Re: article on saudi

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "X. J. Scott" <xjscott@e...> wrote:
>
> Good Christmas article from Salon on how the US government formally
and
> unapologetically engages in anti-semitiism at the diplomatic level:
>
> http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2002/12/25/saudi/index.html
>
> >In a letter this past June, Hunter told Pipes that it was "the
duty of the
> foreign service director of personnel to screen all Foreign Service
officers
> applying for service in the KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and to
`tick'
> Jewish officers' names using the letter `J' next to their names, so
that
> selection panels would not select Jewish diplomats for service in
Saudi
> Arabia."
>
> - j

well, how would you go about it? saudi arabia does not allow jews on
its soil. so if you were the one screening foreign service officers
for these jobs, how would you proceed in a way that would be less
anti-semitic??

anyway, i agree with the last paragraph of the salon article . . .

sorry, i'm way behind . . . i may not get a chance to read all the
metatuning messages i missed, as i was only following certain other
lists while in europe . . .