Orest
Slepokura
writes from Alberta on Saturday, May
13, 2000
Committing
Insecticide
DEBORAH Lipstadt’s reference to your person as a “bug” and a “fly” and her adversarial relationship with you as matter of “pest control” (Asian Times, April 18, 2000) recalls other uses of such insect metaphors employed by her co-religionists to describe their opponents.
There are several precedents. Here are just a couple.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, at the opening of a West Bank tourist site, on rioting Palestinians:
“We say to them from the heights of this
mountain and from the perspective of thousands of years
of history that they are like grasshoppers compared to
us” (Newsweek, April 11,
1988, page 21).
General Rafael Eitan, the onetime Israeli military
Chief of Staff, was somewhat more vicious when he referred to Palestinians under siege as “cockroaches in a bottle” (New York Times, August 5,
1985, page 1).
See: It is not at all unusual. Indeed, Abba Eban
has decried the use of such ugly metaphors for being (ironic, what!) the “language of extermination.”
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