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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
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Subject: Zionist == terrorist?????
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Date: Sun, 6-Nov-83 22:31:56 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  6 22:31:56 1983
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Mike Hodge claims:
	A semantic [sic] person is a Jew, a Zionist is a radical
	terrorist using all of the tools of terror to try to achieve
	the goals of the Jews.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Mike, I suggest you read a little history. A Zionist is a person who
subscribes to Zionism. Zionism maintains that the Jews have the right
to live as an independent nation, not subject to oppression, pogroms
or mass slaughter. If you examine the history of Israel and of Zionism,
you will find little terrorism on the part of the Jews. A little, but not
much. Certainly nothing compared to the terrorism which the PLO has used
and continues to use.

The experience of the Jews in Europe who suffered from anti-semitism
which culminated in the Holocaust brought the Zionist movement to a
head. It became quite clear that the Jewish people could not continue
to be homeless. Having nowhere to go was the primary cause of the scale
of the Holocaust.

Zionists began acquiring (PURCHASING) and settling on unused land in what is
now Israel long before the country came into existence in 1948. When the
U.N. voted to partition Palestine (till then a British colony) into TWO
coutnries, one Arab, one Jewish, the Jews offered peace and co-existence
to their Arab neighbours. The Arabs didn't like the idea of an independent
Jewish country, and thought it would be easy to destroy it. They're still
trying. Israel's goal (and the goal if Zionists) throughout its history has
been to achieve PEACE in the region.

Perhaps there aren't very many Jews in Oklahoma. You obviously don't
know any. I suggest you read an unbiased history of the formation of
Israel ("O Jerusalem" by Collins & Lapierre is a good one) before
spouting any more of your drivel.


Dave Sherman
Toronto
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