On Sep 11, 2007, at 2:28 PM, David B. Shemano wrote:
I did want to note the irony (if that's the right word) of Doug Henwood complaining when anti-Israel critics are accused of being Nazis, and Jim Devine contemporaneously calling Israel "one of the worst kinds of ethnic nationalist regimes currently on earth," which I think a reasonable reader would interpret as a Nazi analogy. So apparently it is unfair rhetoric for somebody to call your side Nazis, but okay rhetoric to call the other side Nazis, and if anybody calls you a Nazi for calling them a Nazi, that proves they are a Nazi.
Wow, that's really dumb. I'm almost speechless at how utterly dumb that is. No one called Israel "Nazi," and it's a plain statement of fact that Israel is an ethnic-nationalist regime. What else do you call a state that provides subsidized housing to people born in Brooklyn because they're the right "nationality" (and "Jewish" is a nationality unlike any other, but leave that aside) yet evicts people whose families have been in the area for centuries because they're the wrong "nationality"? I'd think a libertarian might object to that use of state power. Doug
