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Re: But not a drop to drink.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
In the desert these pipes are the equivalent of the reservoir. None of you have any sense of responsibility and protecting one's family from people that want to wipe them out-
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Peter Beinert:
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One of the most depressing things about discussing Israel in the American Jewish community is the blindly tribal way in which some Americans Jews talk about “them.” “They hate us; they don’t want peace; they teach their children to kill; they don’t think like we do.” Sometimes it’s not even clear who the “they” is: 11 million Palestinians, 300 million Arabs, 1.5 billion Muslims, all of the above? It’s a rhetoric of dehumanization, practiced by people who lack the empathy or historical memory to see parallels between the way we talk about “them” and the way anti-Semites have long talked about us. A prominent right-wing Jewish activist recently told me, in a burst of fury, that “they” are “animals.” It reminded me of an encounter I had during a book signing. A dignified, elderly, heavily accented woman came up to me. I assumed she was Jewish. “I’m a Palestinian,” she said. “People talk about us like we have tails.”
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