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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish,net.politics
Subject: Re: Tutu's address
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Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 20:02:09 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  5 20:02:09 1985
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> 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
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