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To: Thomas M. who wrote (3665)	9/18/2003 5:58:18 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

Ah - the "cut and paste" is working overtime. IT's a substitute for thinking and rationale thought. Let's assume that Sharon's visit to the Wall created a call for an Intifadah. Can any rationale thinker suggest that a visit to a wall should create the calls for death, which calls have been honored to the extreme? Yes - the valid military tactic - target civilians, put them in terror. Yet, when a military protecting its civlians, targets military adversaries with incidental civilian damages, posters here get quite upset.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (3665)	9/18/2003 6:02:07 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 20773

<<< Tensions, always high, were raised when the Barak government authorized a visit by Ariel Sharon with 1000 police to the Muslim religious sites (Al-Aqsa) on a Thursday (Sept. 28). Sharon is the very symbol of Israeli state terror and aggression, with a rich record of atrocities going back to 1953. Sharon's announced purpose was to demonstrate "Jewish sovereignty" over the al-Aqsa compound, but as the veteran correspondent Graham Usher points out, the "al-Aqsa intifada," as Palestinians call it, was not initiated by Sharon's visit; rather, by the massive and intimidating police and military presence that Barak introduced the following day, the day of prayers. Predictably, that led to clashes as thousands of people streamed out of the mosque, leaving 7 Palestinians dead and 200 wounded. Whatever Barak's purpose, there could hardly have been a more efficient way to set the stage for the shocking atrocities of the following weeks ... ... During these weeks, over 100 Palestinians were killed, including 30 children, often by "excessive use of lethal force in circumstances in which neither the lives of the security forces nor others were in imminent anger, resulting in unlawful killings," Amnesty International concluded in a detailed report that was scarcely mentioned in the US. The ratio of Palestinian to Israeli dead was then about 15-1 >>> palestine-net.com