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From: meth@csd2.UUCP (Asher Meth)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Middle East, Oil and the costs of Militarism
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Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 18:39:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 12 18:39:00 1985
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Hisham Sweillam writes :

>The fact is Arabs in the west bank and elsewhere are being evacuated
>from their homes to make room for new settlements.

I've heard this claim used many a time. In some cases it may be true (I can't
prove it to be totally false). However, I can name a number of settlements for
which this statament is totally false. 

Many settlements are built (as I wrote in a previous posting) on empty, barren,
rocky hills, that have not been inhabited for years and years (I am tempted to 
write centuries). No one has been living on these hills; no one was displaced 
from these hills when the new settlement was built. In fact, AFTER some of these
settlements were built, some Arabs came along and built houses (actually, they 
are mansions) across the road to try to contain the growth of the settlement. 
And do all of you know where these Arabs get the money to build these fancy 
multi-level homes ? From the oil-revenues of the rich Arab kingdoms and their 
sheiks - including Saudi Arabia. A typical example of this "house across the 
road from the settlement" is the house across the road from the entrance to 
Beit-El, which is about 20 (I'm not sure of the exact figure) kilometers north 
of Jerusalem.

Just to name a few settlements built on empty, unpopulated hills : Beit-El,
Shiloh, Ma'ale Levonah, Giv'at Levonah (now called 'Eilee), Mattityahu.

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I recently heard a statement attributed to Ariel Sharon about "how to solve the
problem of rock-throwing from the 'refugee camps' at moving vehicles." The
statement was made after numerous attacks (rocks, and bullets, too) on the
busses travelling the Jerusalem-Hebron road on their way to Gush Etzion and
Kiryat 'Arbah. The name of the camp is Daheishah (sp ?). 

He is reported to have said - after any such incident, raze the
first row of houses closest to the road. If the attacks persist, raze the next
row. Society has a way (or at least used to have a way) of convincing its
fellow man who is not following the rules to conform. The neighbors would quite
understandably be very unhappy at the prospect of having their houses razed,
and would not allow the stone-throwers, etc. to use their homes as havens or as
bunkers from which to attack, or to retreat to at will. Thus, those elements
would be banished from the community, not allowing them the opportunity to have
the neighborhood destroyed due to their non-societal and anti-societal actions.

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Any comments ? or opposing points of view ? (as they say on the radio after an
editorial; I expect that there will be.)

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Asher Meth ....... meth@nyu-csd2.arpa ....... allegra!cmcl2!csd2!meth