Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site grkermit.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!grkermit!larry From: larry@grkermit.UUCP (Larry Kolodney) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Holy Land Message-ID: <457@grkermit.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Jun-83 09:02:47 EDT Article-I.D.: grkermit.457 Posted: Tue Jun 28 09:02:47 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jun-83 12:30:35 EDT References: <1690@floyd.UUCP> Organization: GenRad Inc., Concord, MA Lines: 18 From Andy Tennenbaum: To refrain from calling the country Israel is a serious affront to Jews. For some strange reason, Israel is called "the Holy Land" quite often by the Cristian mass media, I don't know why. Why is it offensive, and why is it more offensive than saying that Jesus is the messiah and that we have it all wrong? -- Larry Kolodney (USENET) decvax!genrad!grkermit!larry allegra!linus!genrad!grkermit!larry harpo!eagle!mit-vax!grkermit!larry (ARPA) rms.g.lkk@mit-ai