<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>I give the editors their due--they print all letters that are sent to them (with a limit of one per person per month), excluding I presume only those that are blatantly obscene in the conventional manner.</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> unionyes <unionyes@ameritech.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> David Green <davegreen84@yahoo.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> Peace-discuss List <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sun, February 28, 2010 6:25:27 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Peace-discuss] Letter sent to N-G<BR></FONT><BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>For what my opinion is worth David,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>your letter to the N-G is an EXCELLENT reply and an accurate historical analogy !</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Let's see if they print it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>David Johnson</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4"><B>From:</B> <A title=davegreen84@yahoo.com href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com">David Green</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace Discuss</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February 28, 2010 5:55 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Peace-discuss] Letter sent to N-G</DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>On February 28<SUP>th</SUP>, News-Gazette editors reprinted an 1,100 word article from the L.A. Times on Israel ’s anti-rocket defense plan against Gaza . It included two large pictures, one of a Jewish Israeli woman in her damaged home in Sderot, the other of smoke trails from Palestinian rockets. The article explored the use of $1 billion by Israel to develop and deploy an “Iron Dome” high-tech defense system. The article and pictures consumed about 1/4 of the Commentary section.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I wonder if, in 1943, the editors would have printed an article, from the German perspective, of Nazi efforts to defend German cities against Allied bombing, complete with a picture of a clearly pious Christian German woman beneath a damaged ceiling in an<SPAN> </SPAN>otherwise civilized living room. I also wonder if during the same year they would have published a German perspective on Nazi efforts to combat Jewish terrorism in the Warsaw Ghetto.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>The analogy may not be perfect. As far as we know, Jewish Israelis have not yet planned a final solution for the Palestinians, and Palestinians have not yet accepted their fate. Nevertheless, the analogy holds in terms of the distinction between perpetrator and victim, and their relative power. The analogy also holds in terms of the perversity of the propaganda itself. Goebbels would see this article as an exquisite example of journalism in the service of higher civilization.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I hope that the editors of the News-Gazette are proud to be compared to such an illustrious practitioner of rhetorical persuasion.</P></DIV></DIV><BR><BR>-- <BR>This message has been scanned for viruses and <BR>dangerous content by <A href="http://www.mailscanner.info/" rel=nofollow target=_blank><B>MailScanner</B></A>, and is <BR>believed to be clean.
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