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From: martillo@hector.UUCP (Yakim Martillo)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Terrorism
Message-ID: <173@hector.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-Nov-85 12:43:23 EST
Article-I.D.: hector.173
Posted: Thu Nov 28 12:43:23 1985
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In article <1656@utcsri.UUCP> vassos@utcsri.UUCP (Vassos Hadzilacos) writes:
>> [...] And it is a little
>> presumptuous to assume that the "Palestinians" will wait for
>> 2000 years. [...] Palestinians Arabs have no significant culture
>> which can hold them together for 2000 years.  Many peoples came
>> and went in those 2000 years, but aside from the dominant culture,
>> ONLY the Jews survived.
>> And going back some 3500 years, Jewish culture is the only survivor
>> in the world.  I know that other peoples have been around that long,
>> but NOT their culture, unchanged. [...] 
> 
>- Leaving aside the thinly veiled attempt to deny the Palestinians their
>  national identity (by putting quotes around the word)
>- Leaving aside the chauvinism implicit in the lie that Palestinians
>  "have no significant culture"
>- Leaving aside the historical ignorance displayed in the assertion
>  that dominant cultures aside (whatever that means) "ONLY the Jews
>  survived" as a people the past 2000 years
>- Leaving aside the total confusion of culture and religion in the
>  above quoted passage
>- Leaving aside the ludicrous statement that Jewish culture has remained
>  "unchanged" for 3500 years (an insult on Jewish culture, for sure)
>
>Leaving all these aside, the argument put forth in the above quoted
>passage is still nonesense.
>
>Jewish people have every right to be proud, very proud of their
>culture and their contributions to human civilisation. But this
>gives no right to the state of Israel to inflict injustice upon
>other people. Mind you, the same type of argument was advanced
>by colonial powers to exhonorate the atrocities they committed
>during colonisation. Somehow the "superior" Western culture made
>the enslaving of Africans and the extermination of native people
>in America a justifiable act.
>
>--Vassos Hadzilacos.

Again Hadzilacos shows his gross Western chauvinistic ignorance.
Jewish culture is more non-Western than Islamic culture.

Anyway sympathizing with the former Muslim persecutors of Jews would
be like sympathizing with Afrikaner attempts to regain S. Africa should
the blacks ever gain control of the nation from the white oppressors.

Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo Ajami