From: chrism@cirrus.com (Chris Metcalfe)
Subject: MEQ -- Its Editor and His Agenda / One Question
Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:01:58 GMT

In article <1k5fnsINNs6f@manuel.anu.edu.au> bdm@cs.anu.edu.au writes:
>In article <1993Jan26.042408.12410@cirrus.com> Chris Metcalfe writes:

[stuff about changing my diapers, tantrums, and zero knowledge
dismissed as distracting chaff -- more poetic, but equally
insubstantive as the "emotional supporter of Israel" tactic
used by Wayne McGuire.]

>Everyone can see you know nothing about the letter I am excerpting.

Two hyperspace jumps in one sentence!  You went inside the minds of
"everyone" to asses their opinions of my posts, then you went inside
my mind to determin my reading background.  This is a common pitfall
of those posters in this newsgroup that play to an audience in a
type of public access freak role, rather than using the facility for 
dialog.  Usually this kind of poster invents some sort of logotype to
complete their Rush Limbaugh fantasies.  Tell 'em MEQ sent you.

>>If you don't have an agenda, why post
>>only these fragments?  Well?
>
>I hate to tell you this, but someone using your name posted
>FRAGMENTS from something on tpm only recently.  Since I know
>you only post complete documents yourself, you should track
>down the culprit immediately.

You refer to my supplying the full paragraphs (in true Shaul Wallach 
tradition, 11K's worth) from Maimonides' "Letter To Yemen" to expose
the lying manner in which Wayne McGuire had fabricated a vicious smear 
that labled Judaism/Zionism as racist.  Fabricated through context-free
editorialized publication of text excerpts, which is also my issue 
with MEQ #12.

That brings us full circle to the beginning of this thread Brendan:

>>[Chris:]
>>You (Center For Policy Research) and Wayne and MEQ consistantly
>>label Jews and Zionists as racists, as you have done above. 

>[Brendan:]
>What kind of vicious lie is this?  No posting in the MEQ series,
>nor any posting of its editor (me) has ever labelled Jews and
>Zionists (in general) as racists.  Let's see if you are adult
>enough to prove your claim or apologise.

>>[Chris:]
>>MEQ #12.  Chaim Weizmann expresses his admiration of Arabs.

Meat and potatoes time:

>The fact is that I have never failed to defend either the facts or 
>the editorial in any MEQ.  

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK.  So what, in your view, is the historical relevance of the letter
from Chaim Weizmann, and more specifically, the fragments that you have 
excerpted?   "Middle East Quotes is an occaisional series of quotations 
on Middle East history."  This is the one to answer Brendan.  

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>>While you are at it, why not contribute something to the MEQ series
>>>yourself?  Just send me your favorite quote and be prepared to
>>>argue about sources and context.  If I decide to accept it, you
>>>will get a chance to veto the final product.  

But I don't need to post my views through your pseudo-anonymous
mechanism.  I post my views as my opinion.  That's probably why you've
only gotten one submission from anyone other than the editor.

-- Chris Metcalfe