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From: mokhtar@ubc-vision.UUCP (Farzin Mokhtarian)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Islamic tolerance (is not the subject)
Message-ID: <68@ubc-vision.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 00:38:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 24 00:38:23 1986
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tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum) writes:
 
> Israel does not arm the terrorists.  Iran (Libya, Syria, etc.) arm the
> terrorists.  Are you suggesting that Israel gives arms to Iran so that
> Iran can give them to terrorists?  Pretty despicable accusation, if
> you really mean it.  It's amazing what contortions you will go through
> to blame Israel for everything and anything.

I don't know whether it is Israel's intention that those arms be given to 
the terrorists or not but Israel *knows* that some of them will be given
to the terrorists.
I think you are telling me that this is fine because it is not Israel which
determines what will be done with the arms.
    
BUT there is a dual side to this.
    
All countries (such as Libya, Syria, Iran) which run "terrorist camps" on
their soil are just teaching certain military skills to the people in those
camps. Similar camps exist in the U. S. But people who run them don't
determine what their graduates do with their skills. Only when they use
their skills to kill civilians, do they become terrorists.
  
I am not happy with this argument, are you?
    Farzin Mokhtarian