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"Poignant question"

Glenn Reynolds asks a poignant question. "What would things be like for Palestinians now, if Israelis or Americans thought like Arabs? They wouldn't be like anything at all, of course. There wouldn't be any Palestinians." Bada-boom.

Cool.

Also, a quick note:

UPDATE: Reader Faisal N. Jawdat thinks this is a foolish generalization, bordering on racism. Well, it's a generalizaton: sort of like talking about "Germans" during World War Two. One might have pointed out that there were a few anti-Nazi Germans in Germany, and plenty of loyal, decent Americans of German extraction. But this wasn't necessary, since it was understood that the reference was to the vast majority of Germans, who were participants in a psychotic death cult that led them to march in the streets en masse and cheer the death of innocents. So we're really only at odds with the ones who think that way -- of which there were estimated to be 10,000 in the streets celebrating last night, and quite a few doing the same thing on September 11.

This is an important observation. I have to point out the Biblical analogy: Jews get the "Christ killer" rap because the Bible refers to Jews in reference to those who killed Christ. Same principle applies there.

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My point wasn't that the quote is a problem. My point was that you have to understand that it's a generalization. Reynolds is accurate in referring to the Palestinians as a group in this instance, just like the Biblical authors were justified in referring to "Jews". Overall, the Palestinians deserve their repuation.

Quick note about the use of the term "Jews" in the Bible that I'm referring to: I've heard that it may be more accurately translated as Judeans, and some translate it as "Jewish leaders". I'm not totally up on what the most appropriate translation is, but I just wanted to point out that there are those who say it shouldn't be translated as "Jews". Nevertheless, the translators who translated it as they did were satisfied that the meaning was clear, as it obviously wasn't all Jews who were against Christ, as the apostles, the Biblical authors, etc. were all Jews.

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