[lbo-talk] Double Standard: Israel and Saudi Arabia

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At 12:17 PM 7/11/2004, Jon Johanning wrote:
>On Jul 10, 2004, at 12:25 PM, Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>I agree.  It would have been fatal to F911 if Moore had broached an 
>>actual controversy instead of sticking to the obvious, e.g., Bush is an 
>>idiot, war is bad, business is greedy.  I mean, how much can the 
>>cognitively impaired American public be expected to absorb?
>It's not just the American public. The state of the debate on 
>Israel/Palestine has deteriorated world-wide, as far as I can see. 99% of 
>the participants in the debate these days are completely polarized, with 
>each side screaming at the other (and doing more than screaming, of 
>course, as the casualties attest). The other 1% is still trying to come up 
>with an actual solution to the problem, but no one can hear them.

I'm listening to the Sunday Simcha on WMNF. It's fund raising time, so more 
chatter than normal. A listener called in to donate and said that he enjoys 
the programming but Amy Goodman is anti-jewish. The people in the studio 
said, "Yeah, a lot of people would agree with you."

???  Is this the supposed "self-hating Jew" thing at work? Because she's 
critical of Israel, she's called a SHJ?

Kelley

"We're in a fucking stagmire."

       --Little Carmine, 'The Sopranos'