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In article <1992Apr12.014433.29249@ennews.eas.asu.edu> makowsky@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (David Makowsky) writes:
>   [Characterizing the rock-throwing youths in the intifada as solely
>    responsible for their own deaths at the hands of the Israeli soldiers]
   ... may be propaganda.  I am not denying that.  But it is also the
   truth.  If you believe it is misleading please say why.  Since the
   "palestinians?" themselves glorify these children for their actions, I
   think you are barking up a tree you cannot climb.

If the Israeli soldiers didn't fire the guns, the Palestinians
wouldn't be killed.  All the Israeli government has to do to stop the
killings is to change their policies of crowd control in the occupied
areas.  The present policy for controlling the intifada by force,
might, shootings, and beatings has failed.  The Israeli government
must realize this by now, but they are unwilling to change their
tactics.

>   # designed to ease the consciences of the
>
>	   It is what has happened on a day to day basis.  The only
>   consciences that need to be eased are of the parents, who should be
>   prosecuted for child abuse.

After all, the Israelis have no consciences, they feel no guilt about
the ~1000 Palestinians shot to death since 1988.  (sarcasm)

>   # occupationists.
>
>	   The only occupationists are those Arabs living in homes that are
>   identifyably marked as Jewish homes by mezuzah holes (a mezuzah is a
>   Jewish ritual object).  There are many such homes in Judea and
>   Samaria.

Huh?  Haven't you heard, the Israeli military occupies the West Bank,
the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights, in contravention of UN
resolutions.  That makes them the occupationists.  Now if the Arabs
are getting away with living in Jewish houses against the wishes of
their rightful owners, arrest them.  Don't shoot them.
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=Jim  jime%atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert)