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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (27801)	2/6/2004 1:34:06 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793656

Would it be ok for the US to put a missile into an Iraqi building known to house a leader of the Ba'athist 'insurgency'? You betcha. Actually it would not be, if the building housed civilians as well. We hold ourselves – and almost everybody else - to a higher standard of behaviour than that. We also recognize that the use of excessive and indiscriminate force without consideration for the lives of non-combatants is counterproductive, and creates terrorists faster than you can kill them. You have yet to produce any evidence that a meaningful double standard is being applied to Israel, especially within the United States, the only place where it really matters these days. Some Americans may occasionally express discomfort at the behaviour of our client state – let’s be realistic, that’s what Israel is – but there has never been any serious attempt to translate that discomfort into reduction or even serious questioning of the special and monumental privileges Israel enjoys in Washington.