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 Subject: Re: Terrorism and TWA 847 Message-ID: <684@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 01:21:14 EDT Article-I.D.: lsuc.684 Posted: Mon Jul 1 01:21:14 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 02:10:07 EDT References: <600003@ur-univax> <9700096@uiucdcs> Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 33 In article <9700096@uiucdcs> acheng@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA writes: > >>From: ephraim@techunix.bitnet (Ephraim Silverberg) >> >> When the State of Israel tries to neutralise the military camps of the >> Shi'ites in Lebanon, we are condemned as facists and murderers, although >> these people have waged an active war of terror on the Northern residents >> of Israel for over ten years. However, when the lives of Americans are af- >> fected then a "different" standard seems to apply -- anything goes: random >> killing, attack civilian populations, etc. >> > >What about the lives of the Leboron people? Their homes? Their country? >What about those shi'ite kidnapped under the name of war? In name of securing >the peace for Galilee, Leboron was bombed flat? How about one standard >to all countries, be it America, Israel, Leboron, and even Palistine? Where on earth do you get such ideas? Lebanon "bombed flat"? By Israel? Take a look at the civil war which has been going on there since 1975. Israel attacked military and terrorist (PLO) targets primarily. Yes, civilians have suffered. But the Lebanese have suffered much more at the hands of the PLO, Syria and themselves than from Israel. And Israel was quite justified in invading in the first place. What would the U.S. do if Cuba started sending bombs and missiles daily into Florida? "Palistine"? Or did you mean Palestine? At any rate, there is no such country. Unless you mean Jordan, which is 77% of Palestine. Dave Sherman Toronto -- { ihnp4!utzoo pesnta utcs hcr decvax!utcsri } !lsuc!dave