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I find it shameful that Europeans who haven't managed yet to come to terms with their own history of anti-Semitism and to deal with its lingering effects get so totally confused about how to address the current issues particularly the dangerous rise of racism in national and international social-political currents. I find it shameful to note the other racist discourse in bloom (e.g "sell their own mother to a harem"). This discourse is on the same anti-Semite continuum. After all, as a very astute friend recently pointed out, Palestinian people are Semite too. I find it shameful that she paints that war criminal Sharon in murmuring tones as "that tragic and Shakespearean figure." I find it shameful to have once, in my distant youth, thought of Fallaci as a relatively smart journalist. By the way, how does one dress as a "suicide bomber"?!! I thought the point was to dress inconspicuously to not raise suspicion! Gita Hashemi At 5:41 PM -0400 4/18/02, WoNereH@aol.com wrote: >On Jew-hatred in Europe >By Oriana Fallaci >April 17, 2002 >Originally published in Corriere della Sera. Translation by Chris and >PaolaNewman > >I find it shameful that in Italy there should be a procession of individuals >dressed as suicide bombers who spew vile abuse at Israel, hold up photographs >of Israeli leaders on whose foreheads they have drawn the swasitka, incite >people to hate the Jews. And who, in order to see Jews onceagain in the >extermination camps, in the gas chambers, in the ovens of Dachau and >Mauthausen and Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen et cetera, would selltheir own >mother to a harem. -- ====== The occupation of Palestinian lands must end if peace is to begin. Work for peace: Demand the end to the occupation. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net