AtD resonances in IV
rich
richard.romeo at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 12:12:48 CDT 2009
fwiw..
could say the same for the Roma, the Irish Travellers but don't work
for the Saudis--Ibn Saud and his roving band of nomadic tribes
eventually bedding down permanently
and now there's Israel--there are a good number of Jews who never
believed in the Zionist movement, creation of a state, etc.
On 9/28/09, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Came across this passage last night - it's even got those snakey hair ropes.
>
> "What is the modern state," Yitzhak declared, "but a suburban
> house-lot taken up to a larger scale? Anti-Semitism flows directly
> from the suburban fear of those always on the move, who set up camp
> for a night, or pay rent, unlike the Good Citizen who believes he
> 'owns' his home, although it is more likely to be owned by a bank,
> perhaps even a Jewish bank. Everyone must live in a simply connected
> space with an unbroken line around it. Some put hair ropes, to keep
> snakes out. Any who live outside property-lines of any scale are
> automatically a threat to the suburban order and by extension the
> State. Conveniently, Jews have this history of statelessness." AtD 185
>
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