Re: Stiglitz on Soros

["J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

     I am going to jump in and play Ric Holt briefly.
I am sure that not much purpose will be served
by getting a discussion going about the current
situation between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Although there are some economic aspects to this
matter, this is a horribly emotionally charged issue,
especially right now, that is NOT going to be
resolved by any discussion that happens on this list.
The Washington Post just had a story about various
groups of people yelling and screaming at each
other in the streets of Washington over this issue.
The bottom line of the story was that none of the
people involved in either the screaming or listening
to the screaming were remotely convinced by what
they heard (or said) to or from the other parties.
I expect that any further discussion of this matter here
will simply lead to the internet equivalent of that without
anyone being informed of anything that they do not
already know or convinced of anything that they already
do not believe.
Barkley Rosser
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erdogan Bakir" <bakir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "ahmet tonak" <eatonak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:01 AM
Subject: Re: Stiglitz on Soros


> This is just great. Should I take it as a naive statement made by one of
the
> prominent economists of 20th century or is it just expression of how one
can
> be so naive when it comes to issue of or choice between just and US
> interest. I don't know what makes you say that prof Davidson, but you are
> expected to know that whole history of Palestine-Israel conflict can not
be
> reduced to Clinton peace proposal against which Palestine authorities
> rightly stood up since the only aim of the proposal was to put Palestine
> people into some reservations as US did to Native Americans. I don't even
> want to come to issues of occupations, settlements etc. If you don't mind,
I
> highly recommend you, prof. Davidson, to visit z-mag web site
> (www.zmag.org). Chomsky may have something to say regarding this issue.
> Best
> Erdogan BAKIR
> University of Utah
> Economics Department
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pkt-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pkt-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Paul Davidson
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 6:33 PM
> To: ahmet tonak
> Cc: pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Stiglitz on Soros
>
>
> At 12:26 PM 5/9/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >To start up a discussion first a correction is needed.
> >
> >I am assuming Professor Davidson did not mean "the Palestine
> >Authority."  He meant
> >"the state of Israel."  Am I wrong?
> >
> >Best,
> >
> >E. Ahmet Tonak
> >Simon's Rock College of Bard
>
> You are VERY WRONG! I meant the Palestine Authority who has apparently
> financed terrorist - including suicide bombers--operations.
>
> If the Palestine Authority (i.e., Arafat) had accepted Clinton's peace
> proposal, then there would be no suicide bombers, the border between the
> Israel-Gaza strip would be open Arabs to work in Israel and earn a
> reasonable wage --  Instead they are unemployed or earning much less  if
> they have a job in GAZA, now that that border had to be closed in trying
to
> stop the bombers.  And as economists we should support policies that
create
> jobs for Arabs in Gaza -- and since the Arabs freely took the jobs in
> IsrAEL BEFORE THE BORDER CLOSED -- IT SHOULD BE CLEAR THAT THEY PREFERRED
> THE INCOME THEY COULD EARN IN ISRAEL TO WHAT THEY COULD EARN IN THE GAZA
> STRIP.
>
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