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Re: A question of remembrance...
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Date: 
Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:11:20 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Shiri Dori writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
<snip rebuffing-of-Scott-part>

Richard did not rebuff me.

He can speak for himself of course, but calling your tone polemic strikes me
as a rebuke... and a well deserved one.

You've been called on this point before, you are quick to criticise some
sides (who deserve criticism, in this case Israel) and reluctant to
acknowledge that the UK had anything to do with the problem or that it has
faults elsewhere or that the other sides in the same conflict (in this case
the PLO) deserve criticism much much more.

++Lar



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(...) You are mixing tone and content. In any event, I was happy to have my tone called "polemic": (URL) (...) That is because I am talking about now. You are talking about the past. The UK's colonial past does not make it ok for Israelto torture (...) (23 years ago, 30-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) Richard did not rebuff me. He only gave the fact I quoted some context. Or are you saying that this is not true: "Turkey and Israel are "free to take care of it". However, both have a history of ignoring human rights and murdering civilians in (...) (23 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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