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From: stevens@teklabs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Double standards
Message-ID: <2461@teklabs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Sep-83 17:50:38 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 19 17:50:38 1983
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You say that Israeli people are "common scum" because they allowed a "massacre"
to transpire.  What would you have done if you were in that situation?  Would
you have attacked to prevent the "massacre"?  If you did, wouldn't that be
outright aggression?  I can see the headlines now, "Israel slaughters hundreds
of innocent civilians".   Which isn't very much different from the headlines
that were printed anyway.  It was a no win situation.  The fact stands that
Israel will be chastized whether it chooses to attack or not.  

You say that the Palestinians were exiled from their land.  Have you never
heard of trans-Jordan?  What actually happened is that trans-Jordan was divided
up amongst Israelis and Palestinians.  More than 3/4 of the land (including
Jerusalem) was given to the Palestinians.  Why does no one complain when
King Hussein expels the PLO from Jordan?

Also, you interchange the terms PLO and Palestinians as well as Jews and
Israelis without a second thought.  They are NOT the same.
-- 
Steve Silberberg