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To: Yaacov who wrote (7294)	10/19/2001 7:58:43 PM
From: Ben Wa	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 23908

I have a moral question for you. This is an imaginary situation, but I think it is fun to decide what one would do. The situation: You are in the Middle East, and there is a huge flood in progress. Many homes have been lost, water supplies compromised and structures destroyed. Let's say that you're a photographer and getting still photos for a news service, traveling alone, looking for particularly poignant scenes. You come across Osama Bin Laden who has been swept away by the flood waters. He is barely hanging on to a tree limb and is about to go under. You can either put down your camera and save him, or take a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of him as he loses his grip on the limb. So, here's the question and think carefully before you answer the question below: Which lens would you use?

To: Yaacov who wrote (7294)	10/20/2001 5:04:01 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

LOL! Don't panic, Yaacov... Putin is making room for you in Chechnya...

To: Yaacov who wrote (7294)	10/20/2001 4:39:30 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

<< 10. The Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms. >> And now, the Arabs are trying to force Israel from the Jewish West Bank. Palestinians....... the people that evolution forgot.

To: Yaacov who wrote (7294)	10/20/2001 5:07:13 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

1. To claim "Jewish" nationhood going back to 1312 BCE, Judaism would have to be back-dated to include those who were Mesopotamian (aka Hebrew). Abraham was not a Jew. 5. Jerusalem, a Jebusite "city" was consolidated and conquered by King David in ~1050 BCE. Jews have been a majority culture there since. 7. David did not "found" Jerusalem 10. Arab Jews were run out of those countries, after living there for centuries, due to the establishment of the "Jewish" State...it was a retaliatory act. 12. Arab countries did not bring Palestinian refugees because it is their believe it would give Israel and the West a precedent to disregard the Palestinian's claims of "right of return" to their land that had been absconded by Zionists. 16-19. Israel scoffs at UN Resolutions, such as the 1982 one that directed them to get out of Southern Lebanon, and Resolution 242, that directs them to vacate the occupied territiories where it presently is madly building settlements. Israel wants to glorify UN Resolutions that support their land grab and cry when the do not support them. America finances these actions, using Holocaust victims, Russian pogroms, Catholic Inquisition, and real or imagined cries of anti-Semitism (sic), as a front to thwart criticism of these historical revisionisms and colonial actions. It was a mistake to seize the catastrophe of the Holocaust to create a "Jewish" State.