From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 03:32:40 MDT
From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Olga stated:
<<Lots. Oh, off the top of my head ... recently, of course, we have Osama Bin
Laden; Sharon of Israel would qualify>>
On this point, I believe that Ariel Sharon has been a life-long atheist or agnostic.
Yes, you're right. Sharon supposedly threw away the Baby, but he is still the proud possessor of the dirty bathwater. A pox on my imagination - as always - but I've never understood the distinction between a religious Jew and a secular Jew very well. The latter seems an oxymoron.
Gore Vidal wrote: "In May 1993, Ariel Sharon formally proposed in the Likud Convention that Israel should adopt the 'Biblical borders' concept as its official policy. There were rather few objections to this proposal, either in the Likud or outside it, and all were cased on pragmaic grounds. No one even asked Sharon where exactly are the Biblical borders which he was urging that Israel should attain."
This by Professor Israel Shahak, Author of Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years): "In the same way, the kibbutz, widely hailed as an attempt to create a Utopia, was and is an exclusivist Utopia; even if it is composed of atheists, it does not accent Arab members on principle and demands that potential members from other nationalities be first converted to Judaism. No wonder the kibbutz boys can be regarded as the most militaristic segment of the Israeli jewish society."
Whenever the subject of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict lights across my brain, I get very, very sleepy all ... of ... a ...... s.....u........d................d............................e.....................................................
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