From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 04:58:06 MST
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.
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?
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".
Regards
Blunderov
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