Re: I also support the moderator

Please don't have this discussion on the ASA list. Take it up
privately with Rich.

TG

>Rich Faussette,
>
>I'm fairly new here, and I'd like to know what your views are concerning
>the state of Israel. Does it have the right to exist? Is its existence
>mainly a result of a conspiracy of international Jewry? Do you view
>Israel's extant political system on a par with the theocracies of its
>neighboring Islamic states?
>
>No one here is entirely without personal prejudice. If your curious, my
>background wrt "Jewry" is that I grew up in NYC with mostly Jewish
>classmates and in a very conservative Christian church that was most
>definitely pro-Israel (perhaps even "Zionist"). Forgive me for my
>narrow-mindedness, but I come down squarely on the Israel side of the
>middle-East conflict. We all need a starting point, and this is mine. It
>certainly didn't help to see televised footage of Palestian children
>jumping up and down screaming in delight at the sight of the World Trade
>Center towers collapsing on September 11, 2001.
>
>If all one had read was your post on International Jewry, one would assume
>one was in 1934 instead of 2004. Sorry, but -- a priori -- that's my gut
>reaction.
>
>In God's Peace,
>
>Roger

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