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To: steve harris who wrote (448684)	1/19/2009 2:49:03 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574579

Sourman lying is his SOP. Bigots usually have to lie to support their silly positions....

To: steve harris who wrote (448684)	1/19/2009 2:59:29 PM
From: SARMAN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574579

Your Hamas and Hezbo buddies are on the list and Israel is not. If you were in the US you could be charged with supporting a terrorist organization. Either you are stupid or you are naive. Did you know that AIPAC with the help of their puppets drafted the bills to include Hamas and Hizbo to be on the terrorists list? Oops, they do not teach these thing in Zionist schools.

To: steve harris who wrote (448684)	1/19/2009 3:15:00 PM
From: one_less	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574579

Terrorism is always condemnable. Israel has super power weaponry and support from super power nations, so terrorism is not the most effective weapon in its arsenal. We like to talk about equivalence in their response to the Palestinian rocket attacks which makes no sense to me. A fight worth fighting is a fight that should be fought for a victory, not one in which ‘hey I didn’t hit you THAT hard’ gets points. But to be fair, modern day Israel officially condemns terrorism while that was not the case until Jewish groups had the superpower backing needed to take the region using conventional military strategies. ------------------ An article titled "Terror" in He Khazit (The Front, a Lehi underground newspaper) argued as follows: Neither Jewish ethics nor Jewish tradition can disqualify terrorism as a means of combat. We are very far from having any moral qualms as far as our national war goes. We have before us the command of the Torah, whose morality surpasses that of any other body of laws in the world: "Ye shall blot them out to the last man." But first and foremost, terrorism is for us a part of the political battle being conducted under the present circumstances, and it has a great part to play: speaking in a clear voice to the whole world, as well as to our wretched brethren outside this land, it proclaims our war against the occupier. We are particularly far from this sort of hesitation in regard to an enemy whose moral perversion is admitted by all. -------- Lehi, also known as the Stern Gang, a term coined by the British, was an armed underground Zionist faction in Mandatory Palestine, whose goal was to forcibly evict the British authorities from Palestine, allowing unrestricted immigration of Jews and the formation of a Jewish state. Initially called the National Military Organization in Israel, the name of the group was later changed to Lehi. Lehi was described as a terrorist organization by the British authorities and United Nations mediator Ralph Bunche. Lehi carried out the Nov 1944 assassination in Cairo of Lord Moyne along with other attacks on the British authorities and Palestinian Arabs. The newly-formed Israeli government banned the organization under an anti-terrorism law passed three days after the Sept 1948 assassination of the UN mediator Folke Bernadotte. Israel granted a general amnesty to Lehi members on 14 February 1949 and in 1980 the group was honored by the institution of the Lehi ribbon, a military decoration the organization's former members are entitled to wear. On 6 November 1944 Lehi assassinated Lord Moyne in Cairo. Moyne was the highest ranking British government representative in the region. January 12, 1947, Lehi members drove a truckload of explosives into a British police station in Haifa killing four and injuring 140. During the lead-up to the 1948 Arab-Israeli war the Cairo-Haifa train was mined several times. On February 29, 1948, Lehi mined the train north of Rehovot, killing 28 soldiers and wounding 35. On March 31, the train was mined near Binyamina killing 40 civilians and wounding 60. Deir Yassin is a village located 5 kilometres west of Jerusalem. On 9 April 1948, independently of the Nachshon operation but with the agreement of the Haganah, about 120 members of Lehi and Irgun attacked the village. They massacred between 100 and 120 inhabitants of the village, mostly civilians. Although Lehi had stopped operating nationally after May 1948, the group continued to function in Jerusalem. On 17 September 1948, Lehi assassinated UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte who had been sent to broker a settlement in the dispute. ----------------- Irgun was a militant Zionist terrorist group that operated in Palestine between 1931 and 1948. Some of the better-known attacks by Irgun were the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946 The Deir Yassin massacre (accomplished together with the Stern Gang) on 9 April 1948. In the West, Irgun was described as a terrorist organization by The New York Times newspaper, The Times (of London), the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry[7], and prominent world and Jewish figures, such as Winston Churchill, Tom Segev, Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, and many others. Irgun attacks prompted a formal declaration from the World Zionist Congress in 1946, which strongly condemned "the shedding of innocent blood as a means of political warfare". Irgun was a political predecessor to Israel's right-wing Herut (or "Freedom") party, which led to today's Likud party. Likud has led or been part of most Israeli governments since 1977.