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From: baparao@uscvax.UUCP (Bapa Rao)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Rajiv Gandhi takes a cue from the ultra-Zionists
Message-ID: <178@uscvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 31-Dec-85 16:31:43 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 31 16:31:43 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 3-Jan-86 05:38:04 EST
References: <11260@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1051@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Reply-To: baparao@usc-cse.UUCP (Bapa Rao)
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Organization: CS&CE Depts, U.S.C., Los Angeles, CA
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Summary: Don't be ridiculous!

In article <1051@brl-tgr.ARPA> matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt ) writes:
>> The Indian government quelled these riots with an agreement, which,
>> according to the newspaper, included these provisions:  1.  Immigrants
>> from after 1971 would be expelled from Assam, in some cases back to
>> Bangladesh.  This affects between 500,000 and 1 million people.
>> (i.e. about the population of the West Bank)  2.  Immigrants from
>> between 1966 and 1971 (tens of thousands more) may remain but lose
>> the right to vote for ten years.
>
>> I look forward to a justification of these events from certain persons
>> who criticise the Israeli government for pursuing a rather similar
>> (perhaps even more moderate!) policy.....
>
>> andy
>
>1.  Israel is not pursuing ANYTHING LIKE such a policy.  It is Rabbi
>Meir Kahane who proposes taking away the votes from non-Jews (not just
>Arabs), and ejecting ONLY THOSE ARABS who refuse to live without political
>rights -- and Rabbi Kahane is banned from radio-TV, and the new anti-
>Kahane laws passed in the Knesset will make it illegal for anyone advocating
>his policies even to run for office.
>
>2.  The concept of throwing out everyone who immigrated after a given date
>is from the Palestine National Covenant -- all Jews who came (or whose
>ancestors came) to Palestine after some given year (1917?  1947?) would
>have to go back where they (or their ancestors) came from.  It's not fair
>to attribute to the Israelis the ideas of their principal adversaries.
>
>                                       -- Matt Rosenblatt


Dear vocal debaters of Israeli policy:

I am at a loss to understand what earthly logical connection can possibly
exist between the following two situations:

1. The adjudication of the legal status of Bangladeshi (and erstwhile East
Pakistani) citizens who ILLEGALLY entered the state of Assam (which is an
integral part of the Republic of India) without the proper documents and
permits (such as passports and visas) normally required by ALL countries of
prospective immigrants.

2. The policy (benevolent or otherwise) pursued by Israel towards the Arab
population (and the descendants of that population) that existed in its
territory from a time prior to the constitution of modern Israel as a soverign
state.

Debate Israel as loudly and often you please, but do try and refrain from
dragging in analogies that simply don't apply. Seeking to make points
without the benefit of facts reflects poorly on you and the cause that you
so shrilly advocate. Get rid of the silly header and citations about Rajiv
Gandhi's Assam policy; you'll be the better for it.

And please, don't trouble yourselves to explain this "connection" to my
mailbox; my mind is already made up that no such connection exists.

I wish everyone a happy and prosperous 1986.

                                                        --Bapa Rao.