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Posted by Juan F. Lara on 08/09/06 19:12
In article <1155062013.633548.292250@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
<clifffreeling@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Haven't you learned how Israel is just __defending itself__
>by its continued practice of slaughtering innocent women and
>children?
>Kill ratio of Palestinian children to Israeli children 5.7-to-1,
>Israel's favor.
>Kill ratio of all Palestinians to Israelis: over 3-to-1.
Right, and you're raising a stink about this on these boards because you
care about the well being of other human beings in danger, NOT because you have
a soul-rotting obsessive hatred of Jews that drives you to even pretend to
stick up for "brown people" in order to prop up your sick agenda...
> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/print/mear01_.html
Get your dirty hands off of that article. Mearsheimer and Walt intended
their article as a needed warning about the excess of power of AIPAC, a lobby
narrowly defined by the hardline right wing spectrum of Israel. They write in
their article:
"Finally, the Lobbys influence has been bad for Israel. Its ability to
persuade Washington to support an expansionist agenda has discouraged Israel
from seizing opportunities - including a peace treaty with Syria and a prompt
and full implementation of the Oslo Accords - that would have saved Israeli
lives and shrunk the ranks of Palestinian extremists. Denying the
Palestinians their legitimate political rights certainly has not made Israel
more secure, and the long campaign to kill or marginalise a generation of
Palestinian leaders has empowered extremist groups like Hamas, and reduced the
number of Palestinian leaders who would be willing to accept a fair settlement
and able to make it work. Israel itself would probably be better off if the
Lobby were less powerful and US policy more even-handed."
They're warning about the dangers AIPAC posed to Israel as well as anyone
else. They did NOT intend their article to be misused as a prop for NeoNazi
rhetoric. Cliff Reeling all but desecrates Mearsheimer and Walt's work by
trying to kidnap it for his drivel.
- Juan F. Lara
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