Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 26/04/2005 14:30, Vadim Cherny wrote:

> I assume you would not argue about the affirmative action rectifying the
> sins two hundred years old - even almost four hundred years old, if we count
> from the first shipment of slaves. Why should not Israelities rectify the
> past sins against them?
>
>  
The danger of this line of argument is if it is brought into modern 
politics, if the government and people of Israel justify oppression of 
their enemies on the grounds of what the (supposed) ancestors of those 
enemies might (or might not) have done to the Jews centuries ago.

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Peter Kirk
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