Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxv.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxv!tischler From: tischler@ihuxv.UUCP (Mark D. Tischler) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: 'Protest for Syrian Jewry' - (nf) Message-ID: <693@ihuxv.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 16:19:05 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxv.693 Posted: Wed Mar 21 16:19:05 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 02:07:23 EST References: <6189@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 25 Paul, There's no place to go to protest those things except Israel, where their democracy allows demonstrations and protests. You can't say that about any of the Arab countries whom you seem to fervently back. Israel's occupation of Lebanon was initiated for reasons of self-defense, namely to remove the PLO, who by the way was occupying southern Lebanon for 12 years. The bombing of the Iraqi nuclear plant was also in the name of self-defense. Don't tell me you think they were only going to use that plant for nuclear power. Arab countries just don't think logically--they think emotionally, thus leading to the conclusion that that plant was going to be used to build nuclear bombs to annihilate Israel (thanks to the French for their idiocy in providing the Iraqis with the necessary materials). On the issue of the West Bank city governments. Do you think the United States was any less subduing when they occupied various countries in the Pacific during World War II. If you do, you better read up on wartime tactics, because all warring nations do it when they occupy a territory. The difference, however, is that the Israelis are much more understanding and willing to negotiate than any Arab nation would ever be--they still cut off limbs as punishment--talk about being in the Dark Ages!!!!! Mark Tischler ihnp4!ihuxv!tischler