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From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly)
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Subject: Re: Gee, where are they??
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Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 00:06:40 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 13 00:06:40 1985
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[Me]
> > It seems to take a critical mass of news to inspire appropriate
> > outrage.  The leftist terrorists in El Salvador can't hold a
> > candle to the rightist ones in the body count dept.  Perhaps if
> > they were armed and trained as well...
[Cramer]
> I read a couple years ago an estimate of political murders in El
> Salvador compiled by one of the human rights groups.  I recall that
> the leftists killed about 2/3 the number of the so-called rightists.
> The leftists in El Salvador are no group to form a human rights
> cheering section for.

Agreed.  It would be interesting to get more up-to-date figures,
you know--a couple a years is a lot of bodies under the bridge.

> > As for the PLO, it's clear that if there's one group in the Mid-East
> > despised more than the Jews, it's the Palestinians.  No one cares
> > what happens to the Palestinians--unless it was caused by Jews.
> > 
> > So Ken, you've noticed the distinct anti-Jewish bias to the media?
> > Well, so much for claims that the Jews own said media.
 
> Perhaps the media have this funny idea that we should be supporting
> decent people; maybe that's why they are so outraged about Israel's
> depravity.

Oh Clayton, anti-Semitism does not become you at all.  The strife
visited on the Palestinians has come mostly from other Arab regimes,
many of whom--Jordan, for example--the US supports.  And as I said,
when Arabs kill Palestinians, nobody cares.  So it is interesting
that the standards America has set for Israel's geopolitical conduct are
altogether different than those held for any other countries, including
our own.  When we arm terrorists in Nicaragua, well, we're just
protecting our interests.  When Israel arms a faction in Lebanon--
a country on which they border and with which they are still quite
formally at war--all of a sudden it's depravity.
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