> This has not much relevance to Hezbollah, Lebanon, and
> the current conflict, but someone earlier scoffed at
> the idea that Hamas could be described as
> anti-semitic, so I am positing this:
>
> "Article Twenty-Two: The Powers which Support the
> Enemy
Just curious: in what way do you interpret this has being anti-semitic? Rather than denigrating Jews the way, say, many earlier Americans denigrated Native Americans, this text attributes preternatural power and influence to Jews. It is ludicrous of course, and reminds me of the kind of overheated rhetoric from the Cold War period, but it doesn't by definition discount the validity of the group's aspirations as voiced elsewhere in that document, as much as one might disagree with them privately.
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Colin Brace
Amsterdam