on 10/7/00 4:40 PM, David Horowitz at Dhorowitz@earthlink.net wrote: > When you attack a holy site on a holy day and illegally claim it to be > yours, as the Palestinians did, there are no innocents. > This is a very troubling post. "There are no innocents." Where have we heard that before? David Horowitz seems to be calling for total war, kill all the savages: all too familiar a cry in American history. But I would hate to see us exporting once again our notion of American exceptionalism, redemption-through-violence and offering it wholesale to a client state (whose claim to the moral high ground is sufficiently shrill as it is). Reprehensible rhetoric. The situation in the Near East is complex and it is a tinder-box. It needs neither Horowitz's black-and-white, reductionist moral perspective, nor his lucifer-match. One of these days David Horowitz is going to spontaneously combust like Detective Bucket in Dickens' Bleak House. Randy Fertel
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