Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site idec.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!idec!alaa From: alaa@idec.UUCP (Alaa Zeineldine) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Re: Terrorism Inc. Message-ID: <511@idec.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 15:32:50 EDT Article-I.D.: idec.511 Posted: Thu Oct 10 15:32:50 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Oct-85 07:30:40 EDT References: <487@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP> <14@andromeda.UUCP> Reply-To: alaa@idec.UUCP (Alaa Zeineldine) Distribution: net Organization: STC IDEC, Stevenage, UK Lines: 50 Xpath: stc stc-a Dave, In article <14@andromeda.UUCP> dave@andromeda.UUCP (Dave Bloom) you wrote: >... >First, let's define terrorism... >... >But how can you call the Israeli airstrike of Tunis terrorism? It has... What would you call a millitary action taken by a state in another country where it has neither jurisdiction nor permission? >...been a long-standing publicly known policy of Israel to strike.. Does publicity change the nature of a deed, be it evil or noble? >PLO strong-holds (not Palestinian civilians mind you... Once they've been driven out of their homes, from their refugee camps and from their second refugee camps! >...in retalliation of >violent acts perpetrated against Israel. Tunisia knew the risk it was >taking by harboring a terrorist organization.... it has since paid the >penalty. If we set our mind back to the Beirut seige of 1982, we may remember that when Tunisia agreed to accept parts of the PLO, it was part of an agreement to defuse an explosive situation which would have otherwise ended in a bloody battle; when this agreement was reached many people around the world (no doubt including many Israelis) sighed a deep sigh of relief. This was an agreement that would not have been implemented without Israel's consent, and one in which America was a principle party. So, we should remember that when Tunisia accepted the role of host to the PLO, it was doing so as a peace-maker, and we should also remember that other countries refused to have anything to do with the matter in fear of an internal destablising effect that they thought the presence of the Palestinians could cause. Tunisia has always been a very peaceful, moderate country. But as you say, it has paid the penalty, but this penalty was not for accepting the Palestinians as you suggest, but it was the penalty which Israel decides someone will have to pay when it finds an opportunity to demonstrate its dominance. -- Alaa Zeineldine ...seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!idec!alaa STC IDEC, Stevenage, Herts SG1 1YB, England +44 (0)438 726161 Ext 8938