Subject: Re: [Marxism] Shifting opinion on Israel

[<hari.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Les Schaffer <schaffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
"i turned to my tablemates and asked if anyone needed elaboration on my views. 
they all agreed (roughly) with what i said, and then one (non-Jew)
admitted to me she is not comfortable criticizing Israel, especially around 
Jews.
we sort-of-Jews need to make the non-Jew crowd feel better about their
anti-Israeli sentiments.

COMMENT

(1) You may not appreciate how true that is.
Numerous discussions with non-Jewish 'sort-of' progressives, and just plain 
human-shocked-at-what-is-happening' - are stifled if anyone comes into ear 
shot. 

(2) I am certainly not taking a rise.
But I think it is worth pointing out that Hinduism is not well understood in 
the West - as well as Islam. I was brought up in an intensely religious family. 
Anyone who has been so, and become a secularist (and not necessarily a Marxist) 
- perforce finds the fervent born-again Islamic protestations of some on this 
list, a bit weird. 
Hari Kumar 



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