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,net.politics Subject: Re: Terrorism and TWA 847 Message-ID: <691@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 23:55:53 EDT Article-I.D.: lsuc.691 Posted: Thu Jul 4 23:55:53 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 00:31:55 EDT References: <600003@ur-univax> <1947@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 51 Summary: double standard on Israel In article <1947@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> raju@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Raju Bhatt) writes: > I >don't believe the whole world applies the double standard... > After pounding >West Beirut and having Arafat withdraw his forces on the condition that Israel >would not enter West Beirut, the Israeli "sightseeing" force entered West Beirut >and pretended not to see the Maronites killing Palestinian refugees. Did the >American public forget that or were they helped to forget? The Wall Street Journal put it very well in this article of May 30: "Something seems to be missing as violence in Lebanon rises to a new crescendo. For weeks now, Christian forces have been in retreat from advancing Shiites; the number of Christian refugees is approaching 100,000, though precise estimates are hard to find. And since May 19, Shiite forces have been moving in on Palestinian camps, including Sabra and Shatilla, around the Lebanese capital... the latest despatches say hundreds of people have been massacred. "Where are all the moralists now? They descended on the Lebanese story in droves when, in September 1982, Phalangist forces, moving past Israeli troops, drove into Sabra and Shatilla in search of Palestinian guerrillas and in over 36 terrible hours killed hundreds of people, including many women and children. Some accused the Israelis, in effect, of aiding and abetting the massacre... "But you don't hear the moralists now. They aren't blaming the Syrian defense minister. They aren't asking for a commission of inquiry in Damascus. They aren't heaping on the head of President Assad the kind of hateful language they leveled at Prime Minister Begin. And they appear to take no notice whatsoever of the fact that Syria's brutal consolidation of its hegemony in Lebanon is taking place under cover provided by Moscow. After a while it makes one wonder whether it was the deaths of innocent Palestinians that was worrying the moralists to begin with, or the possibility of a Western victory." (Wall Street Journal, May 30/85, "Deafening Silence". Ref. CJN 27/6/85 p.2) Yes, there's a double standard. It's quite visible in Mr. Bhatt's misleading accusations. Dave Sherman -- { ihnp4!utzoo pesnta utcs hcr decvax!utcsri } !lsuc!dave