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From: dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Another Zionist Plot . . . Hmmmmmmm.
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 00:05:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 00:05:00 1985
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> Now is it that the Arabs (they all look alike to me) are that stupid, just
> don't care about American opinion or don't understand how it works, or is
> it that 'other' hands are at work guiding the idealistic young Arab boys
> and girls????? [Implication that Israeli intelligence might be the
> guiding hand]

Nice try, but this one doesn't really wash. It seems clear that Egypt
and the PLO in fact did not understand what US public opinion would be
in this case. For example, if Egypt or the PLO had wanted to favorably
influence US opinion, they could simply have handed the hijackers over
to the US or Italy. Or, even better, they could have staged a daring
"commando raid" on the ship, freeing the hostages and discreetly slipping
the hijackers out the back way. You remember, the way Iran did it when
that hijacked plane landed in Teheran a while back. Say, whatever
happened to the guys who hijacked that plane anyway?

> And why is it that Arafat always arrives just a few minutes too late to be
> blown out of his shoes?????

Now, this *is* a very interesting train of thought. Then, come to think
of it, there was the time Israel had him holed up together with most
of his remaining troops in Beirut, and in the end gave him safe
passage to Tunis ... Hmmmm...

Isaac Dimitrovsky
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