Lawrence,
There are tens of thousands of Israeli intellectuals who are opposed
to their government's policies of occupation-- and thousands of
"non-intellectuals", too. That would be an important point to
remember, lest *all* hope for a reasonable fix to the mess be lost.
Kent
>>>One notices the same discrepancies and blindness when
Israeli intellectuals
concentrate on their own tragedies and leave out of the equation
the much
greater suffering of a dispossessed people without a state, or an
army, or
an air force, or a proper leadership, that is, Palestinians whose
suffering
at the hands of Israel continues minute by minute, hour by hour.
This sort
of moral blindness, this inability to evaluate and weigh the
comparative
evidence of sinner and sinned against (to use a moralistic
language that I
normally avoid and detest) is very much the order of the day,"
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