[Buddha-l] Jayarava's rave on the IE lingos

[jkirk]

It's not just  "a neat trick" as you say, Dan. This country
subsidizes the small piece of land you refer to with billions of
bucks each year.

That being said, I shan't continue this as a debate about the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Nuff said (by me anyway).
Joanna

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Joanna,


> What I wrote was: "...most warlike these days..." (emphasis on
these 
> days)

I'd challenge the claim on this reemphasized basis. It expresses
a misleading myth of our day, viz. that the most infernal and
important and entrenched conflict these days is over a tiny piece
of real estate on the eastern mediterranean -- a neat trick to
distract from all the other infernal, important, entrenched and
endless conflicts elsewhere, of which this particular one is only
a recent joiner due to the ambience and tradition of the
neighborhood (that was Israel's initiation hazing into the
neighborhood; the day it was declared a state, five arab nations
declared war on it and attacked -- though the myth today might
have you assume the inverse). There have been interminable
conflicts within, and especially on the peripheries, of the
Islamic world since Islam's inception (check your Quran). As for
linguistic basis, most Muslims from Iran eastward, speak IE
languages (Persian, Urdu, etc.), not semitic -- so the claim of
linguistic association to violence fails on that account as well.

As for Buddhist content, there is nothing more Buddhist than
exposing false myths for what they are.

Dan

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