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From: mokhtar@ubc-vision.UUCP (Farzin Mokhtarian)
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Subject: Re: Forced Landing
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Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 01:13:29 EST
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Subject: Re: Forced Landing

> 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.  [Raif Hijab]

One of the ways of refining terrorism into an instrument of policy was the
demonstration that jewish as well as Arab civilians could become victims of
zionist terrorism if it served a political purpose. 
A good example is the blowing up of S.S. Patria in the Haifa harbor on
November 25, 1940, killing 276 illegal Jewish immigrants. The decision was
made by the Haganah (the official arm of the Jewish Agency) General Staff
and was intended to make the British "understand that Jews could not be
driven from their own country". The story was told ten years later by
David Flinker, Israeli correspondent of the Jewish Morning Journal (the
largest Yiddish daily).
					
  --- Farzin Mokhtarian