Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cornell.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!amr From: amr@cornell.UUCP (Amr El Abbadi ) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Middle East, Oil and the costs of Militarism Message-ID: <232@cornell.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 11:07:37 EST Article-I.D.: cornell.232 Posted: Wed Oct 30 11:07:37 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 08:05:39 EST References: <460@mhuxm.UUCP> <740@whuxl.UUCP> <10822@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: amr@cornell.UUCP (Amr El Abbadi ) Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Lines: 15 Xref: lsuc net.politics:1769 net.religion.jewish:1489 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