Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.4 $; site uiucdcs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!authorplaceholder From: acheng@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Terrorism and TWA 847 Message-ID: <9700096@uiucdcs> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 16:04:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.9700096 Posted: Thu Jun 27 16:04:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 00:51:40 EDT References: <600003@ur-univax> Lines: 23 Nf-ID: #R:ur-univax:600003:uiucdcs:9700096:000:1162 Nf-From: uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA!acheng Jun 27 15:04:00 1985 >... >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. > > I do *not*, Heaven forbid, take the lives of the endangered Americans > lightly and I sincerely hope and pray that they all return safely to their > homes and families. I am only sickened by the *constant* double standard > the world applies to the State of Israel. We value the blood of our peo- > ple and children as much as you do. > >... 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?