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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (4740)	1/31/2003 2:29:13 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) of 25898

Perhaps they should be made to wear yellow stars just so we know who our enemies are. foxnews.com Israel Blasted for Writing Numbers on Arabs Wednesday, March 13, 2002 JERUSALEM — An Israeli lawmaker who survived the Nazi Holocaust expressed outrage Tuesday over Israeli troops writing identification numbers on the foreheads and forearms of Palestinian detainees awaiting interrogation during an army sweep of a West Bank refugee camp. Yugoslav-born Tommy Lapid said he told army chief of staff Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz and Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer that the practice must cease immediately. "As a refugee from the Holocaust I find such an act insufferable," Lapid said, adding that Mofaz and Ben-Eliezer also were displeased with the practice and that both had pledged action. During World War II, concentration camp inmates, most of them Jews, had numbers tattooed on their forearms. Mofaz later said in a radio interview that he had ordered an immediate halt to the numbering, which the army said was done to identify and keep track of prisoners last week in the Tulkarem refugee camp. [continued ...] Tom

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