From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 19:50:18 MST
On 7 Feb 2002 at 13:58, Blunderov wrote:
> L'Ermit wrote:
> <snip>
> and Ariel
> Sharon are happily killing their own "terrorists".
> <snap>
>
> Joe Dees retorted:
> <snip>
> The term does not deserve qualifying quotes when applied to the suicide
> bombers and
> machine-gunners of massed civilians.
> <snap>
>
> [Blunderov insists]
> "Israel" has long and long used its population as a military weapon. In the
> beginning it was summoned from the four corners of the globe and illegally
> infiltrated into Palestine after WW2 where it remained as a brazen fait
> accompli. Even now they are used for the military purpose of seizing and
> holding additional valuable water resources and territory in Palestine,
> strenuously claiming all the while to be peaceful civilians and therefore
> morally absolved from military penalty.
>
The Palestinians are obviously using their population as a military
weapon; one wonders whether there are many of them that one could
truthfully term 'civilian' any more.
>
> Perhaps the Palestinians don't care if you and other Americans think they
> are terrorists? Perhaps they consider themselves to be waging war by the
> only means at their disposal against a perfectly legitimate target?
>
Okay, let's be even handed; not restrain either side, and sell weapons
to both, and not care ourselves, either. You like? I thought not.
>
> The fluffy little meme; "civilians are not a legitimate military target"
> seems to have been, throughout recorded history, "honoured more in the
> breach than the observance" Another, more usually observed, convention is
> the one that holds all to be fair in love and war. Yet another holds that
> "the friend of my enemy is [em]my[/em] enemy".
>
That would make the Palestinians our enemy, since they have
consistently allied themselves those who wish the US ill; first Iraq, then
Iran. Remember that the terrorist that Iran is sheltering, Imad
Mugniyah, who arranged for the Iranian weapons shipment to the
Palestinians via Karime A (a fact confirmed by the ship's captain, an
officer in the Palestinian Authority navy), was the mastermind of the US
embassy and marine barracks truckbombings in Beirut, as well as the
hijacking of Flight 847 in which Robert Stetham, a US citizen, was
executed and dumped on the tarmac. And I'm quite sure that quite a
few in their alphabet soup of Islamist terror organizations (Hamas,
Hizbollah, Islamic Jihad - in particular -, Al Aqsa Brigades, PFLP)
maintain Al Quaeda ties.
>
> Regards
>
> Blunderov
>
>
>
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