Another touch of Chomsky in the night:
"...within that kind of framework, which I hope will be evolving, one can, I think, look forward to an autonomous Kurdistan, which can bring together the Kurds of the region, the tens of millions of Kurds of the region, into a self-governing, autonomous, culturally independent, politically active region, as part of a broader federation of -- one hopes -- friendly and cooperating national and ethnic and cultural groups" -- including Jews (hardly culturally homogeneous) and several varieties of Arabs, I should think. --CGE
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Michael Pollak wrote:
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> On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
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> > In the even shorter run, if Israel is to remain a Jewish state, we should
> > at least think about what kind of Jewish state we want to support.
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> True enough. What kind would you want to support?
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> >From your quote from Chomsky about the EU as a better Ottoman empire,
> can I assume that your preferred solution is pan-arab political
> structure -- an EU of the Middle East -- in which Jewish Israel was a
> small autonomous region?
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> Michael
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