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To: Bobby Yellin who wrote (31612)	4/12/1999 4:59:00 PM
From: Ahda	Respond to of 116791

Humans are politicians, humans are aggressive, even vegans are. plants are less aggressive by nature yet weeds kills less hardy plants. It is almost impossible to draw a line. Start by reeducating the whole blasted planet. Life is valuable there is the line.

To: Bobby Yellin who wrote (31612)	4/12/1999 6:12:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 116791

Kosovar Refugees Welcomed in Israel Monday, 12 April 1999 B E N -G U R I O N A I R P O R T , I S R A E L (AP) MORE THAN 100 Kosovar refugees arrived Monday in Israel to a festive greeting tinged by the solemnity of preparations for Holocaust Remembrance Day. "You are arriving on a special day for the Jews of Israel," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, greeting the 114 refugees - 17 families - on the tarmac. "As Jews we have a special sensitivity for the suffering of others. We feel a responsibility to help." Most of the refugees arrived from Macedonia, where the Israeli army is running a field hospital for ethnic Albanian refugees forced out of Kosovo province by Serb military action. The forced evacuation has intensified since NATO began air strikes against Yugoslavia began in late March. The refugees stepped off the plane wearing Jewish Agency T-shirts. The children waved Israeli flags. The refugees will be housed at a nature society field school on the Israeli coast - close to an Arab village that has a mosque where the refugees, most of whom are Muslims, can pray. "We are happy to be here and we feel safe coming here," said Valon Kuqi, 17, who is from Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. He arrived with his parents and two sisters. "They came to our building and ordered us out of our house," he said of Serbian police. "They threatened to kill us if we could not give them anything of value." His father handed over his wedding ring and his wife's earrings, Valon said. Kreshnik Bajrkeari, a 23-year-old dental student from Pristina, said they intend to return home as soon as possible. "But we don't know what we'll find when we go back," he said. "I cannot imagine living with Serbians." Netanyahu said the refugees would be welcome to stay in Israel if they chose to do so. Thirty Bosnian Muslims who sought refuge here in 1993 have remained. During his greeting, he singled out Llamia Jaka, the daughter of Dervish and Servet Kurkut, a Kosovar couple that hid Jews during the Holocaust. "Today we are closing a circle, by granting shelter to the daughter of those who saved Jews," he said. Ms. Jaka and her husband were among the refugees; her two children were on their way from Budapest. During Holocaust Remembrance Day, which began at sundown Monday, Israelis commemorate the murder of six million Jews during the 1939-45 German occupation of Europe. For 24 hours, restaurants and places of entertainment shut down and television and radio broadcasts are dedicated to Holocaust programming.

To: Bobby Yellin who wrote (31612)	4/12/1999 6:20:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116791

where do you draw the line?>>> It is more like how you draw the line ....Do you see NATO troops as liberating army? Please, draw me the most optimistic scenario that you see from this campaign..

To: Bobby Yellin who wrote (31612)	4/12/1999 6:22:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116791

Ethnic Albanian-Americans To Fight Against Serbs 05:35 p.m Apr 12, 1999 Eastern By Patrick Rizzo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hundreds of ethnic Albanian Americans mustered Monday to join the fray in Kosovo as fighting between Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas and Serb forces raged on along the Yugoslav-Albanian border. The 385 men and a few women were leaving on a chartered flight for Tirana, Albania Monday night from Newark International Airport. Precise departure details were not being released. With echoes of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, American volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War at the end of the 1930s, the group has dubbed itself the ''Atlantic Brigade''. The recruits ranged in age from teenagers to men in their 60s. Most have no military training. Many have never been to Kosovo and do not speak the local languages well. Sunday the volunteers, dressed in army fatigues emblazoned with the KLA's insignia, held a ''swearing in'' ceremony in Yonkers, N.Y., organized by the KLA and Homeland Calls, its U.S. fund-raising arm. They will be joining the 2,000 to 3,000 ethnic Albanians from the United States who have already volunteered to fight the Serb forces in Kosovo, said Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi, Balkan Affairs Advisor for the Albanian American Civic League. ''Planeloads have been going out'' since last spring, she said. ''We see others going out as long as there is no help going in.'' Volunteers for the KLA have been coming from ethnic Albanians in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. The KLA is training them in Albania. Cloyes DioGuardi said the volunteers are being financed by donations from the seven million ethnic Albanians who live outside the Balkans, mostly in the United States and Europe. She said she did not know how much money had been raised. ''But it's not enough,'' she added. Congressman James Traficant, Democrat of Ohio, is expected to introduce a resolution in the House of Representatives this week calling for NATO and the United States to arm the KLA, to invade Yugoslavia with ground troops and to try Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes. Since March 24, Milosevic has defied a massive NATO bombing campaign and continued military operations in Kosovo. Since that date, about 456,000 ethnic Albanian refugees fled or were expelled from Kosovo. NATO foreign ministers earlier Monday accused Milosevic of creating a humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo and said they would continue to bomb until he relented. They reiterated that an invasion of Kosovo was not being contemplated. Fierce battles between the KLA and Serb forces have raged over the past four days. Monday KLA guerrillas fought Serb forces on the Yugoslav-Albanian frontier. According to Albanian police and OSCE officials, three Albanian citizens and four KLA fighters have been killed on Albanian territory during fighting involving machine guns and Serb mortar attacks, some against villages and border posts. Eyewitnesses said three Kosovo villages near the northern Albanian border were set ablaze Monday. Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited.