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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (22441)3/28/2002 9:59:23 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Steven... Massacres happen in times of brutal conflict.

My Lai..., Chenogue in January, 1944... Atrocities by troops of the US 45th division in Sicily.. The starvation of thousands of German POWs in the Remagen camps in spring-summer 1945..

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The US is not immune from committing such atrocities... or rather should I say that certain individuals in US uniforms were not inhibited about committing such barbarous acts. And in fact, the US and Britain bombed civilians all throughout WWII.. Bomb them indiscriminately with explosives, incendiary devices, and ultimately... nuclear weapons...

But does that suggest that the US is a barbarous society? Do the actions of the few represent the spririt of the many?

I would suggest that the same applies to the Irgun at Deir Yassin. People do things during wartime that they might not do in conditions of relative peace.

If it represented the majority of Israelis, I suggest that there would be no Israeli Arab citizens... no Arabs on the West Bank... and Israel would have never given back the Sinai.

But does that mean they don't have their own groups of ruthless leaders and soldiers?? Absolutely not.

And to tell you something, were I under the same kind of wartime stress, where everyone you see in the towns you are moving is a potential enemy looking to kill you, I dare say I would have a hard being discriminating.

War is an ugly and brutal thing... And that's probably something the Arabs should have thought through a bit more thoroughly, before they decided to embark on 40 years of war against Israel.

Hawk
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