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From: amr@cornell.UUCP (Amr El Abbadi )
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Middle East, Oil and the costs of Militarism
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 11:07:37 EST
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In article <10822@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> mcgeer@ucbvax.UUCP (Rick McGeer) writes:
>
>(1) Israel is worth defending because it is the only Western nation in the
>Mideast, and (with the possible exception of Egypt) is the only nation in the
>area which professes the ideals of individual liberty and human dignity that
>we hold dear, not because of some spurious link to mideast oil.

I am sorry to disappoint you, but if you look at what is happening in
the West Bank, you will realize that the "ideals of individual liberty
and human dignity" are being completely disregarded, e.g. it is under
semi-permanent occupation, traveling by Arabs is very much restricted,
detentions, blowing-up of houses apply routinely to Arab "terrorists",
and not Israeli "terrorists", etc.

				Amr El Abbadi