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naBaron [OP]

2003-06-25 13:00 | User Profile

[url=http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=7384]http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=7384[/url]

Are Critics of Israel Smeared as Anti-Semites? by Nicholas von Hoffman

**With something like this, there is no way of guessing the percentages. The type of people who have decided that the prudent thing to do is to keep their mouths zippered are literate, college-educated managers and professionals. When the poll-takers come around, these people are not going to tell them what they really think, any more than they’d tell anybody else whom they don’t know and have no reason to trust. Hence, there’s no telling if we’re dealing with one half of 1 percent of the population, or 2 percent, or what. We don’t know, but I’ll hazard a guess that they’re more numerous, more significant and less visible than those people figuring in Mr. Summers’ examples. It seems to me that the sense of being gagged and intimidated is growing—and, with it, a resentment that is not without a nasty edge...

Since 9/11, it seems that the number of underground dissenters has markedly increased, because although they don’t say so (except in their private circles), these people are convinced that the years of supplying arms and money to Israel ultimately triggered what they see as a retaliatory attack on the United States.

The underground dissenters aren’t afraid of the government; they fear informal social and economic punishment. They don’t fear being thrown in jail, but out on the street. Life-and-death issues of American foreign policy aren’t being debated and haven’t been debated, because the would-be debaters on one side fear that the personal cost of carrying on the argument would be too high.

So the other side has had the best of the argument for years..**

This guy is a good author, I've read quite a bit of his stuff over the years.

Raider of Arks

2003-06-25 15:24 | User Profile

A warning to fellow tribesmen: "we might be exposed, boys!"

It would be a real kick if America turned off its television sets and started whispering, wouldn't it?