Re: [Marxism] Tony Judt update

["Sayan Bhattacharyya" <ok.president+marxmail@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/5/06, Colin Brace <cb@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Charles Glass has recently published two books on the Middle East, The
> Northern Front and The Tribes Triumphant, and is writing a book set in
> France during the German occupation.
>
> http://www.lrb.co.uk/contribhome.php?get=glas01



> From Eugene Goodheart

Charles Glass writes that he is agnostic on Nasrallah's anti-semitism
(Letters, 4 January). One is agnostic about matters that can't be
proved or disproved such as the existence of God. It might more
plausibly be suggested that Glass is indifferent to the existence of
anti-semitism among Hizbullah's leaders. As it happens, Amal
Saad-Ghorayeb devotes an entire chapter to the subject, and provides
all the evidence Glass needs to conclude that Hizbullah is virulently
anti-Jewish. His reference to the alleged error in attribution of one
quotation does nothing to undermine other quotations in which
Nasrallah and his colleagues express their hatred of Jews. Here are
some of them: 'The history of the Jews has proven that regardless of
the Zionist proposal they are a people evil in their ideas.' 'From
what we know about the Jews, their tricks and deception, we do not
think it unlikely that they partook in the planning of the Holocaust.'
Jewish 'blood is full of enmity toward mankind'. There is no reason to
doubt the essential accuracy of Saad-Ghorayeb's account, since she is
clearly sympathetic to the aims of the movement. Glass says that
anti-semitism is irrelevant to his article about the role of Hizbullah
in Lebanon. But the article also concerns the movement's resistance to
Israel, so the question of anti-semitism is of vital importance.

Eugene Goodheart
Waltham, Massachusetts
<http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n02/letters.html>

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