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- Subject: Re: jewish fundamentalism
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 12:26:43 CST
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- In article <1992Dec24.1777.21545@channel1>, "wayne mcguire" <wayne.mcguire@channel1.com> writes:
- > To: Alan Stein
- >
- > Packet: CHANNEL1
- > Date: 12-24-92 (02:56) Number: 21537
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- [...]
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- > Btw, can you you clarify something for me? Why do emotional
- > Israeli supporters around here repeatedly try to pass of as
- > factual statements remarks that can easily be refuted from
- > well-documented sources?
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- I guess they do it for the same reasons that emotional
- haters of Israel do. Emotional people usually don't
- let facts stand in their way. I'll never forget, for
- example, your assertion that Harkabi was the head of
- the IDF Intelligence under Begin.
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- How many times do they have to be burned
- > before they realize that the best path is to stick to the truth?
- > Every time they are caught out in misstatements and falsehoods,
- > their credibility sinks yet another notch lower. At this point
- > the Israeli lobby has virtually no credibility in Western
- > democratic circles with an IQ above room temperature, precisely
- > because it has been caught in telling so many lies.
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- The important thing is to tailor your credibility to
- the IQ of the audience. Then again, you can always
- claim that the IQ in Western democratic circles is
- a (by)product of the ISraeli lobby activities, can't
- you?
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- [...]
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- Noam
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