Doodad
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 Posted: Aug 08, 2008 19:14 Post subject: Why I think Naomi Klein is an anti-Semite |
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Interesting blog here
http://secondgenerationradical.blogmatrix.com/
| Quote: | When Vancouver newspaper The Georgia Straight (for whom I have written on affordable housing issues) carried a column by Naomi Klein (excerpted from her new book, Disaster Capitalism), I wrote a letter to the editor, explaining the moral quagmire that Ms. Klein has entered by reason of her "analysis" of Israelis profitting from their export of anti-terrorism services and materials.
To the editor of the Georgia Straight:
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> So, Naomi Klein has come up with the original theory that Israel
> profits mightily from its situation of being surrounded by Arabs who want to destroy
> it. ("Israel thrives, Gaza suffers", June 21st regarding Israeli exports
> of anti-terrorism equipment and expertise)
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> No mention that Israel turned over Gaza to the Palestinians without
> any quid pro quo.
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> No mention that Israel is a leader in all aspects of high tech, with
> such inventions as the computer chip and cell phone technology, and a multitude
> of medical technology, having been pioneered in Israel. No mention that
> many large companies like Intel, Motorola, IBM, Microsoft, Alcatel and
> 3Com all have research and development facilities in Israel. Intel and
> Motorola also manufacture advanced products in Israel, and many other
> multinationals have purchased local companies, buying their patents
> and acquiring their human talent.
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> No mention that twenty percent of the country's workforce are
> university graduates, the highest proportion in the world after the
> U.S., compared with 17% in Canada, 12% in Britain and 8% in Italy.
> Israel has the world's highest percentage of engineers (135 per 10,000
> people compared to 85 per 10,000 in the U.S.) and, with 28,000
> physicians, by far the highest number of medical doctors per capita in
> the world. In addition, Israeli academics publish more scientific
> papers in international journals (110 for every 10,000 persons) than any other country in the world.
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> But Klein alleges that "the chaos in Gaza …doesn't threaten the bottom line
> in Tel Aviv and may actually boost it." No mention of the dislocations to
> the Israeli economy of having to defend itself from periodic attacks,
> having to take reservists away from their occupations, having to
> periodically evacuate certain cities, as Iranian-backed terrorists lob
> missiles across the border. No mention of the threats from possible Iran nuclear weapons.
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> Why doesn't she mention any of this: Because to anti-Semites like
> Klein (even Jewish ones), the Israelis are the new Shylocks – driven
> like Shylock into a business Klein disapproves of, the Jew-Israelis are now making
> "profits" from the suffering (even the blood) of others. Thank you, Ms.
> Klein for yet another adaption of the anti-Semitic blood-libel, that
> Jews drink the blood of Christians/Muslims/whoever.
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read it all
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