tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387550.post108540716902981775..comments2023-07-01T08:55:59.065-05:00Comments on City of Brass: RafahAziz P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11825546047253660903noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387550.post-1085744248126253992004-05-28T06:37:00.000-05:002004-05-28T06:37:00.000-05:00Mike, you've registered for Blogger, now you just ...Mike, you've registered for Blogger, now you just need to start a blog. I can't even begin to take the six hours necessary to reply to your insane lengthy screeds. If you'd keep your points relatively focused it would be less of a chore to discuss things with you. <br /><br />I wil say that you've misunderstood teh Diana Moon question link, but its not important. You pretty much rotinely miss the point and then leap to insinuations of intent. Its tiresome and there's no sense from me that you want to be civil, you just want me to give you rope. <br /><br />TheBit, the difference is that anyone can become a citizen of the USA, irrespective of race, tehnicity, or religion, and become a full-fledged member of teh society. There are no permanent second classes. I think that drawing a distinction between "alien" and "citizen" to analogize the Jew-Arab status in Israel is a pretty weak argument and also largely misses my point. It's not clear to me what solution you are proposing that would correct the injustice you've described. What woudl be better in your view?<br /><br />(BTW< would love to have an email discussion with you on this)Aziz P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11825546047253660903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387550.post-1085735832474828812004-05-28T04:17:00.000-05:002004-05-28T04:17:00.000-05:00"I believe it is something better because it can b..."I believe it is something better because it can be a homeland for Jews, as well as any other ethnic or religious group, without recourse to legal exclusions or preferences or defining values in a proprietary sense."<br /><br />In your bombast, Aziz, you forgot to mention that non-Americans, aliens, are excluded; mainly because the idea of citizen/alien is a fundamental concept of the modern nation-state.thabethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15867454416974172208noreply@blogger.com