tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post226024446066901091..comments2024-03-14T02:22:26.957+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: 'Cavemen' accuse national poet of racismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-50404720617184596042015-01-21T00:37:05.552+00:002015-01-21T00:37:05.552+00:00I must say that Sukari was rather clever by alludi...I must say that Sukari was rather clever by alluding to Plato's notion of the limited perception of men in a cave.<br /><br />Has Sukari read more Plato than Zakh? <br /><br />I for one am not especially impressed with what I have seen of Zakh's poetry. So the Ministry of Education can get rid of it on esthetic grounds. <br /><br />My position is that the distinction between western European culture and middle eastern culture is rather artificial, especially if we look at the influence of the ancient East on what is called the culture of classical Greece. At the same time, the Arab conquest and Islam did much to degrade the culture of the lands that they conquered, although non-Muslims often far surpassed the Muslims when Western education was offered to them, as by the Alliance, etc.<br />German philosophers like Kant and Hegel spilled a lot of ink in deprecating the culture of the East [ME], even in ancient times when middle eastern lands were centers of civilization. Zakh was likely influenced by the arguments of Kant, Hegel, Voltaire and their ilk. It should also be pointed out that at least one researcher has shown that Kant and Hegel not only deprecated the East but put Jews on the lowest level of eastern culture. That is, they wrote that Jews were inferior even in the middle eastern context. Even in antiquity.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-41022822814631702752015-01-20T13:14:46.280+00:002015-01-20T13:14:46.280+00:00Being a racist is okay if you're a pro-Arab le...Being a racist is okay if you're a pro-Arab leftist.Mighty Garnel Ironhearthttp://garnelironheart.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com