[lbo-talk] IDF used human shields

[Dennis Perrin]

> Many years ago in Ann Arbor I attended a talk by
> Edward Said, in which his refrain, and main theme, was
> the apparently mild but evidently radical proposition
> that Palestinians _are_ human (and not "drugged
> cockroaches in a bottle," in the lovely and humane
> expression of Golda Meier).

Actually, it was IDF officer Rafael Eitan who used the "drugged cockroaches" 
line. Meir merely said that the Palestinians did not exist as a people, and 
those who insisted that they did had disordered minds.

Dennis