Re: The Truth About What The Palestinians REALLY Want

In <1i7hnie.1vaff0b4wdgchN%real-not-anti-spam-address@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> real-not-anti-spam-address@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (D.M. Procida) writes:

Steve Goldfarb <slg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Calling them *extremists* is precisely apt. I don't see all Jews or
Christians as the same as the extremist elements within each group. The
same with Muslims.

Yeah, but "extremist" is so vague. Aren't the Amish "extremists"?
Chareidim? Buddhist monks? It doesn't imply anything about their motives,
actions, etc., just that they're "extreme" whatever that means.

An extremist is someone prepared to take or advocate extreme actions
towards their ends. Bhuddist monks in favour of suicide bombings would
be extremists.

Oh, you mean like Gandhi or Martin Luther King... Or Martin Luther for
that matter. Or of course the Lubavitcher Rebbe, he was pretty extreme --
the lengths he went to to bring Jews into the fold far, far exceeded
anything "mainstream" Jewish organizations did.

Certainly they're all extremists, just like Osama Bin Ladin is an
extremist.

See what I mean? It's just not a particularly descriptive word - it's
really a euphemism.

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