To: chalu2 who wrote (7339 ) 10/20/2001 7:11:21 PM From: Hawkmoon Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 23908 Now come on Chalu... Don't be so hard on Arafat and his boys over Damour. They was just some good 'ol boys out looking for fun and got carried away... don't ya know that??? Besides, only some 600 of 'dem worthless sons of dogs were killed..... You need to think about the 500 some odd Palestinians who have died over a period of years fighting the Jews..... Any death of a Palestinian is obviously more important that a thousand Lebanese...geocities.com "After all, they was just a bunch of Lebanese and we know that Tommie boy doesn't care about 'dem... In all, 582 people were killed in the storming of Damour. Father Labaky went back with the Red Cross to bury them. Many of the bodies had been dismembered, so they had to count the heads to number the dead. Three of the men they found had had their genitals cut off and stuffed into their mouths. The horror did not end there, the old Christian cemetery was also destroyed, coffins were dug up, the dead robbed, vaults opened, and bodies and skeletons thrown across the grave yard. Damour was then transformed into a stronghold of Fatah and the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine). The ruined town became one of the main PLO centres for the promotion of international terrorism. The Church of St Elias was used as a repair garage for PLO vehicles and also as a range for shooting-practice with targets painted on the eastern wall of the nave." My advice... Just put the moron on ignore. I'm sick of his unwillingness to look at the brutality that has occured on ALL sides, and specifically focusing on Israel. These guys are ALL ruthless... Even the IDF... Everyone is justifying brutality against one another because of past misdeeds on the part of the opposition. But Tommie Boy can't seem to figure only Israel is Democratic with the chance that moderates can come to power and dominate the radicals and reactionaries. The Israelis WERE WILLING to compromise, but Arafat COULDN'T, because of the extremism he had fostered and used to bring the Israelis to the table and chase the Jordanians away from asserting their claim. Tommie's a moron... you know it, I know it.. and anyone else reading this thread, but not participating, knows it. I'm not giving him an audience for his myopic Chomskyite views any longer. Hawk