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From: mff@wuphys.UUCP (Mark Flynn)
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Subject: Re: Re: Kidnaping Shiites
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Date: Sun, 23-Jun-85 12:49:04 EDT
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[The following excerpt has been edited to support my point of view.]


> All these attacks on the PLO have gotten the Shiites a bad name for being
> soft on Israel/Jews.  So apparently at least one cause for the recent
> seizure of hostages is for the Shiites to get themselves a good press
> among their fellow Arabs as being properly anti-Israel/Jews.
> 
> --Lee Gold

Soft on Israel?  Who do you think has been blowing up all of the Isreali
soldiers in southern Lebonon?  It's been your friend and mine, the Amal
malitia.  That's why this whole hostage thing got started (besides general
Middle East insanity): the Isrealis are holding about 700 Shiites prisoner to
try to convince Amal to stop.  The main demand of the people holding the
hostages is that these prisoners be released.




						Mark F. Flynn
						Department of Physics
						Washington University
						St. Louis, MO  63130
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