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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Middle East, Oil and the costs of Militarism
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Date: Sun, 17-Nov-85 17:18:02 EST
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Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
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Summary: 

>>**** side note for those who care about fighting apartheid:  notice the
>>danger TO THE ANTI-APARTHEID FIGHT of the Zionism-is-racism lie.  To
>>link Israel and South Africa is to radically minimize the oppression and 
>>suffering of the Blacks, and waters down the term "apartheid" from a specific
>>and real evil into meaning, essentially, "something I don't like".
>>		Lou Steinberg

In article <76@uw-june> sweillam@uw-june (Hisham Sweillam) writes:
>Just for the record:
>1. There has been a U.N. resolution in 1975 condemning Zionism
>   as a racist movement.

In truth, this resolution is really a condemnation of the UN, not Israel.

>2. See: "Israel's Global Role  Weapons for Repression" by Israel Shahak.
>   PUblished by AAUG press.
>   This book written by Prof. Shahak drwas  primarily from the Hebrew press.
>   It documents Israeli support for el Salvador's Junta, Somoza in Nicaragua
>   the Shah in Iran and South Africa.
>   * This book is censored in Israel*

First of all, Israel trades less with South Africa than the neighboring
black African states.  To single out Israel for trading with them is
unfair.

With respect to the other regimes you mentioned (Somoza, Shah of Iran,
El Salvador's Junta), what does this have to do with _RACISM_?  I've
heard many criticisms of these governments, but I've never heard that
they were racist.

>3. Another useful reference in this context is:
>    "Israel's Sacred Terrorism" by Livia Rokach. Published by AAUG Press.
>    The book is based on Moshe Sharett, Israel's first foreign minister and
>    prime minister from 1953-55, personal diary which reveals how men like
>    Ben Gurion, Ariel Sharon, and Moshe Dayan sought to destabilize Arab 
>    neighbors through covert military operations and terrorist activity.

I think you are confusing "guerilla" activities with "terrorism".
But, even if what you say is true, what does it have to do with _RACISM_?

	Frank Silbermann