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From: "Henry Gould" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 21 June 2002 19:14
| You yourself are being bully-like, Lawrence.
In what PRECISE sense?
I would like an answer
I dispute that, unless opposing a USAmerican is now inherently being a bully
| If you have a right to make such remarks, other certainly have the right
to
| counterbalance them or oppose them without being called bullies.
I accuse Frederick of writing a non sequitur, not of bullying. Please don't
misrepresent me
On a discussion list I think there should be discussion not sloganising and
such I judge Frederick's remark to have been. It suggests to me he doesn't
have anything to say. Let him put a counter argument if he has one
| To romanticize your remarks as the "unofficial version" is a kind of
| propaganda.
But I didn't
Please don't misrepresent me
dismissing anti-war sentiments as romantic seems to be a USAmerican cliche
an unofficial versiion only
I note your clever Biblical
| quotations to the Buffalo list.
Not intended as clever
that's another dismissive cliche where a reasoned argument would have been
welcome
Unanswerable perhaps
| No matter how Machiavellian the policy of Sharon - playing divide and
| conquer, setting up his own people as victim-pawns - the policy of Hamas &
| co. is just as evil if not more so. Does this mean I support
| Sharon? No. It means I would look for a way out of conflict based on
| mediation, understanding & compromise, rather than painting one or the
| other antagonist as "the bad guys", like you do.
I didn't mention Hamas. Frederick did. It is, yawn, a non sequitur.
I did not paint anyone as "the bad guys". I did scoff at the idea of
explaining the murder which happened today as a mistake, which it may have
been, when the important issue is why they were firing tank shells anywhere
near a civilian population
a civilian population of someone else's country which they have invaded
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| Henry
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