Israel's right to exist

[joanna bujes]

At 01:48 PM 09/19/2002 -0400, Marc wrote:
>In all honesty I do not believe Israel has a right to exist.  Did rhodesia 
>have
>a right to exist?  "Portuguese" Angola?  apartheid south africa?  why is 
>it that
>israel is given such leeway in this matter?  is it the whole "religious 
>justification?"
>  western guilt over the holocaust?

I don't think there's any such thing as western guilt -- and anyway how do 
you absolve guilt by making the Palestinians pay the price? Nonesense.

I think it was and is the thin end of the wedge for Imperialism in the 
Middle East...

I agree with everything you said in your post, by the way.

Cheers,

Joanna