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To: GST who wrote (28825)	9/18/2006 9:30:22 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541176

You have human rights groups alleging war crimes. Unreasonable and inaccurately. They are calling collateral damage war crimes. I see no reason to defer to their opinion just as I see no reason to defer to yours. If they have a good argument present it, but there proclamation by itself is almost meaningless.

To: GST who wrote (28825)	9/19/2006 9:03:07 AM
From: Paul Kern	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541176

There are those who deny that Israel targets civilians. There is an old mideast proverb that goes like this: "If you lie down with the dogs, expect to get fleas" If you let Hezbollah fire rockets from the roof of your apartment building, expect to get .... Don't tell me that in a country where every family has a couple of AKs in the closet, they were all powerless to resist. When I was there, a beat up AK sold for as little as $35 because so many foreigners; russian, chinese, syrian, Israeli etc. had flooded the country with small arms.