[Buddha-l] Buddhism and the "status quo"

[Richard Hayes]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:58:45 -0600
  Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:
  
>it would be a good idea to wipe Israel off the map, or at 
>least (as Ahmadinejad has said in other contexts) set up 
>Israel in Germany rather than in Palestine, since it is 
>the Germans and not the Palestinians who owe the Jews an 
>apology and perhaps some kind of restoration.

I am guessing that Germany may not be ready to give a 
chunk of their turf to the Jews. So, by the powers 
invested in me by Karl Rove, I hereby offer the state of 
Utah to the Jew people of the world as their homeland. It 
has many of the features of Israel. It is dry and dusty 
and sparsely populated. It has a big lake full of water 
too salty to support life. It has a beautiful national 
park called Zion National Park. And it is already 
populated by the Mormons, who claim to be the lost tribe 
of Israel. And Utah has a lot of features that Israel does 
not have in its present location, such as the absence of 
angry Arab Christians and Muslims and the presence of 
immediate neighboring states filled with born-again 
Christians who love the Torah and believe in eyes for eyes 
and teeth for teeth. I admit I have a vested interest in 
this deal. I love a good bagel, and would be delighted to 
live in a state that sort of bordered on a Jewish Utah.


Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico