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In article <JIME.92Apr15121133@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu> jime@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu
(Jim Eggert x6127 g41) responds to gross@befvax.uchicago.edu's message of Wed, 15 Apr 1992

>>   I would just like to say, for the record, that I personally am opposed to
>>   any such 'transfer' of Palestinians from the territories.  Mr. Makowsky
>>   represents a small minority of Israelis, and an even smaller minority
>>   of Jewish supporters of Israel.  
>>
>>   Most Jewish supporters of Israel, and most Israelis are opposed to any
>>   such 'transfer', and Mr. Makosky does not speak for them.  The vast majority
>>   believe that Palestinians have a right to live there.  
>>
>>   The question of deporting INDIVIDUAL Palestinians, as a punishment for violent
>>   actions against Israel, is another question entirely.
>
>But even the deportation of individual Palestinians is against the Geneva
>Convention.  The world community does not in general support this
>action by Israel, and considers it contrary to international law.
>--
>=Jim  jime%atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert)



As reported by ABC News, Kuwait has deported/refused re-entry of 350,000 Palestinians (as
of last month).  

WHAT WAS THEIR CRIME????

The PLO sided with Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War, therefore they are guilty.  
The other 150,000 who weren't deported have been retained because of the slave labor
which Palestinians are paid for their work in re-building Kuwait.  Once that is done,
out they go!  

Many of these Palestinans are 2nd generation Kuwaiti "visitors."  (Visitors because 
they are not granted citizenship).  

This too is contrary to international law.

When Israel wants to deport 12 murderers, James Baker has a tantrum.  But Kuwait (Bush's
"Oil Buddies") deports 350,000 no one even blinks.    

(If Israel had a death penalty for 1st degree murder, and every convicted Palestinian/Israeli
murder got "the chair," they would beg for deportation!)

Maybe it is time to put the Middle East in perspective, and not spend all of our time 
censuring Israel.


Gedaliah Friedenberg
-=-Department of Mechanical Engineering
-=-Michigan State University