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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
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Subject: Re: Protesting the Beirut Hostage Crisis
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Date: Fri, 5-Jul-85 00:04:38 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  5 00:04:38 1985
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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
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