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To: Suma who wrote (25487)	8/1/2006 4:52:21 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 542066

and when they agreed that we should nuke all the Arabs... or wipe them out I just am astonished... ... I wonder, however, if this isn't the general mentality of Israeli's... I think the expression is more one of venting fear, anger, and at very worst possibly hatred, than it is one of seriously believing the action would be a good idea. They might believe its a good idea, but many people say horrible things without (at least after reflection and when the choice to do the horrible thing is really in front of them) really thinking that going ahead with it is a good idea. I read calls on SI for nuking Mecca in response to 9/11 (or at least for warning that future serious terrorist attacks would be responded to with a nuke on Mecca). Ann Coulter called for forcibly converting Muslims after 9/11. Did all the people saying such things really think we should do so? If so did they still think so after being given time to calm down? I think probably not. They where venting (or perhaps in Ann Coulter's case drumming up attention and publicity). If it was truly the considered opinion of Israelis in general that Arabs should be killed whenever possible and in as great of numbers as possible, than a lot more Arabs would be dead.

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