You do like quoting out of context. How about "some" rabbis, as your sources make clear? But if I'm wrong about bias, I apologize. Mark At 03:18 AM 9/28/2001 +0000, you wrote: >>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 19:30:27 -0700 >> >>If you want a detailed anaysis of a complex discussion of traditional >>Jewish law, which anyway dates from a very long time ago, you won't get it >>from me. > > ><roll eyes> I'll add it to the list of things you can't be expected to >deliver. > >In a discussion which began with the WTC attacks, Candice mentioned some >quotations from the Quran. She asked where there were similar passages in >the OT. > >I cited similar passages, and cited the fact rabbis had cited them to >justify Sharon's killing of Palestinians in specific. *That's* the >connection between the Bronze Age and today, and made not by me, but some >people who I'm sure would love to hear from you about their lightly veiled >anti-Semeticism. > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp >