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Sat Jan 17 18:57:47 GMT 2009

Dear Dr. Richey

Just after reading your note about anti-Semitism, I received an email from a
retired university professor with the following website.  I am reluctant to
send this with the list but I thought it worth sharing with you.

I have a faculty appointment and am concerned that many of my colleagues are
losing touch with reality.  Though this might drive home what I have heard
you and others say.  I believe that there are consequences to being silent.
We cannot let our 1st Amendment rights destroy the fabric of society,
especially the future, the youth of America.

The following is a sad commentary of where we are today.

http://www.terrorismawareness.org/jihad-academia/

You need not apologize for your comments.

Richard Besserman, M.D.

On 1/17/09 10:43 AM, "Stephen Richey" <stephen.richey at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wasn't intending on labeling him as such.  It was just that there were
> several off list comments to me from different members about how
> "anti-Semitic" those who objected (especially Dr. Palencia) to the war were
> being.  It was meant as a notice that the way he was wording his responses
> were being taken by some as to be biased against the Israelis while ignoring
> the actions of a large portion of the Palestinian population.
> 
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 7:02 AM, JMG <cafritio at online.no> wrote:
> 
>> Stephen Richey wrote:
>> 
>>> As someone said before, you're not going to change the opinions of anyone
>>> so
>>> can you please stop being so insufferable please? I was kind enough not to
>>> continue pointing out the flaws in your stance (ignoring the fact that
>>> this
>>> is a two-way fight and not the one-sided genocide as you seem to want to
>>> paint it) so I would ask you do the same, lest you continue to come across
>>> as some manner of bigoted anti-Semite.
>>> 
>>> So far as I can tell, that impression is coming as an inadvertent result
>>> of
>>> your desire to want to assign blame to the side that happens to be winning
>>> the battle based on the biased reports of the media which are based on the
>>> biased reports of the Palestinians and the limp-wristed wusses at the UN.
>>> 
>>> It's war.  People are going to die. Everyone just needs to learn to accept
>>> that fact and not start whining when the shooting starts because diplomacy
>>> either failed or was not given an adequate chance (the former being the
>>> case
>>> here).
>>> 
>>> Now let's just drop this and move on.
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Eduardo Palencia
>>> <palenciahccml at gmail.com>wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> I send you the editorial of the last issue of Lancet, fixing its
>>>> position about the barbarities committed for the israeli army against
>>>> the health of the civilian palestinian population. They are
>>>> intolerable, if some rest of humanitarian feelings remains.
>>>> 
>>>> Eduardo
>>>> --
>>>> Eduardo Palencia Herrejón
>>>> Jefe de Servicio de Medicina Intensiva
>>>> Hospital "Infanta Leonor", Madrid
>>>> C/ Gran vía del Este, 80
>>>> 28031 Madrid, Spain
>>>> Tfno: +34619204428
>>>> epalenciah at salud.madrid.org
>>>> 
>>>> 2009/1/16 Gad Shaked <shakedg at bgu.ac.il>:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Lies again. There is a humanitarian corridor every day for 3 hours.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> Usually the Hamas terrorists continue firing and launching rockets during
>>>> this period. The palestinians should have considered this scenario eight
>>>> years when they kept attacking innocent civilians in the towns and
>>>> villages
>>>> adjacent to the Gaza strip, More important is the good news of this
>>>> morning
>>>> that the 7 year old boy sustainig a critical  head injury from a rocket
>>>> that
>>>> exploded next to him is improving. He underwent decompressive craniotomy
>>>> as
>>>> part of his damage control surgery. Another woman is also doing well
>>>> after a
>>>> laparotomy for multiple small and large bowel shrapnel perforations.
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
>> Be so kind as to avoid labeling someone as an anti-semite on the basis that
>> they are apalled by the actions of the Israely army. There is a big
>> difference between disliking the actions of a countrys army (in this case
>> mainly made up by jewish folks) and disliking a whole people because of
>> their religion and ethnicity. --
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