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From: lat@stcvax.UUCP (Larry Tepper)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: 'Protest for Syrian Jewry'
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Date: Fri, 23-Mar-84 13:38:48 EST
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> From:
> Dave Sherman
> {allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsrgv!dave
> 
> 3. "Suppression of the elected city governments on the West Bank".
> <<<TURN ON HEAVY SARCASM>>>
> Oh indeed. And all the citizens of Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia,
> Jordan, Libya, Yemen and the other Arab countries have elected governments.
> Yes indeed, Israel was nasty, nasty, nasty to take away democracy
> from a people who had enjoyed it for so long.
> <<<HEAVY SARCASM OFF>>>
>

Israel also denies the right to participate in the national government
to Palestinians in Israel since it was captured in 1948.  These people
were given the same choice of participating in Israel as the American
Indians were given to participate in America.  What a deal!

> 	The mayors and councils which were dismissed were fomenting
> rebellion and opposition to the Israeli government, in land which is
> subject to the jurisdiction and under the control of the Israeli government.
> If the people of the West Bank didn't wish to become under Israeli
> control in the first place, they should have encouraged their (Jordanian)
> government not to attack Israel in 1967.

To this date, most folks agree that it was Israel that attacked first
in 1967.  Judging from the result, it's obvious which side was really
prepared for war.  And no doubt at that point the Israel government
concluded "Gosh, by accident we seem to have captured this land in an
unfortunate but unavoidable conflict.  I guess the only thing to do is
to annex and settle it with our people.  That way the world will know
that we never had designs on it from the beginning."

That's a great argument you have though.  We can just wind back the
clock to 1966 and give all those influential folks in the West Bank
the opportunity to change history.

> If they don't like it now, they are welcome to leave for their own
> country (Jordan), just as Jews throughout the Middle East left their
> homes for their own country (Israel).

Their OWN country?  Prior to 1948, when was there last a nation
called Israel?

BTW, those Middle East Jews are called Sephardim (yes, I do know
you're aware of that, Dave) and from what I've read (a little
sarcasm in his voice) they're really getting the red carpet treatment
in Israel too.
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