To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (29326 ) 9/25/2001 12:26:34 AM From: E Read Replies (1) | Respond to I'm pasting the last para of the New Republic piece linked below. the Palestinian Authority's official newspaper's position on suicide bombers, as published on September 11. (I believe that this appeared on September 11 before the actual attacks, but am not positive. If I'm right about that, it was dishonest of Peretz to imply the editorial appeared after the Twin Towers and Pentagon bombings. I'm not sure a call for violence is so very much better than a celebration of it, however, taste issues aside. Sept. 11 is the date of the paper, in any case.) I understand that we give about $100 million dollars a year in aid to the PA."The suicide bombers of today are the noble successors of their noble predecessors ... the Lebanese suicide bombers who taught the US Marines a tough lesson (in Lebanon) ... and then with no preconditions, threw the last of the remaining enemy (Israeli) soldiers out of the (security) zone. These suicide bombers are the salt of the earth, the engines of history ... they are the most honorable among us." Sad to say, we Americans no longer need any instructions in how it feels to be an Israeli. The murderers in the skies have taught us all too well. We are all Israelis now.>>> thenewrepublic.com
