Theos-Talk Archives (November 2002 Message tt00123)

Steve Stubbs wrote:
> 
> --- In theos-talk@y..., Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> > Arab
> > countries practice chattel slavery, and that the Palestinians in the
> > West Bank have far more rights than they would have under virtually
> any
> > Arab government, that phrasing shows incredible ignorance.
> 
> That does not make any sense, Bart. Arab governments do not surround
> their own cities with tanks, blow up their own government buildings,
> shoot down their own citizens for buying groceries in broad
> daylight, deny ordinary people water while fillinw swimming pools
> for squatters from Israel, or proclaim that every Arab needs to be
> driven out i the name of the "transfer" program.

That's true. That wouldn't happen to an insurgent population in an Arab
country; they'd just execute every man, woman and child.

Bart Lidofsky