From: "wayne mcguire" <wayne.mcguire@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
Subject: real fascism
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:06:27 EST
Reply-To: "wayne mcguire" <wayne.mcguire@channel1.com>
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To: Chris Metcalfe

 CM> Nice try Wayne, but you have zero credibility left.

A response this pathetic is not going to convince many people,
other than your fellow true believers who have been reduced to
chanting mantras about anti-Semitism whenever confronted with
unanswerable questions about Israeli policies, that you have the
credibility to judge anyone else's credibility.

I haven't seen a single substantive post from you in this
newsgroup. You certainly haven't posted any effective responses
or arguments to the clips I posted.

As to who has the better lock on reality, I suggest you take a
close look around you and observe into what a deep hole Israel is
digging itself with the latest deportations. The Zionist true
believers who are defending the deportations with all kinds of
torturous rationalizations are digging themselves and Israel into
even a deeper hole. I'm sure you can come up with a flippant
response that will make the hole even deeper.

Not only was the deportation morally repugnant, but it was
extraordinarily stupid. We are being told that the action was
taken as the product of supposed political calculation on the
part of the Israelis. Brilliant stuff.

The entire world, including mainstream America, is increasingly
finding Israel's policies to be indefensible, and does not want
to be associated with them. Before long Israel's last remaining
ally in the world will be the Christian fundamentalists. Won't
you feel part of a select group then? Pat Robertson and Jerry
Falwell are two of the last leading figures in the Western
democratic world who will come to Israel's defense with any
enthusiasm. This state of affairs should be sending a message of
some kind to Israel's more blind supporters about what kind of
track they are on, but they are too conditioned to respond in a
kneejerk way to any criticism of Israel to consider carefully
what is going on around them.

If you're looking for a Nazi mentality, check out those who
support deporting population groups en masse without even a hint
of due process and using collective punishment as an instrument
to beat and terrorize people into submission. Supporters of
present-day Israel are aligning themselves with those kind of
policies and will be judged accordingly.

Due process may not mean much to you, but to most Americans it is
a sacred principle. Once you start legitimizing Israel's current
policies, you have no idea where they will stop. One would think
Jews especially would be sensitive to the need to protect
fundamental civil rights. Once you tear at the fabric of civil
rights even a little, you run the risk of slipping into fascism
very quickly.

We've been finding out some real fascists in recent days, and
curiously enough you seem to be in their political camp.
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