Re: New jackboots walk the earth

Thanks, Niel.  Saved me the effort!

mbz

> From: "Niel M. Bornstein" <niel-eVhvBAtfTHk423YV9hPXO9/[email protected]>
> Reply-To: bonobos-4GNy1lrxftmrG/[email protected]
> Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 07:06:24 -0500 (CDT)
> To: Jim Laws <[email protected]>
> Cc: <bonobos-4GNy1lrxftmrG/[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Bonobos] New jackboots walk the earth
> 
> On Fri, 3 May 2002, Jim Laws wrote:
>> I was brought up in an area where the Jewish faith was dominate, I liked and
>> respected them... now I find they are arrogant bullies only too willing to
>> crush others under their newly required jackboots.
> 
> I think it's important to make a distinction between Jews and Israelis,
> and even then between differences of opinion between different Israelis.
> Just as we don't necessarily approve of the actions our own government
> takes and yet call ourselves Americans, there are some Israelis -- indeed,
> some would say the majority! -- who do not approve of their government's
> actions.
> 
> As a Jew, albeit a non-observant one, I could very easily take offense at
> your implication that I am by definition a "jackbooted thug".  I do not
> support Israel in any sense, yet your hasty generalization brands me as a
> cowardly, murderous, arrogant bully.
> 
> Niel
> 
> 
> 
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