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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (185432)	3/23/2004 10:47:38 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1584759

Come on, Sharon is painted as a monster for no good reason, if he was a "butcher" enjoying seeing Arabs being slaughtered, he had a number of occasions to do it "completely legally" and he refused to do it. There are many ways to be a monster. Just because Sharon does not send suicide bombers over to the West Bank does make him God's favorite. Sharon was there when the Palestinians were killed in Lebanon. When Sharon was Housing Minister, more new settlements were built in the WB than before or since. Sharon has repeatedly voiced his distaste for the Palestinians......just two years ago he went on national Israeli tv and said that the Palestinians can forget about getting independence. He seems to forget how long the Jews pined for their independence. Three years ago, he went up to the Dome of the Rock, one of Islam's holy places and made a big thing of it, knowing that it would agitate the Palestinians. He agitates and agitates and holds up the carrot only to whisk it away when the Palestinians get close. Take the Egyptian third Army which in 1973 he completely encircled and could have decimated it by simple artillery barrage, with no place to go. As soon as it became clear they are no longer a fighting force, he let them surrender with honor. Even the Egyptians admit that. Sharon has problems, one of them is being impulsive and acting without full "deliberation" of all the possible outcomes (but I have seen very few world leaders that do, the French leadership just prior to the Iraqi conflagration precipitated the war by stating categorically "there is no security council resolution we will not veto", or some thing to that effect, locking the door on possible political solution Powell was working on, and facilitating the neocons' desire in the administration to "take out" Saddam, whatever the excuse). One thing he is not, he is not blood thirsty and nor has he ever ordered killing of innocent civilians, or for that matter the wasteful killing of Egyptian soldiers that are no longer posing a military threat. He may not have ordered it but many innocent civilians have died in the attacks he has directed against Palestine. Three times as many Palestinians have died than Israelis during this latest jihad. Don't get me wrong......the Palestinians are not innocents either......there is blood on both sides. However, as the stronger of the two, Israel has a responsibility to take some strong steps to mitigate the violence and tensions. Frankly, I don't think Israel wants to see an independent Palestine for many reasons.

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (185432)	6/24/2004 2:10:13 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584759

Sharon is painted as a monster for no good reason Sharon is a monster. End of story. Qibya: 50 years of injustice and impunity October 14, 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of a virtually forgotten massacre. In the Jordanian village of Qibya, a total of 69 civilians were murdered during a six-hour killing spree that nearly destroyed the entire town. The attackers blew up about forty houses, a school, a water pumping station, a police station and telephone office, and yet they sustained no casualties, since Qibya was virtually undefended. Of the first 42 bodies recovered after the attack, 38 were women and children. One man lost all 11 members of his family. Describing the scene, a UN observer stated that "bullet-riddled bodies near the doorways and multiple bullet hits on the doors of the demolished houses indicated that the inhabitants had been forced to remain inside until their homes were blown up over them." International condemnation was swift and unequivocal. The UN Security Council passed Resolution 101, specifically condemning the attack on Qibya. On October 16th, the US State Department issued a statement expressing sympathy for the victims and urging that the persons responsible "should be brought to account." The National Jewish Post, in an October 30th editorial, wrote that "Qibya was in effect another Lidice and no United States citizen who was living at the time of this detestable Nazi extermination of an entire village will forget the world's horror at that act."( electronicintifada.net counterpunch.org guardian.co.uk Tom