[lbo-talk] RE: Calculated provocation

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Marion:
>>>Joanna - Your response is, to say the least, shortsighted,
ahistorical, and simplistic.  Jews bombed in their synagogues in
Istanbul are every bit as bombed as Iraqis bombed in Iraq.  Daniel Pearl
is every bit as murdered as any other murder victim. Israeli children
murdered by suicide bombers are every bit as dead as Iraqi children
bombed by American bombs in the name of Bush's horrific war based on
lies.<<<

WS:
I think you are a bit harsh to Joanna - I do not think she intended to
minimize human suffering of Jews, but to raise a quite valid in my
opinion point that in Western consciousness white and educated victims
seem to deserve more compassion than dark skinned peasants slaughtered
in the remote parts of the Third World in the name of "progress and
democracy."  

Wojtek