From: Integral World [f.visser3@chello.nl] Sent: zaterdag 3 maart 2007 14:37 To: f.visser3@chello.nl Subject: [personal] The Middle East 3 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 185 Amsterdam, March 3, 2007 WILBER WATCH BLOG: "2006: WHAT A YEAR!" http://wilberwatch.blogspot.com/ The Middle East debate on Integral World continues: DISPELLING THE MYTHS: SECOND REPLY TO RAY HARRIS - Jeff Meyerhoff Ray Harris responded with impressive speed to my essay about his views on the Arab-Israeli conflict, although the quickness of his response is due, in no small part, to the complete lack of documentation he offers. While there are some areas of agreement which I note, I, for the most part, am reduced to the laborious task of marshalling the scholarly evidence which, in most cases, directly contradicts his confidently undocumented assertions or lends balance to the fewer true, but partial, statements he makes... Harris and I can agree on the dangers of the extremist fundamentalism of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim kind. What's odd about Harris's writings on Islam and the Arabs is his desire to make a large-scale judgment about it and them; that there is something about the belief and the people that make them somehow bad, or tend towards badness. And yet, at other times, he says he's only talking about the Islamic and Arab extremists. But I wonder why, at any given time, there are more extremists or more moderates of any religion? The question between us is: in what proportion do we assign responsibility for the Arab-Israeli conflict? The answer to that requires sifting through the historical record. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/meyerhoff8.html Other additions to the Reading Room: 03/03/07: The German translation by Hape Lin of Ray Harris "Reply to Meyerhoff" has been added to the German Section. 03/03/07: A language navigation bar has been added at the top of the Welcome page, displaying the 14 languages currently available at Integral World. 02/26/07: The German translation by Hape Lin of Jeff Meyerhoff's reply Ray Harris' called "The Rationalization of Domination" has been added to the German Section. If you know other people interested in this IW Newsletter, please forward this mail to them. Thanks. To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UPDATE your email address or UNSUBSCRIBE, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/login.php To go to the Newsletter Archive, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/newsletter.html