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To: Bilow who wrote (25237)	4/15/2002 5:25:17 AM
From: William B. Kohn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I believe that Sabra and Shatilla was Arab on Arab violence. I do not beleive that the live of one Israeli serviceman should have been asked to put his life on the line to save people who have been trying to kill him and throw his 'family' into the sea. The only crime Sharon may have committed is to not realize that the nature of Arabs is to kill one another whenever they get the chance. It seems you are quite willing to forget this as well in your rush to judgement that two wrongs don't make a right. What were the two wrongs, that didn't make a right. I would argue that they may have been: 1. It is wrong for a group of people to state as that their majro purpose for being is the destruction of another persons state. 2. It is wrong for a group of people who are invited to live among others as guests to destroy the house that gave them shelter and in so doing putting that house at risk of survival (A problem that seems to follow these Palestinians whereever they go) 1 caused 2 and 2 caused a great deal of resentment by the host country (Lebanon) and many of its people. As a result you had the incidents at Sabra and Shatilla. That is what happened nothing more, nothing less. By the way Sabra and Shatilla pale when compared to the way the Syrians and the Jordanians handled their Palestinian problems. Further, no Arab nation since Jordan, has any desire to shelter this savage (generalization but not mine, but rather Saudi's and Kuwait's) people.