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Re: A question of remembrance...
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Date: 
Tue, 8 May 2001 14:45:57 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:

  With any luck the hardcore Zionists won't be with us too
  much longer--they, like the hard line of so many lands,
  pass and moderation becomes possible.  It takes brave people
  to pave that way, and I'm convinced that many have not done
  so for fear of being Michael Collins-ed (look him up) in the
  end--

Kind of an obtuse way of saying "forgotten" or "ignored".  :-)

Bruce

(for the younger, Michael Collins was the Astronaut from the Apollo 11 moon
mission that didn't walk on the moon)



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  Re: A question of remembrance...
 
(...) Actually, I was thinking Lindsay was trying to start up another Liam Neeson movie controversy. Dave! (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: A question of remembrance...
 
(...) Nope. Wrong Michael Collins. See below, it's not obtuse at all. (...) Actually, that's a different Michael Collins. The one I'm thinking of was the one sent in 1922 by Eamon de Valera to negotiate the Good Friday Agreement that created the (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) I hadn't thought about the etymology, odd! Even odder, when considering that the inhabitants of Philistia were Mycenaean Greeks displaced by the Dorian Invasions of c. 800BC. :) I do wonder, then, how much of their genetics and culture ended (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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