[Peace-discuss] Gill on lebanese war

[Wendy Edwards]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 12:44:57PM -0500, Chas. 'Mark' Bee wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Karen Medina" <kmedina at uiuc.edu>
> To: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Gill on lebanese war
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> >>the Israeli response has been woefully excessive. - David Gill
> >
> >Dr. Gill's response brings up a question in my mind. How do we get 
> >politicians to make the stronger statements? At some point, they all are 
> >afraid of offending people. But the good ones entered politics because 
> >they had strong feelings.
> 
>  That's a great question, especially following on Carl's transparent 
> treachery.

>  Let's take a moment to be honest about what we just witnessed.  Carl 
>  didn't ask Dr. Gill for a just-between-us assessment - he specifically 
> asked him for a statement to be disseminated publicly before an election.  
> Then he publicly alligatored Dr. Gill in the anticipated forum for 
> complying, complaining he hadn't taken enough risk - a filthy dirty trick 
> on Carl's part.  I doubt that's the kind of home base support that will 
> make it easier to make the tough stands for peace.
> 
>  I think Dr. Gill will be much better served by ignoring Carl's offers as a 
> go-between in the future, and communicating with AWARE directly - that is, 
> if he still thinks there's any real support to be had here at all.  If 
> there is, you should probably let him know pretty quick. 
 
Um, I think a better term for Carl's email is "verbosity" rather than
"transparent treachery."  David Gill isn't stupid, and calling Israel
criminal would open him up to charges of antisemitism.  I'm really
doubting that Gill cares about being "alligatored" by Carl.  So the
whole exchange was really quite predictable.

Wendy