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From: hijab@cad.UUCP (Raif Hijab)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Forced Landing
Message-ID: <52@cad.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 15:35:33 EST
Article-I.D.: cad.52
Posted: Wed Feb 19 15:35:33 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Feb-86 09:05:38 EST
References: <251@aero.ARPA> <11000121@uiucdcsb>
Organization: U. C. Berkeley CAD Group
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Summary: Is it the chicken or the egg?

In article <11000121@uiucdcsb>, midkiff@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU writes:
> 
> >I hadn't realized that Khaddafi had become our standard of permissible
> >international behavior.  If he does it, it must be OK, right?
> -- 
> gil@Cornell.ARPA (ARPAnet) ; gil@CRNLCS (BITNET)
> 
> No,  but when Crapoffi does something, it greatly reduces his right to
> bitch when someone else does the same thing against him.  
> 
> My rationalization is that Israel is at war with terrorists, and if this
> means that Libyan planes arrive at their destination a little late, so
> be it.  Or would you prefer they adopt the tactics of their enemies and
> begin pushing people in wheel chairs into the Mediterranean?

Rather, Israel's enemies have unfortunately begun to use its
tactics. It was Jewish terrorists in the mandate era who
introduced indiscriminate terrorism to the Middle East. They
were the first to refine it into an instrument of policy.
Palestinian terrorists are responding to decades of terror
against them by Israel. Even after the creation of the state
of Israel, Israeli terror did not leave Israel's neighbors
alone. Raids on neighboring villages and killings of dozens
of innocent villagers punctuated the "quiet years" before
1967. The way Israel terrorized the vilages of South Lebanon
with regular shelling, the way Israel hunted and assasinated
prominent Palestinian intellectuals (writers and poets known
not to be involved in violence), and the way Israel today 
terrorizes the Palestinians under occupation and the Lebanese 
in its "security buffer zone" are well documented. 
It is also worthwhile to note that long before the recent
rash of incidents in the mediterranean and Europe, Israel
shot down a Libyan commercial jet in a manner not different
from the Korean airliner incident. As usual, there were plenty
of people to rationalize its action, which caused the death
of over 200 innocent passengers.