Thursday, April 23, 2009
The conference against racism sponsored by the UN in Geneva ended in disaster when Iranian President, Ahmadinejad described Israel as a racist country. Instead he should have started with a history of Israel. Palestine was under British control and Balfour was British. He should have quoted Shylock's humiliation in the Merchant of Venice. He should have talked about jews collecting gold to ransom Richard I so that John could not become king of Britain. He should have pointed out that Israel was formed by jews fleeing persecution by christains in Europe. He should have described the pogroms in eastern Europe and the activities of the Vichy regime in France. He should have described the holocaust and the gas chambers at length instead of denying them. Then he should have asked if it would not have made poetic justice to establish a Jewish state in a part of defeated Germany instead of faraway Palestine? Were the christians hoping that the Arabs would wipe out the jews or did they want to protect their noses from the stench of jews? Instead he allowed the sanctimonious hypocrites to walk out on him and win the argument. Shows that fanatics are brain dead.
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I agree with your sentiments throughout, although I think your conclusion could do with a little supplement, if you don't mind...
You are fond of pointing out that the Arabs are "uncivilized" nomads who use methods of brute force to enforce and maintain their rule. Actually, although I will argue that "barbaric" and "uncivilized" are weighted terms since they have meaning only in comparison to something "better" (more aptly, different), it is the fact that the Arabs did not quite find "civilization" in the way that the Muslims of Turkey and Egypt have done - that is, they are unskilled in the crafts of statesmanship and modern systems of administration. Further, their education system is worse than ours in terms of broadening the manner in which students perceive with and interract with society and the world. Add to this the fact that the Arab and "modern" cultures are such at odds that Ahmedinijad may as well not have realised the futility of accusing, in a white-man's arena, the Jew of racism...
Just a thought :)
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