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From: warren@pluto.UUCP (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Terrorism
Message-ID: <188@pluto.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Nov-85 02:38:35 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 18 02:38:35 1985
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In article <411@houem.UUCP>, niko@houem.UUCP (N.TSOLAS) writes:
> 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)
1) Enormous exaggeration here. Forcibly exiling a people is very different
from extermination.
2) This is not the government's policy, official or otherwise.  It is
the platform of Kahane's party.  Destruction of Israel. however is the
official policy of the PLO, it's in their charter.

> >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.
Do you know any way to fight a war without killing innocents?  I don't but
unless you're a pacifist there's a world of difference between soldiers
and terrorists who *intend to* kill innocents.

> >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).
Neither the Torah nor the Koran takes this view.

> 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.

I sincerely hope it will not take the Palestinians 2000 years to
find a way to accept the existance of Israel and get about the
business of negotiating.   I am sure that sane people can sit
down together and fix this mess.