Sander deWaal wrote:

"Bruce J. Richman" said:

In all fairness, that's not how *I* perceive Lionel's view on the
Arab/Israel issue.

That's fine. We can agree to disagree. But did you ont see his posts
in whick he attempted to make a comparison between the Israeli targeted
assassination of Sheik Yassin - a known Hamas militant leader who
personally gave the orders of many suiide bomber attacks - and suicide
bombing. Heck, even McKelvy and I agreed on Lionel's obvious
prejudices here, and as you know, McKelvy and I agree on alomst
nothing.

Got out of bed for this one :-)
The way I read it, was that both events were equal in impact, meaning
that the assasination of Yassin would result in even more violence
from Hamas.
I'm afraid he was right about that one.
If I'm wrong, I'm sure Lionel will correct me.

Nothing to correct Sander you perfectly understood my point. I have
challanged Richman several time to quote a sentence from me to support his
statements... I'm still waiting. ;-)

There is also no disputing the fact that at least since I've been
posting on RAO,no poster other than Lionel has made a habit of talking
about another person's religion in many antiSemitic posts. For the
rest of us (even Krueger & McKelvy, what religion a person practices is
not an issue. For Lionel, it's just another example of his bigotry.

Hmmm.......I have been trashing religion in general, as have several
other regular posters here ( I recall Trevor Wilson and Fella in
particular).
Again my perspective on things: I think Lionel wanted to communicate
that people from different religions should be treated with equal
respect (at lack of a better word).
It may seem strange, but while I think religion mainly brought war and
other **** to this world, I actually agree with the premise that
people should be judged equal, whatever their religion or lack of it
may be.

Again, If I'm wrong about Lionel's posiotion, I'm sure he will correct
me.

In the begining of the '60s, during the economical miracle, Andre Malreaux
was writing :
"the next century will be mystic or will not be"
"Religions will be the major problem of the XXI century"
Now we have to assume his predictions. :-)
IMHO bashing on religions will not bring any improvement.