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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Let's get it straight.
Message-ID: <116@unc.unc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 16:56:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  9 16:56:08 1985
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>>      This lawsuit was just one more act of terrorism perpetrated by the
>> illegal Jewish Defense League and its minions.  They couldn't BOMB the 
>> I.H.R. out of existance, so now it's lawsuit time.  
>> 
>>      (On July 4, 1984, the library of the I.H.R. was forcibly entered
>> and firebombed by a professional arsonist.  The Jewish Defense League 
>> provided the police with the name of the arsonist.  J.D.L. members were
>> photographed dancing in the ashes.  Prior to the fire, the library had
>> been the target of vandalism and picketing by the J.D.L.  Recently,
>> the J.D.L. has taken credit for harassing workers and officials of the
>> I.H.R.  And this is America????)

In article <691@cvl.UUCP> arig@cvl.UUCP (Ari Gross) writes:
>   Let's here it for the JDL!!! Jews were silent during the holocaust
>and paid a dear price for it ; should we make that same mistake again?
>As former Prime Minister Begin writes in "The Revolt": Jews used to
>say "we think, therefore we are", and were nevertheless turned into
>bars of soap . Let us say instead "we fight, therefore we are". If
>there is one thing that Jewish people should have learned from the
>holocaust it is not to sit passively by and let the world determine
>your fate; don't turn the other cheek when confronted by hatred and
>anti-semitism. To the Don Blacks of this world and their ilk let us say
>NEVER AGAIN.
>                                    Ari Gross

An enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.  Let's not
cheer the JDL just because this time they attacked even worse scum.
I've never heard that the JDL ever renounced its founder, Rabbi Meir Kahane,
a fascist who generates so much outrage in Israel with his bigoted politics.

	Frank Silbermann