Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site kontron.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!pesnta!pertec!kontron!cramer From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Understanding the Shiites Message-ID: <280@kontron.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 12:05:28 EDT Article-I.D.: kontron.280 Posted: Wed Jun 26 12:05:28 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 03:22:20 EDT References: <675@cadovax.UUCP> Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA Lines: 23 > > The US gives $7,000,000 per day in economic aid to Israel. More > than half of this aid is used to purchase US made arms and > munitions. The US is morally accountable for the deaths of > thousands of Lebanese. The President has a moral obligation to > demand that human rights be observed by the Israelis. So far what > few demands have been made in this regard have been scoffed at by > Israel. Now Israel scoffs at the Shiite demands to free the Shiite > prisoners captured in Lebanon and imprisoned in Israel as a > violation of the Geneva convention. The Shiites have no one to > turn to. They took the most viable method possible: international > terrorism. This is an indeed sad state of affairs when a people > feels so desperate to obtain help that they have to resort to > terrorism instead of diplomatic means. > The reaction of the terrorists is more than immoral, it's dumb: Israel was planning to release the Shiite hostages it holds shortly anyway. Taking hostages just slows the process down. > > Jeff Fields > {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!jefff >