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From: melons@vnet.IBM.COM (Mike Magil)
Message-ID: <19930423.081008.572@almaden.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 93 11:06:03 EDT
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
Subject: Re: rejoinder. Questions to Israelis
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>From: bc744@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark Ira Kaufman)
>Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
>Subject: Re: rejoinder. Questions to Israelis
>Date: 23 Apr 1993 12:55:47 GMT
>Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
>
>
>   Although I realize that principle is not one of your strongest
>points, I would still like to know why do do not ask any question
>of this sort about the Arab countries.
>
>   If you want to continue this think tank charade of yours, your
>fixation on Israel must stop.  You might have to start asking the
>same sort of questions of Arab countries as well.  You realize it
>would not work, as the Arab countries' treatment of Jews over the
>last several decades is so bad that your fixation on Israel would
>begin to look like the biased attack that it is.
>
>   Everyone in this group recognizes that your stupid 'Center for
>Policy Research' is nothing more than a fancy name for some bigot
>who hates Israel.
>
>   Why don't you try being honest about your hatred of Israel?  I
>have heard that your family once lived in Israel, but the members
>of your family could not cut the competition there.  Is this true
>about your family?  Is this true about you?  Is this actually not
>about Israel, but is really a personal vendetta?  Why are you not
>the least bit objective about Israel?  Do you think that the name
>of your phony-baloney center hides your bias in the least?  Get a
>clue, Mr. Davidsson.  Haven't you realized yet that when you post
>such stupidity in this group, you are going to incur answers from
>people who are armed with the truth?  Haven't you realized that a
>piece of selective data here and a piece there does not make up a
>truth?  Haven't you realized that you are in over your head?  The
>people who read this group are not as stupid as you would hope or
>need them to be.  This is not the place for such pseudo-analysis.
>You will be continually ripped to shreds, until you start to show
>some regard for objectivity.  Or you can continue to show what an
>anti-Israel zealot you are, trying to disguise your bias behind a
>pompous name like the 'Center for Policy Research.'  You ought to
>know that you are a laughing stock, your 'Center' is considered a
>joke, and until you either go away, or make at least some attempt
>to be objective, you will have a place of honor among the clowns,
>bigots, and idiots of Usenet.

I couldn't have said it better, Mark!

- Mike.
