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From: warren@pluto.UUCP (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Terrorism
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Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 01:05:55 EST
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Summary: what the original objection was about

In article <683@k.cs.cmu.edu>, tim@k.cs.cmu.edu (Tim Maroney) writes:
>4 Even assuming that Mr. Tsolas is correct, in the English language
>4 requiring people to leave their homes in *not* extermination.
>3 True, but forcible exile leads to extermination.
>2 The Jews are themselves evidence that this is not true.
> Are we talking about the same Jews?  I would say that Jewish history,
> particularly in this century, furnishes a great deal of evidence that exile
> DOES lead to extermination attempts.  However, even if it were not so, the
> Jews have suffered greatly from repeated exiles, and the history of Judaism
> demonstrates graphically the horror of forced migration.  Can you really
> repeat this process for your enemies in good conscience?

The objection to Tsolas was that he said that the policy of Israel was
to exterminate the Arabs in territories under its control.  He brought
as evidence that Israel plans to expel them.  There were two objections:
1) There is a world of difference between exile and genocide.
2) The government of Israel supports neither.