Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish,net.politics Subject: Re: Tutu's address Message-ID: <781@gloria.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 20:02:09 EST Article-I.D.: gloria.781 Posted: Sat Jan 5 20:02:09 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 01:26:23 EST References: <95@mit-athena.ARPA> Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Computer Sci. Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.religion.jewish:1236 net.politics:6741 > In a rather disgusting address presented at the Jewish Theological > Seminary, Desmond Tutu showed himself unfit to have received the Nobel > Peace Prize. Tutu showed immense bigoted bias by ignoring the Arab > Jewish dimension the Middle Eastern question. He was upset that Israel > had to drive out some of the Muslims who fought to prevent the > establishment of the state of Israel. Given the treatment which Muslims > traditionally have given to Jews and other non-Muslims, the Muslims in > Israel received much less than they deserved by Middle Eastern > standards. [fade out] Well, I don't know ANY of the facts. But when A says that somebody has been mistreated, and B says they deserve to be mistreated, I hit the 'n' key on B. It's the business of the clergy to speak out against people's being mistreated - whether they "deserve" it or not. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel