On May 8, 2006, at 11:40 AM, B. wrote:
> I bought Arabs and Israel For Beginners (you know, the
> embarrassing "Witters and Readers" series no "serious"
> leftist will admit they've bought) several years ago,
> after over a decade or so of reading Chomsky and
> Finkelstein and Hermen, et al. I'm not sure how much
> more nuanced and intricate one could expect one's
> interpretation of Mid East events to be, after at
> least a decade of reading that sort of thing.
>
> And also, Joel, you're probably one of the few people
> on the list that could ever in their lives appreciate
> the fact I saw Holy Mountain play with World Burns to
> Death on Saturday night here in TX, and had World
> Burns to death (WB2D) crash at my apartment, even if
> my (over-priced) subscription is with MRR and not P.P.
> =) har har
>
> Cheers,
>
> -B.
>
>
> Joel Scahlit wrote:
>
> "The real source of the problem you're getting at here
> - and which I agree about - is the fact that the Left
> needs to better educate itself about both Islam and
> Arab culture in general. This is a general American
> problem that afflicts the entirety of domestic
> progressive culture, including Jewish progressives.
> That is how I would put it."
>
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