From: hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU (Brad Hernlem)
Subject: Re: War Resisters League on Terrorism (should be "of terrorism.")
Reply-To: hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU (Brad Hernlem)
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 16:54:32 GMT

In article <dfs.702912550@ro>, dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll) writes:
> In <1483500203@igc.org> pnmideast@igc.org writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> "Peace" (sic) net spouts hypocrisy yet again:
> 
> >     3. We oppose and condemn terrorism.
> 
> Very commendable.
> 
> >Israel, an ally of the U.S., recently
> >launched an air strike in Lebanon which killed a Moslem cleric and
> >his family, and still holds as a hostage a Moslem cleric who was
> >kidnaped by the Mossad.
> 
> The deaths of Musawi's wife and child were tragic and regrettable.
> However, let's not forget that Musawi was, and Obeid is, a member of
> an organization devoted not only to the destruction of Israel by
> force, but also the Nazi-like destruction of every Jew in the world,
> as they clearly stated after the bombing of Israel's embassy in
> Argentina:
> 
> 	``It is an open war until the elimination of Israel and until the
> 	death of the last Jew on earth.''
> 
> Let's also not forget that Hezbollah/Islamic Jihad were responsible
> for the kidnapping (and in some cases torture and death) of several
> innocent hostages, Westerners, Lebanese and Israelis among them.
> 
> I wonder how "peace" (sic) net can reconcile its support for this
> genocidal organization with "peace" (sic) net's stated goals?  Maybe
> they reconcile it by referring to terrorists as "clerics."  Perhaps we
> can clean Kahane's memory by calling him a "cleric."  What do you think,
> Joel?
> 
> --
>                      |         | "Step up and shake the hand
> David F. Skoll       | ||||||| |  Of someone you can't stand,
> |_ _ _  __   __ _ __ |  \\V//  |  You can tolerate him if you try..."
>  / |  | |_|   | |  | |  __|__  |  -- Tom Lehrer, "National Brotherhood Week"
>
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Beware the deceptive assumptions in David's post:

a) Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah are one and the same and that actions by
one group can be blamed on both.

b) The statement quoted above was made by "Islamic Jihad". (In actuality
the statement was made by unknown sources claiming to be representatives
of the Islamic Jihad.)

I have posted a great many articles on the subject of the resistance to
the Israeli occupation of Lebanon by Hezbollah and other Lebanese groups
to point out that, despite the image of these groups that we get from
our media, these people are fighting daily to free their country from
foreign occupation, NOT to plot the genocide of the Jews or the
kidnapping of Westerners. Even after the assassination of Mosawi by the
Israelis the new leader, Nasrollah, has reiterated that the kidnapping
of Westerners is forbidden. Apart from a few days of rage incited by
Israel after the assassination of Mosawi and the murder of his wife and
son, the Hezbollah had not and continue to desist from attacking Israel
directly. The statements and actions of a few anonymous people in Beirut
does not mean that the whole of Lebanon or the whole of Hezbollah
believe that way. David's deception is a directed to draw our attention
away from the real goal of these Lebanese; to be free from foreign occupation. 

Brad Hernlem

p.s. I am sure that David would not like me claiming that all Israel can
be represented by the Kach party's beliefs and actions; I ask that he
stop disseminating the lie that Hezbollah and the Lebanese resitance is
dedicated to the genocide of the Jews and the total destruction of Israel.
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