Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site k.cs.cmu.edu
Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!k.cs.cmu.edu!tim
From: tim@k.cs.cmu.edu (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Arab Psyche
Message-ID: <693@k.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 16:09:46 EST
Article-I.D.: k.693
Posted: Tue Dec  3 16:09:46 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Dec-85 20:35:12 EST
References: <287@aluxp.UUCP>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking
Lines: 39
Xref: lsuc net.politics:2313 net.religion.jewish:1662

This article was just too absurd to believe.  I am going to respond to it in
the only appropriate way, by parodying it.  Please bear in mind that my
responses are not my opinions, but are intended to demonstrate the fallacies
in the original.

I realize that it sounds bigoted to say that there is such a thing
as a "Jewish mind," that somehow these people are inherently different
than the rest of us. But from reading the newspapers and other 
observations, it really does seem that this Jewish mind exists,
and it is not pretty.

The one example that I remember most is the behavior of this Jew I knew.  He
had left his stove on and some food in the oven.  His wife was sleeping in
the other room, and it seemed like he would cause a fire, but he just would
not turn the stove off.  I asked him why and he said it would be "shabby" or
something -- I really didn't understand.  His dinner was burned, so I
offered him some perfectly good pork chops, and he turned me down rudely.

I don't think that I have to comment on this.

Other examples that stick in my mind:

When the American allies of the Jews were "victoriously" leaving Lebanon, as
everyone saw, they were shooting their ammunition into the air. I read that
around six (?) people were killed from the bullets going back down.

An Egyptian newspaper (sorry, don't remember which) published 
recently that the Israelis are setting up extermination camps in
Lebanon. They learned how to build them from 1940's Germany.

It seems clear that we are not dealing with normal human beings
here. Of course there are exceptions (I hope) but it does seem 
plausible that there really is a Jewish  psyche, with absolutely
no regard for (human or animal) life. Once this is accepted,
all normal channels of diplomacy are, unfortunately, down the drain.
-=-
Tim Maroney, Software Designer, CMU Center for Art and Technology
tim@k.cs.cmu.edu       | uucp: {seismo,decwrl,ucbvax,etc.}!k.cs.cmu.edu!tim
CompuServe: 74176,1360 | This is at least as funny as my other signatures.