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To: Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy
In fact, this use of religious myth by early Judaism (during the post-Babylonian "exile") is not unlike how the myths of Zionism are now used to delegitimize and demonize the Muslim and Christian Palestinians who have been living in Palestine/Israel for thousands of years, and whose ancestors are the very same ancient Israelites who were shunned and condemned by the "returning" Jewish "exiles" from Babylon.

I just can't work up a lot of sympathy for the Palestinians these days, especially after seeing the reaction in Nablus and elsewhere to 911. It left a coldness inside.

174 posted on 11/27/2002 5:23:05 PM PST by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro
I just can't work up a lot of sympathy for the Palestinians these days, especially after seeing the reaction in Nablus and elsewhere to 911. It left a coldness inside.

Your reaction was formed through exposure 24/7 to our controlled news media. It is an entirely one sided version of events.

One would think that American Christians would show a little sympathy to their Christian brothers and sisters in Israel/Palestine, but apparently not. "Judeo-Christian" Zionism trumps everything.

Also our tax dollars are going to fund and arm the state which is raining bombs, guided missiles, and bullets on women and children, and justifying it in the name of these religious myths. Small wonder if these Palestinians don't care for us.

Be that as it may, it would not matter to me who was killing who, or what demonic purposes these religious myths were being put to, if I was not being forced to support these myths with my tax dollars, and if these myths were not being used to drag us into an inevitable series of wars for an empire which the American people do not want to have, paid for with the lives of their sons.

It just isn't something you should want, even if you despise every Palestian that ever drew breath.

177 posted on 11/27/2002 5:32:26 PM PST by Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy
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