I am sorry if Carroll Cox or others here may find, in my hesitance to believe that only Israelis were responsible for beginning the current violence, and my insistence on a distinction between Israeli people and various portions of the Israeli government, an unawareness of the racism in Zionism. To the contrary. Actually, my position on this is close to that of the Women in Black, who, I am happy to say, had--and received good local coverage for--a fine rally at the Israel Bonds office in S.F. this evening (as for my general position of the issue, cf. my article in a late-Oct. or early-Nov. 1973 issue of the Berkeley Barb, which ended with a line something like "I would be out there between both the lines, I guess, shouting 'YOU are not each other's enemies!' ... " ) Part of my point in that article was there is indeed an anti-semitism toward both Jews and Arabs that gets expressed in--it was in the television anchors' resigned-shrug-delivery of "Violence broke out again today between..."--the general US (and European) culture. But of course it's not just anti-semitism. It's the same "south of the Rio Grande" "little brown ones" "yellow menace" etc. of My Lai--and of Hiroshima, Wounded Knee, Auschwitz, and the rest. --So if I seem a bit insistent that these persons are people, guys, this is why. Paula
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