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To: zonder who wrote (58757)	11/25/2002 2:44:28 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Are you suggesting that it is OK for a state's army to shoot children throwing stones? A few little kids throwing stones, obviously not. However, "hundreds of youths" (the exact wording of the article, which implies most were big teenagers, not little kids) who have caught two guys in a jeep, are obviously a serious threat, even if they weren't backed by grenades, as the Palestinian stone-throwers usually are. If soldiers are to disperse a crowd, are bullets their only tool? Let's see - two soldiers, hundreds in the crowd, could try warning shots first, but if that doesn't work? What do you suggest? Exhortation? Perhaps you think the IDF should give standing orders for soldiers in that situation to commit suicide? What I am amazed at is how a group of people whose children were so horribly massacred only about fifty years ago can turn so cold to killing of other people's children. Easy to criticize others from safety, isn't it? It is the Europeans who keep enabling the terrorists who should feel ashamed. Hizbollah and Hamas support genocide, and the Eurocrats support them. They are busy even now "faciliting" the the Hamas-Fatah talks in Egypt, whose subject is ostensiblity how to define "open season" on which Jews in which locations. When this leads to Jewish children being slaughtered, the response from Monaco is about as deafening as it was sixty years ago. The Israelis care more about the deaths of the Palestinian children than the Palestinian leadership does. That is precisely why the tactic is so effective. If the Israelis didn't care, the attacks would fail, the children would die in bigger numbers, and the Palestinians would have to try something else. Just as they do when battling other Arabs. As Golda Meir said, We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us