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From: martillo@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Yakim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: Frenchmen getting bombed, why them?
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Date: Sun, 28-Sep-86 02:27:40 EDT
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In article <1343@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> phgun@beryl.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Himawan Gunadhi) writes:
>I just want to point out that according to the papers I read
>(the SF Chronicle), the terrorists responsible for the recent
>bombings are *Maronite Christians* who oppose the 
>Gemayel regime. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the prisoner
>who is the primary focus of their demands is certainly a
>Maronite and so are his 2 brothers who are the prime French
>suspects.

Fanatic identification of marginal ethnic groups with oppressors is
far from unusual in the world especially when there are lots of
Western intellectuals around to warp minds.  Georges Ibrahim
Abdallah's mentality has some similarity with outlook of Rosa
Luxemburg who was able in the early 20th to deny that there was any
especially Jewish suffering in Poland or Eastern Europe.

Cecil Hourani is an interesting case.  He started out as an Christian
Arab Nationalist and spokesman for the Palestinian cause.  However,
after associating with Muslim fanatics for 20-30 years, he became a
Lebanese Nationalist and admirer of the Bashir Gemayel approach to
dealing with Islam.  Nowadays Hourani expresses a great deal of
sympathy with Zionism.  Give him five years and he will become a major
non-Jewish Zionist spokesman.