--- Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I don't know what the "reds unter the bed" theory
> is.
> I'm not really sure what you're saying in this
> paragraphic.
Bill's refering to the McCarthy-era witch hunt of communists, in which Evil Red Commies were supposedly secretly controlling everything.
Do you mean that the Hamas charta is
> not
> anti-semitic? Have you read it? There are some
> explicit references to anti-semitic conspiracy
> theories.
>
While I think your obsession with anti-Semitism is wrong, wrong, wrong, I do also think that a lot of it exists in the Muslim world. Don't know about Hamas. (And, yes, there whether someone in New York or someone in Beirut believes in blood libel or grand Jewish plots to rule the world, it is still anti-Semitism and still crazy.)
>As for current Israeli practice in Gaza and the West
>Bank, no question, it's brutal and horrible. But I
>think when people use the term "genocide," it's meant
>merely to exploit the resonance of the fact that the
>perpretrators of injustice in this case are Jews.
No, it's because EVERY conflict in which large numbers of civilians die is called "genocide" nowadays. Sudan, Viet-Nam, Kosovo, Israel-Palestine, Chechnya, everything. It has little to do with the Israelis being Jewish. It is an emotive term (WAR BAD!) with little descriptive value.
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