Re: [sixties-l] 3500 Protest in San Francisco

From: David Horowitz (Dhorowitz@earthlink.net)
Date: 10/09/00

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    Hugs to you too, Rita. Did it ever occur to you that 80% of Jordan is
    Palestinian and that if this was about a Palestinian homeland, Jordan
    would be it?
    
    Rita Beigh wrote:
    
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    >
    > Translation:
    >
    > What DH said:  It's not really complex.
    > What DH meant: You are stupid...
    >
    > What DH said:  The Palestinians have been waging a holy war against
    > Israel for decades.
    > What DH meant: It all started when they hit us back.
    >
    > What DH said:  Not once have they accepted Israel's right to exist,
    > What DH meant: They have never accepted the "wisdom" of being booted
    > out of their homeland as an apology to the Jewish people for the
    > holocaust.
    >
    > What DH said:  ...not once during the entire peace process (and of
    > course before) have they renounced violence.
    > What DH meant: Never have they refused to shoot back. DUHHHHHH!
    >
    > What DH said:  Rocks are deadly, and the Palestinian violence that
    > provoked the Israeli response was clearly designed to assert
    > sovereignty over territory that is now Israel's.
    >
    > What DH meant: Might makes right! If you are Palestinian, you have no
    > rights.
    >
    > What DH said:  Only the feeble minded don't see that this is a
    > declaration of war and an act of aggression.
    > What DH meant: You are all too stupid to see the righteousness of
    > Zionist oppression.
    >
    > What I say:
    >
    >         Zionism is just another form of fascism. It takes two to make
    > a battle. Laying blame on one party solely is less than wise, David.
    > You are, by your own declaration, far too intelligent to miss that
    > small and insignificant point.
    >
    > Hugs to you, David!
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-sixties-l@lists.village.virginia.edu
    > [mailto:owner-sixties-l@lists.village.virginia.edu]On Behalf Of David
    > Horowitz
    >
    > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 5:52 AM
    > To: sixties-l@lists.village.virginia.edu
    > Subject: Re: [sixties-l] 3500 Protest in San Francisco
    >
    > It's not really complex. The Palestinians have been waging a holy war
    > against Israel for decades. Not once have they accepted Israel's right
    > to exist, not once during the entire peace process (and of course
    > before) have they renounced violence. Rocks are deadly, and the
    > Palestinian violence that provoked the Israeli response was clearly
    > designed to assert sovereignty over territory that is now Israel's.
    > Only the feeble minded don't see that this is a declaration of war and
    > an act of aggression.
    >
    > Randy Fertel wrote:
    > 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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