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From: mr@homxb.UUCP (M.RINDSBERG)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Islamic tolerance (is not the subject)
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Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 22:35:14 EST
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> > Israel views Iraq (a potentially powerful Arab country) as a greater enemy
> > in the long run than Iran, a non-Arab country which under the Shah had
> > friendly relations with Israel and was Israel's main oil supplier.  Israel
> > has always viewed the armies of the Arab states as the main threat to its
> > existence, not terrorism.  Israel would not like Iraq to win the war.
> > Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan
> 1. Iran under Khomeini is very different from Iran under the shah. No matter
>    what  the state of the past relations between Iran and Israel, it doesn't
>    apply to the present day Iran.
> 2. It is Khomeini who has announced his intentions to liberate Palestine when
>    he gets Iraq out of the way not Saddaam Hosein. Do you have proof that he
>    intends to do otherwise?
> 3. Israel is militarily superior to the combined armies of *all* the Arab

We should only hope so.

>    countries. I don't believe that fear of a possible Iraqi victory would
>    convince Israel to arm the ayatollah.
> 4. I agree that terrorism does not threaten the existence of Israel. Is this

Not the existence, but the safety of the people within.

>    a good enough reason for Israel to arm the terrorists? What about all the
>    people who are killed by the terrorists? 
> 						 Farzin Mokhtarian
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