Too simple (Was Re: Radio Doug)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>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

It's not as though "psycho-sexual" explanations would be OK if they 
were used to criticize Israel, the United States, etc.
-- 
Yoshie

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