<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#000080 size=2>don't agree, brian.  not going to go into details of why and how.  other than to say the symbol of the alleged jewish betrayal of "god" is a profound antisemitic symbol that's been used and misused for centuries.  it ranges from judas kissing jesus for the sole purpose that the romans would know who to arrest to the allegations that the jewish sanhedrin caused pilot to crucify "god."  right up to the experiences of nat hentoff getting beaten up almost every day on his way home from school for being a christ killer.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#000080 size=2>very different from the mafia kiss of death, which hasn't a thing to do with a couple thousand years of violent and cruel religious discrimination.  judas kiss is no more friendly than a the mafia kiss of death or a kick in the groin.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#000080 size=2>R</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=siano@mail.med.upenn.edu href="mailto:siano@mail.med.upenn.edu">Brian Siano</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 11, 2003 6:37 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [lbo-talk] Al Gore's Judas Kiss</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>R wrote:<BR><BR>> that's a very good point, shane.  it's the one thing that made me <BR>> quite reluctant to post the article to the LBO group.   the author <BR>> showed very bad taste in choosing that metaphor, and spoiled an <BR>> otherwise good article by doing so.  i apologize for that aspect of <BR>> it.  i wish he hadn't done it.<BR><BR>Uh, I hate to break this to y'all, but the phrase "Judas kiss" has no <BR>implications of anti-semitism. It's a reference to a friendly act which <BR>signals or disguises a betrayal. There's no implication of anti-semitism <BR>in it.<BR><BR>It'd be like saying that a "Michael Corleone kiss" is anti-Italian.<BR><BR>___________________________________<BR><A href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>