From: dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll)
Subject: Re: War Resisters League on Terrorism (should be "of" terrorism)
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:01:09 GMT

In <1992Apr13.143417.8587@ncsu.edu> hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU (Brad
Hernlem) writes:

>You included a large list of hostage takings, murders, etc..

Most of which were committed by Hezbollah.  The article from leb-net
was mostly about Syria, true, but included several descriptions of
Hezbollah acts.  To that list we can add one which I forgot to
mention - the bombing of the synagogue in Turkey.  The list of kidnapped
people specifically referred to those committed by Hezbollah.

>Readers please note that in much of what David posted [deleted for
>brevity] there is no reference or evidence that the Hezbollah committed
>these acts and in some cases the implication is that the Syrians and
>their allies were responsible, not the Hezbollah.

See above.

>Again David is
>expanding the guilt of one group to include everything he finds
>offensive. The SLA and Israel have hundreds of hostages in south
>Lebanon, many of which have suffered severe torture. The Israeli
>occupiers and the SLA almost daily shell Lebanese villages (when
>Hezbollah rocketted Israel for the first time during the days after
>Mosawi's murder this was presented as if it happens all the time).

Not by me.  Further, the SLA is a Lebanese group, which shows that not
all Lebanese view Hezbollah as resistance fighters.

[...]
>From the vast examples of what the Hezbollah
>actually do (fight Israeli occupation) I, personally, cannot accept what
>David claims as Hezbollah's stated goal.

First of all, I find your claim that Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah are
separate groups absurd, considering that in article
ncsu.1992Mar31.161827.26150 on Match 31, you wrote:

> In Beirut, the Islamic Jihad, considered the terrorist arm of the
> Hezbollah, issued a statement claiming credit for the Argentine bombing.
> It called the act a suicide bombing, and said the deceased driver of the
> vehicle was an Argentine convert to Islam.

You wrote this quoting the Iran Times of Friday, March 27, 1992, and did
not dispute that assessment of Islamic Jihad.

Secondly, in article <1991Dec4.154344.4856@ncsu.edu>, you wrote:

> Hezbollah, which advocates wiping out the Jewish state, has stepped
> up its attacks against Israeli targets in southern Lebanon to sabotage
> the Middle East peace talks.

So is not Hezbollah's STATED GOAL the destruction of Israel, as I asserted?
Mr. Hernlem, please make up your mind!

>I think rather that their
>"stated" goal is to eradicate Zionism and the evil which it has spawned
>in the middle east.

I can tell you, Brad, that 95% of Jews would consider the eradication of
Zionism as a profoundly antisemitic act, and whether or not you agree
is irrelevant.  The fact is that by having such a goal, Hezbollah has
declared war on Jews.

>This position would be taken by many to mean the
>eradication of Jews but I think that is not what is meant. Jews are one
>of the "peoples of the Book" and they must be respected in Iran by
>Islamic law.

Oh please.

>Because Hezbollah is a creation of Iran,

Wait a sec - I thought Hezbollah was the "Lebanese resistance movement."  But
now, you're telling me that Hezbollah is the creation of a foreign government,
imposed on the people of Southern Lebanon??? Please make up your mind!  If
what you say is true, then Hezbollah has no more legitimacy in Lebanon than
the IDF.

>it would be
>against Iranian law, Islamic law and common sense for Hezbollah to
>promote the genocide of Jews.

Oh please.  Iran had no problem with murdering thousands of Bahais,
so it already has plenty of practice in genocide.  A friend in my
undergraduate engineering class fled Iran because he was under the
death sentence, simply because he was Bahai.  Most of the professors
at his university were murdered by the so-called Iranian "law", and he
(the most kind and gentle person you would ever want to meet) is still
considered under death sentence in Iran.

Iran had no problem imposing a "death sentence" on Salman Rushdie.  So
much for Iranian "law."


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