Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Al Jazeera interview

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Mike Miller wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Apparently this is an interview on Al Jazeera that has had over a 
> > > million hits in the Middle East.
> > >
> > > http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=null
> >
> >
> >   full text of video:
> >   http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1050
> >
> >   The Jews have come from the tragedy (of the Holocaust), and forced the
> >   world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with their terror,
> >   with their work, not their crying and yelling. Humanity owes most of
> >   the discoveries and science of the 19th and 20th centuries to Jewish
> >   scientists. 15 million people, scattered throughout the world, united
> >   and won their rights through work and knowledge. We have not seen a
> >   single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a
> >   single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by
> >   killing people.
>
>
>
> She was not accurate when she said "We have not seen a single Jew blow 
> himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy 
> a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people."  
> Here is an example:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque_of_Abraham_massacre
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Goldstein
>
> I think her point is still correct though -- the Muslim reaction to 
> critical comments often involves threats of violence but the Jews were 
> not happy about what happened in Hebron on that day.  But it is an 
> exmple of a Jew who protested by killing people.

I agree.  While some Jews definitely commit terror acts (e.g. the King 
David Hotel bombing in 1946), Jews generally are very ambivilant if not 
outright hostile to their own people committing these types of acts. 
These are anomolies, not patterns of repeating behavior.

Stephen

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