>At 10:11 PM -0500 3/30/03, Michael Pollak quoted Ellen Willis:
>>Rather, Islamist passion for Israel's obliteration has at its core
>>revulsion at the perceived contamination of the holy land by an
>>infidel nation; worse, a modern democracy; even worse, one
>>populated by that quintessentially alien, bloodsucking tribe of
>>rootless cosmopolitans, the Jews.
>
>I suspect that Willis means to say we are missing the "psycho-sexual."
That kind of psychosexual we can do without. It's an appalling way to claim the high moral ground for Israel, as the defender of Enlightenment values, opposed by deluded anti-Semitic Palestinians sick with sexual repression. Sabra & Shatila and bulldozing houses disappear.
Doug