>From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Letter to a leftist friend/the real mystics/innocents
>Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:15:04 -0600
>
> >Doug Barbour wrote:
> >
> >> Those passages from the Koran, Candice:
> >>>
> >>> 008.025 And guard yourselves against a chastisement which cannot fall
> >>> exclusively on those of you who are wrong-doers, and know that Allah
>is
> >>> severe in punishment.
> >>>
> >>> 008.057 If thou comest on them in the war, deal with them so as to
>strike
> >>> fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may remember.
> >>>
> >> chill me too.
> >>
> >> But Jehovah has some to match them in the OT.
> >
> > Can you post some of them, Doug? I'd be very interested to see those
> >matches. Thanks--Candice
>
>Ah, i just meant the tone, & maybe what Robin & others pointed to, that
>anger at anyone not 'onside'.
>
>I'll shut up now
Who now remembers the Midianites? <smile>
The correct reference in reply would be a citation of Israel Shahak's work,
but a quick google search brought me to this:
---
Page after page recounts Jewish destruction and extermination of peoples
standing in the way of God's chosen: in chapter 3 of Deuteronomy "And we
utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city." My favorite,
however, is in chapter 31 of Numbers, where at the Lords instruction to beat
up the Midianites, they did this, "and they slew all the males...burnt all
the cities," and brought back the women and children. But the payoff is that
Moses was angry with the leader of the military expedition for having spared
the women and children and said "Now therefore kill every male among the
little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But
all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep
alive for yourselves." This tradition in treating enemies, starting with
Moses, is well preserved in the Gush Emunim, Shamir, Netanyahu, and Rabin
(who several years ago as Defense Minister authorized the Isaeli forces to
enter Palestinian homes and "break bones.")
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http://www.zmag.org/ParEcon/amtisemforum.htm
also see http://www.cactus48.com/jewishlaw.html
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