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To: FarRightTexasDude; Alouette
Being anti-Semitic and anti-Israel are two different positions.

Not inherently; not by definition.

More often, nowadays: "anti-Israel" serves as a handy fig rhetorical fig leaf -- a nudge-nudge, wink-wink code phrase recognized and understood from one user to the next, like (oh, say) "neocon," for instance.

Alouette is -- as usual -- spot-on in her analysis of the topic at hand.

5 posted on 11/06/2004 11:00:08 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

There have always been plenty of anti-Zionist Jews. They basically hold that "Israel" exists wherever Jews meet, and that Jews should stop dwelling on the physical location in the Middle East.

I tend to agree with them on principle, but after 9/11 it's no longer relevant anyway. Now, as a result of the Arabs' sponsorship of global terrorism in lieu of diplomacy, they should be forced to accept the State of Israel for *eternity*, just as an object lesson, and regardless of any argument over the merits of Zionism one way or the other.


6 posted on 11/07/2004 1:07:39 AM PST by fire_eye (Socialism is the opiate of academia.)
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