[lbo-talk] Randian explains all

George Scialabba scialabb at fas.harvard.edu
Tue Jul 18 13:03:47 PDT 2006



>Israel ... is as justified in
>killing Palestinian civilians as the US was in killing German and
>Japanese civilians in WWII.

Surely both sides can agree on this.

At 03:45 PM 7/18/2006, you wrote:
>From: "David Holcberg" <DHolcberg at aynrand.org>
>Date: July 18, 2006 2:52:48 PM EDT
>To: <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Subject: RE: Israel Should Wage War on the Palestinians
>
>We hold that government should be limited to protecting individual
>rights--which includes the use of the military against foreign threats.
>
>Israel--as the victim of terrorist aggression--is as justified in
>killing Palestinian civilians as the US was in killing German and
>Japanese civilians in WWII.
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Doug Henwood [mailto:dhenwood at panix.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 11:45 AM
>To: Media
>Subject: Re: Israel Should Wage War on the Palestinians
>
>
>On Jul 18, 2006, at 7:00 AM, Ayn Rand Institute Press Release wrote:
>
> > The inevitable deaths of a few truly innocent Palestinians should not
> > stop Israel from doing whatever it takes to eliminate its enemies;
>any
> > deaths of innocents would be the moral responsibility not of Israel
> > but of the guilty majority of Palestinians who seek to destroy it.
>
>Man, that's really repulsive. I've always thought that Nazi-Zionist
>analogies were bullshit, but just how is this different from the
>logic of the Wehrmacht imposing collective punishment? And it would
>be nice if you could pause in one of these bloodthirsty missives to
>explain how you're for limited government except when it comes to the
>state dealing out mass death to supposed "enemies."
>
>
>
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