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In article <1992Apr15.140120.8193@ennews.eas.asu.edu> makowsky@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (David Makowsky) writes:
>   In article <1992Apr13.203813.19355@techbook.com> gummitch@techbook.com (Jeff Frane) writes:
>   # Aha!  Now we begin to get the idea.  If an act of resistance (such as
>   # blowing up a hotel serving as British headquarters and killing innocent
>   # Arabs, Jews and British) is committed by Zionists, it is NOT terrorism.
>   # If a similar act, of course, was committed by Palestinians (note,
>   # Makowsky, no cute ?) then it would be a heinous terrorist act.
>
>	   Not at all.  I suggest you do two things.  Go read about what
>   actually happened at the King David hotel (and why it had to happen),
>   and shut up when you do not know what you are talking about.

I _have_ read about what actually happened at the King David Hotel.
It had all the hallmarks of a well-planned terrorist attack, including
the proverbial warning phone call (which was ignored by the British),
and timing with another terrorist attack elsewhere.

>   # This is a very good question.  Turn it around, Makowsky, how would you
>   # feel if you were a Palestinian Arab in Jaffa in 1947.  The United
>   # Nations tells you that your home is actually in the Jewish state. How
>   # would you like it?
>
>	   Well, they did not do this.  At any rate, claiming the home was in
>   a certain state is not the same as taking possesion of the home.

As I have posted earlier, Jaffa was in the Arab partition.  You are
also strictly correct in saying that just because some Arab homes were
in the Jewish partition (or in the territory taken over since the
partition) does not mean that these homes were wrested away from their
rightful owners.  Unfortunately, however, that is just what happened
in Jaffa and in uncounted other towns and villages.  The Arabs were
expelled on high authority (including Ben Gurion himself), and their
homes and lands were expropriated.  Often whole villages were
dynamited or bulldozed.

>   # Just out of
>   # curiosity, what are the real borders of Greater Israel?
>
>	   First of all I laugh when people use the term "Greater Israel".  I
>   do not know what you are talking about.  Apparently "Greater Israel"
>   is supposed to be a translation of "Eretz Yisrael".  It does not even
>   come close.

Ok, just out of curiosity, what are the real borders of Eretz Yisrael?
Do you support the expansion of the state of Israel to those of Eretz
Yisrael?  How do you propose that such expansion be accomplished?
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=Jim  jime%atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert)