At 5:23 PM -0400 7/4/02, David Griffin wrote:
>Bill Bartlett responds to a criticism of Martin only heeding Zionist
>conceptions..... by quoting Bejamin Netanyahu!!!!
I was responding to your question "Which is more important to Israel, then, Martin? The state or its religion?" But in particular to your assertion that the perceived threat to Israel has nothing to do with religion.
>He takes the right-wing former Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu's statement
>on face value that "the religion" is threatened--
Not "the religion", but the status of Israel as a Jewish state.
Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas