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billbartlett at dodo.com.au billbartlett at dodo.com.au
Fri Jan 24 09:57:30 PST 2003


A reading list is not a counter-argument. Clearly a regime fanatically devoted to the creation of an ethnically pure state in an area where diverse ethnic groups have lived for thousands of years, is inherently genocidal.

Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas

At 9:05 AM -0500 23/1/03, Dennis Perrin wrote:


> > Of course its genocide. get real.
>>
>> Bill Bartlett
>> Bracknell Tas
>
>
>Well, defenders of Greater Israel would disagree (esp those who wouldn't
>mind a form of genocide or ethnic cleansing) as they point to the growing
>birthrates among Palestinians. Here's an alarm from Yale Prof Paul Kennedy
>in the Chi Trib:
>
>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/showcase/chi-020407maelstrom3.story
>
>And a related piece from a Middle East writer for Salon:
>
>http://www.dutch.org/weblog/the_ticking_palestinian_bomb_that_israel_cant_de
>fuse.txt
>
>And the thought of being outnumbered has pushed some former Israeli officers
>to advocate massive ethnic cleansing:
>
>http://www.pna.gov.ps/New/cleansing.html
>
>So not only are Palestinians growing in number, they are pursuing higher
>education:
>
>http://www.palestine-net.com/education/
>
>And there is debate and concern about academic freedom in Palestinian
>schools:
>
>http://www.phrmg.org/monitor2000/mar2000-academic.htm
>
>Plus, the voting bloc of Israeli Arabs, including Arab candidates for the
>Knesset, should be considered:
>
>http://www.peacenow.org/nia/briefs/QA011303.html
>
>So, while the occupation is indeed brutal and criminal (and we can go into
>any aspect of that, from the apartheid-like laws in the territories to the
>use of water as a weapon), I don't think, after reading the above, that
>"genocide" is the right word to describe what's going on. But you are free
>to call it anything you like.
>
>DP



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