Heidegger

Hi Michael,
On 05/08/2006, at 11:59 PM, Michael Eldred wrote:
> The Palestinians, and neighbouring Arab states, did not recognize
> Israel when it
> was proclaimed in 1948.
Apparently in 1947 Chief Rabbi Deshinski informed the United Nations
of his opposition to the proposed formation of the state of Israel,
and actual history is as always much more complicated […]

On 03/06/2006, at 10:29 PM, That Pete wrote:
> Right. I’ll abstain as long as the discussion is merely cover for
> beating-up-on-the-zionist-entity.
Are you seriously accusing me of being anti-Zionist Pete? Or anti-
semitic? Or are you intending to imply both?
I’d be very much interested to hear your justification for that
accusation.
Regards,
Malcolm
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Dr Malcolm Riddoch
Electronic Arts
School of Communications and Contemporary […]

— Malcolm Riddoch wrote:
> Universal: we are all constrained by relations of power that
> constantly override any moral considerations, there is no
> ‘exceptionalism’.
OK. Sounds like you’ve been reading Machiavelli. Depending
what you mean by exceptionalism, that’s either obvious (that
no group is exempt from nature by divine right, or any other
metaphysics) or arguably wrong (that […]

On 26/05/2006, at 9:19 AM, Anthony Crifasi wrote:
> I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone
> has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth
> and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once
> despised I now praise unreservedly.
> (Albert Einstein, quoted in Time Magazine, […]