ZGram - 11/17/2001 - "Yet one more courageous Letter to the Editor"

[irimland@zundelsite.org]

Copyright (c) 2001 - Ingrid A. Rimland

ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

November 17, 2001

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Below you will find a courageous, politically incorrect Letter to the
Editor that actually got printed.  If you appreciate the fact that the
Maine Times had the courage to publish it and would like to let them know,
their email address is:   mainetimes@mainetimes.com

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To the Editor:

The Maine Times' October issues have illustrated what seems to be an
unfortunate and growing ethnic distrust in North America between Jews and
gentiles because of two related matters. The first is the question of what
really caused the Sept. 11 attack on the WTC: was it America's foreign
policy in the Middle East, consisting of direct support of Israel and, in
recent years, its dealings with Israel's neighbors pretty much as Israel
would like? Or was it something to do with Arab envy of democracy, a method
of sharing power among citizens which is not unique to the US and which is
never a guarantee of justice toward anyone (as illustrated by "democratic"
Israelis' abuse of Palestinians).

Second, we have the panicky effort being made by many Jews to limit what is
discussed in all this (e.g., Wayne O'Leary's lucid column [MT Oct. 4] being
labeled by our "professional historian" at the University of Maine [MT Oct.
11] as  "bordering on anti-Semitism" and worthy of "a failing grade as a
mere undergraduate paper", etc.).

Jews are understandibly horrified that anyone might reflect on the primal
fact that most of Israel's territory was stolen from Arabs. As long as we
don't think about that, we don't object to Jews calling Palestinians
"terrorists" rather than people simply trying to get their land back in a
world of realpolitik. So long as their Orwellian (as in "Animal Farm")
manipulation succeeds, Americans will feel a common cause with Israel in
defending against all those supposedly irrational "terrorists" who attack
us both. But if it doesn't work, Israel and Jews generally will be seen as
having brought the wrath of Palestinians down upon themselves. And, along
with the US government's misguided foreign policy, they will be seen as a
major ultimate cause of the September 11th "War on America".

I suggest that Jews throughout N. America and the US government dissociate
themselves from and put a stop to predatory Israeli policies before
anti-Semitism gets out of hand.

Anthony Hilton Weld,
Maine & Montreal
Anthony Hilton Psychology Department (Ret.)
Concordia University Montreal, Quebec

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Thought for the Day:

"Anti-Semitism and Jewish chauvinism can only be
fought simultaneously."

--Israel Shahak, holocaust survivor and Israeli Peace Activist