From: 9999sc01@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (Alexandre Khalil)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
Subject: Re: Palestinian deportees turned back by Lebanese
Date: 20 Dec 1992 18:02 CDT
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In article <BzKKqJ.FKB@cs.uiuc.edu>, soufi@cs.uiuc.edu (Khaled S. Soufi) writes...
>Michael F. Kamprath <kamprath@space-grant.sprl.umich.edu> writes:
> 
>>In article <xwV=Xw+@engin.umich.edu> Hani Abinassif,
>>hani@civil4.engin.umich.edu writes:
>>>In article <CNV=HwB@engin.umich.edu>, Michael F. Kamprath 
>>><kamprath@space-grant.sprl.umich.edu> writes:
>>>> In article <1992Dec18.125152.13844@zip.eecs.umich.edu> UPI,  writes:
>>>> >	RASHAYA, Lebanon (UPI) -- Hundreds of Palestinian fundamentalists
>>>> >deported by Israel were turned back Friday by Lebanese troops when they
>>>> 
>>>> I got a question concerning this.  Of all the countries that Israel
>>could deport
>>>> these people to, why Lebanon?  Is there a tie between these people and
>>Lebanon?
>>>
>>>Whoever asked this question is really insensitive to the plight of those
>>>deported, to say the least...This question implies that Israel has the
> 
>>I think not.
> 
>>I just could not understand why they would send them to Lebanon.  It didn't
>>make sense to me.
> 
>>But if you want me to be insesitive, I'll just never ask questions and remain
>>ignorant.
> 
>A lot of times ignorance about a specific issue could lead to
>misunderstandings.  I believe both Hani and you Michael were partly
>guilty in this exchange.  Hani for not giving you the benefit of the
>doubt albeit it is quite hard in this case given the unmistakable
						      ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>insensitivity of the question.  On the other hand, expressing how you
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>felt about the act of deportation, though it is not normally
>necessary, could have maybe reaffirmed the innocence in your inquiry
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>to those of us who are *deeply* disturbed with the latest israeli
>aggression.

  Should not innocence be presumed unless otherwise proven ?

  It is probable that insensitivity is in the mind of the reader: I was
about to answer to the original inquiry like you, Khaled, but I had nothing to 
add after you posted your common-sensical reply.

  Lebanon is probably in the situation Poland was, just before WWII: trapped
between two agressive neighbours, Hitler's Germany and Staline's USSR with
the change of borders and the result that you know.

>>======================================================================
>>|Michael F. Kamprath                   | The University of Michigan  |
>>|  kamprath@space-grant.sprl.umich.edu |      Aerospace Engineering  |
>>|  kamprath@engin.umich.edu            |      Graduate Student       |
>>======================================================================


>+-----------Khaled Soufi-------------+--------------------------+
>|   Department of Computer Science   | email: soufi@cs.uiuc.edu |
>| U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | phone: (217)244-2274 (W) |
>+------------------------------------+--------------------------+

alex 
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