On 11 Sep, 2007, at 12:15 PM, David B. Shemano wrote:
Michael Perelman writes:
What is the most negative thing one is permitted to say about
Israel? I wish one of
the fanatics would tell us.
I will be happy to take the role of a fanatic. Your sentence is
incomplete. What you really mean is "what is the most negative
thing one is permitted to say about Israel WITHOUT BEING CRITICIZED
OR SUFFERING ANY CONSEQUENCES."
I believe your sentence is incomplete, too. What you really mean is:
"what is the most negative thing one is permitted to say about Israel
without being criticised or suffering any consequences THAT DO NOT
LOGICALLY FOLLOW AND ARE [HENCE] ILLEGITIMATE"? The answer as we all
know is there is nothing you can say that fits the bill. For it has
been logically demonstrated by Dershowitz et al that any statement
negative of Israel is equivalent to an anti-semitic statement, and
anti-semitism is a position that is worthy of legitimate criticism.
--ravi
