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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
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Posted: Wed Jun 26 12:05:28 1985
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> 
>    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
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