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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (4740)	1/31/2003 2:29:13 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Perhaps they should be made to wear yellow stars just so we know who our enemies are. foxnews.com Israel Blasted for Writing Numbers on Arabs Wednesday, March 13, 2002 JERUSALEM — An Israeli lawmaker who survived the Nazi Holocaust expressed outrage Tuesday over Israeli troops writing identification numbers on the foreheads and forearms of Palestinian detainees awaiting interrogation during an army sweep of a West Bank refugee camp. Yugoslav-born Tommy Lapid said he told army chief of staff Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz and Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer that the practice must cease immediately. "As a refugee from the Holocaust I find such an act insufferable," Lapid said, adding that Mofaz and Ben-Eliezer also were displeased with the practice and that both had pledged action. During World War II, concentration camp inmates, most of them Jews, had numbers tattooed on their forearms. Mofaz later said in a radio interview that he had ordered an immediate halt to the numbering, which the army said was done to identify and keep track of prisoners last week in the Tulkarem refugee camp. [continued ...] Tom

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (4740)	1/31/2003 2:48:53 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Great idea MSI. Lets publicize this. Perhaps they should be made to wear yellow stars just so we know who our enemies are. How about this: a statement from someone in authority that in fact there are not any citizens of Israel in the policy-making apparatus of gov't - do you think that would be sufficient? Your suggestion sounds a bit like you think not having non-Americans deciding American policy is akin to Hitlerism. You must agree with the policy of supporting other various mercenary states around the world, as well. BTW, did you know the WSJ reporter Daniel Perle was an Israeli citizen? It was not considered a salient fact in the mainstream press. What do you think, do you think it was insignificant? This goes to the heart of the reason for terrorism in this country, the war in Iraq, etc., as claimed by AQ, that US support for blood-feud enemy Israel is their reason for attacks. American citizens should know clearly what influences, payments, people in policy positions, and other acts of aggression are for purely US reasons (the vaunted "they are jealous of our prosperity and freedom" line), or for US support of their avowed mortal enemy, Israel. Any hiding of those issues is a disservice to American taxpyers, citizens and soldiers.