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From: niko@houem.UUCP (N.TSOLAS)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Terrorism
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Date: Fri, 15-Nov-85 18:53:34 EST
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>I have never really experienced, but let me point out Zionists reacted
>before the State of Israel existed.  (Yes, I know the circumstances
>are not identical, but the comparison is still revealing.)

There is no comparison whatsoever.

>The Jewish underground did engage in violence, but only against legitimate
>military targets including the British Army and various armed Arab groups.
>There were at most a few deviations from this policy on the part of small
>sub-groups.  These few cases (i.e. attacks on innocent bystanders) were
>strongly denounced by most of the underground and denied by those groups
>accused of them.  There was an explicit ideology, "tohar haneshek", i.e.
>"purity of arms", against targeting the innocent.

I know and I would like to point out that, perhaps, only the
Jewish people can understand the plight of the Palestinians.
They have been through worst situations and even here, until
recently, they were second class citizens.
I have met some and I heard that in Israel there is a minority
of Israelis who sympathize with them. But the government's
official policy for solving the Palestinian problem is by
extermination.( Don't tell me about the people who live in the
West Bank. It is a matter of time for them to leave their homes)

>The PLO, on the other hand, has made innocent bystanders (children on
>a school bus, an American tourist in a wheelchair, etc.) their primary
>targets.  The groups involved in these attacks proudly take credit,
>and are never denounced by anyone connected in any way with the PLO.

How many Palestinian children and innocent bystanders have been
killed by Israeli bombings? If you beleive in "an eye for eye ..."
then I think you would agree that the odds are against them.

>Thus, in circustances that were at least as trying, the Zionist
>underground was able to refrain from the sort of tactics used by
>the PLO.  These tactics are evil and **even if you sympathize with
>the plight of the Palestinians**, the actions of the PLO deserve
>condemnation.

Good and evil are "relative" concepts (depending who you talk to).
But you should also condemn the actions of the government of Israel.
PLOs will always exist no matter if all the Palestinian children
are killed. History proves it. If the Jewish people waited for
2000 years the Palestinians can wait too.