XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.tv, rec.arts.startrek.misc
From: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net
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weberm@polaris.net (Ubiquitous) wrote:
> "Leonard Nimoy, the Jewish-American actor who starred as Mr Spock in
> Star Trek, has become the latest celebrity to weigh into the debate
> about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," the BBC reports. This is not a
> joke:
>
> He makes reference to his experience on the fictional Starship
> Enterprise to help express his views. . . .
>
> To illustrate his assertions that "the time for recriminations
> is over" and that "assigning blame over all priorities is
> self-defeating", Mr Nimoy describes an early Star Trek episode
> entitled, Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.
>
> "Two men, half black, half white, are the last survivors of
> their peoples who have been at war with each other for thousands
> of years, yet the Enterprise crew could find no differences
> separating these two raging men," he says. . . .
>
> "But the antagonists were keenly aware of their differences--one
> man was white on the right side, the other was black on the
> right side. And they were prepared to battle to the death to
> defend the memory of their people who died from the atrocities
> committed by the other."
>
> The actor goes on that he does not mean "to belittle the very
> real issues that divide Israelis and Palestinians". However,
> he says, the fictitious scenario shows that "myth can be a
> snare".
>
> But how do we know this was written by the real Spock and not the evil
> bearded one?
What is there in LTBYLB that says their hatred or accusations were a
myth?
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