[lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn on Ted Honderich

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Fri Aug 15 20:50:37 PDT 2003


Carrol wrote:


> It is bizarre to claim that a state established in the midst of another
people through brutal
> invasion and terror, driving the inhabitants from their lands and their
homes, has any "right" to
> exist.

As I'm sure Carrol knows, many states share similarly ignominious beginnings. Israel's is simply closer in time.


> For practical purposes the world needs (temporarily) to grant it the
> privilege of continued existence, but that is all.

Temporarily? Butters no parsnips to employ such rhetoric, Carrol.

-- Luke



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