
>Didn't you read the survey published on this list fairly recently?

I meant to say ethnic or religious (the "/" sign implies the "or" operator but not clearly enough). I oppose the idea of a state defined either by ethnicity (cf. South Africa in the apartheid era, Nazi Germany) or religion (e.g. Islamic or Jewish state) .

wojtek



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