<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: [lbo-talk] A Calculated Provocation</title></head><body> <div>MOTECK1457@aol.com wrote:</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite>In a message dated 4/8/2004 11:13:44 AM Eastern Standard Time, dhenwood@panix.com writes:<br> <blockquote><br></blockquote> <blockquote><font face="Arial">But "Death to Jews!" and not "End Israeli state terror!" isn't ok by me.</font></blockquote> <blockquote><font face="Arial"><br></font></blockquote> <blockquote><font face="Arial">Doug</font><br> </blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#010101">Doug - I wonder what you would think of a slogan that said:</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#010101">"End Israeli State Terror and Palestinian Suicide Bombings!"</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#010101">("and" is such a useful word for supplying context and connections!)</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>I don't like suicide bombings; they're immoral and ineffective. But: 1) Israel is the oppressor in the relationship; 2) they're doing their oppression with U.S. money and weapons; and 3) the Palestinians' resort to suicide bombing is a symptom of the absolute desperation of their situation (and if you believe otherwise, you have to believe in some primary barbarity of Palestinians that exists prior to political or social circumstances). So if the "and" in this case is supposed to imply a moral equivalence, I don't like the slogan.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Doug</div> </body> </html>