Re: The terrorism meme

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Mon 04 Nov 2002 - 23:40:38 GMT

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    > >From: joedees@bellsouth.net
    > >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk, fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk
    > >Subject: Re: The terrorism meme
    > >Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:02:16 -0600
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    > > > joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
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    > > > > http://www.meforum.org/article/175
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    > > > Middle East Forum, ("Protecting America's Interests) - colleagues
    > > > of our friends in Campus Watch.
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    > >Ad hominem. Check out the articles, and judge them on their merits.
    > >I could have posted scathing critiques of Edward Said, but refrained.
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    > What's the problem with Ed Said? I haven't read a whole lot of what
    > he's written, but he wrote an essay that capped off the book _The War
    > for Palestine_ (edited by Eugene Rogan and Avi Shlaim. 2001. Cambridge
    > University Press. Cambridge UK) which seemed alright to me. Also
    > writing essays in this book were Benny Morris and Avi Shlaim, who are
    > Israeli "New Historians" that those on the Israeli far right might
    > consider as bad as Said because they don't tow the line of standard
    > Israeli historiography.
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    You might wanna check out: http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/17/jan99/said.htm
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    > I've no problems with the general spirit of Palestinian
    > self-determination, but the tactics used have been abhorrent. I've no
    > truck with suicide bombers and if the moderates of the Palestinian
    > side don't start coming to the forefront and taking back the reins of
    > their cause from the Islamicists and other assorted extremist
    > rejection fronters, I can't see much more than a whole lot more
    > needless bloodletting down the road. I can't blame Israel for
    > retaliation, but I also see settlement policies as not being helpful.
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    > Hopefully Israel takes a turn toward the left or center left with all
    > the commotion surrounding late breaking power struggles. A vote of no
    > confidence in the Knesset could go a long way to securing the future
    > of the peace process. The Likud Revisionists and the nationalist
    > religious right are impeding the peace process too, via settlement
    > policies in the occupied territories.
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    As long as the Palestinian suicide bombings continue, Israel will be forced into a stance of pre-emptive occupation. I agree that the Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza should be removed.
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