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Old Feb 16, 2008, 05:08 pm   #7 (permalink)
Nono
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What about the redneck zealots in Israel in their extraordinary garb that make Muslims look positively modern?
It's a problem for enlightened American Jews, admittedly. There's at least one example on this board (I won't name him since I'm not 100% certain). He's liberal, decent, very well informed -- certainly no redneck. And he can see both sides of the Palestine issue. But he just can't quite free himself of that tribal allegiance, and ends up being lopsidedly pro-Israel, meaning that he somehow always finds a way of justifying Israeli conduct, or at least throwing up his hands and blaming it all on the Arabs.

I can see why it isn't easy.


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