Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Friday, July 25, 2008 1:26:59 AM
"Civilization is menaced by cultural relativism asserting that every society's customs are equally valid, even when these include killing authors and cartoonists. The Jewish prayer demarcating the holiness of the Sabbath from the secular time of weekdays emphasizes "the difference between darkness and light." I don't suggest that Israel is always right and Arabs always wrong. But am I a racist for believing that last week, Israel showed itself as a beacon of light while the Arabs exhibited a culture of darkness?"

Samir Kuntar - murderer of children
A Murderer Acclaimed as a Hero
By Joel J. Sprayregen
Is there any place other than in the psychopathology of the Arab world that a Kuntar--freed by Israel last week in exchange for mutilated corpses of two abducted soldiers -- could be acclaimed a "hero"?
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