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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL)
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Subject: Re: Protesting the Beirut Hostage Crisis
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Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 19:10:27 EDT
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Please forgive me if this is a duplicate posting. I got an error message
on the first posting, so I am trying again.

> From Raju Bhatt:
> > I don't buy that the
> > Israelis were going to release the Shiites that they had soon.  This
> > looks like a public ploy on their part and you know how the Israelis
> > are with the American Media!
> 
> From Bill Tanenbaum
>  > For your information, the Israelis originally had about 1100 mostly
>  > Shiite prisoners from Lebanon.  They had already released over 300
>  > unilaterally BEFORE the hijacking.  Of course, this could all have
>  > just been made up by the American media. -)
> 
> From Raju Bhatt:
> Those Israelis are the nicest!  After grabbing a whole mess of them, giving
> back a few of them should make them happy right?  The Shiites should be
> grateful they got that many back!  How kind and merciful Israeli Army! 
> The Israeli government always plays to the American media, to show how
> kind and merciful it is with these "They all look the same" Shiites.
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Dear Raju:
Your response is totally irrelevant to my point. All I was doing was responding
to your incorrect assertion that Israel did not intend to release the
Lebanese prisoners.  I never said that the arrest of the Shiites was
justified.  Your outburst totally ignores my point.  Don't let your hatred
of Israel blind you to facts.  I personally heard Nabih Berri say on T. V.
that Israel was going to release the prisoners anyway.  Of course, he too
is probably in the pay of those nasty Zionists-).

By the way, you are correct in your response to Ephraim Silverberg that
he cannot tell Lebanese Shiites from Palestinians.  His posting reeked
of ignorance. Yours reeks of hatred.
-- 
Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan