>From: Mark Weiss <[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 17:58:40 -0700
>
>Probably pointless, altho I'm always wary of anything that could be read as
>"blame the jews." See the very slightly veiled antisemitism of Sevanthi
>Ragunathan's post proposing a causal connection between the Bronze and Iron
>Age accounts of warfare in the Old Testament and the savagery of the modern
>Israeli state: "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.')"
<yawn> Pointless indeed, but why should that stop you? While I'm
oh-so-sure that you are wary of anything that could read as "blame the
Jews", the "lightly veiled anti-semeticism" of the proposal was not mine, to
say the least.
You know, if you'd simply clicked the links, particularly the second, you
could have saved me the trouble of remarking on your stupidity.
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