Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!dave From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics Subject: Re: Protesting the Beirut Hostage Crisis Message-ID: <692@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 00:04:38 EDT Article-I.D.: lsuc.692 Posted: Fri Jul 5 00:04:38 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 00:32:21 EDT References: <498@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <1918@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> <720@ihlpg.UUCP> <1948@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Distribution: net Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 26 In article <1948@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> raju@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Raju Bhatt) writes: ||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. Hold it right there. These weren't people picked randomly off the street, as you imply. They were arrested during Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon for actions against Israeli forces. Remember that Lebanon and Israel are officially at war and have been since 1948 (Lebanon, along with every other Arab country except Egypt, refuses to recognize Israel's existence, has refused any peace treaty, and has attacked Israel: that places the countries in a state of war). The last thing Israel wants is more prisoners. Not quite. The last thing it wants is more terrorist attacks on its citizens and guerrilla attacks on its army, which is trying to protect its citizens. As things settle down in Lebanon, Israel has been releasing the Shiites, and this has nothing whatsoever to do with the TWA hijacking. Dave Sherman Toronto -- { ihnp4!utzoo pesnta utcs hcr decvax!utcsri } !lsuc!dave