From: chrism@cirrus.com (Chris Metcalfe)
Subject: Re: Deportation vs. Murder
Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc.  Fremont, California
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:17:11 GMT

In article <1gvbffINNo7s@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bc744@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark Ira Kaufman) writes:
>
>   There has been much talk about the deportations in the context
>of their political significance.  I wonder why terrorist activity
>and murders on the part of Arab terrorists directed Israelis, are
>not regarded as politically significant?  There seems to be a bit
>of a double standard here.
>
>   A man is kidnapped.  A short time later, his body is found out
>on the side of some road, dumped like a bag of garbage.  The body
>indicates that he was bound and repeatedly stabbed to death.  The
>murder was carried out by an organization sworn to kill Jews.  It
>is a terrorist organization with hundreds of members.  They swore
>an oath to try to kill Israelis whenever and however they can.

Not to mention that this organization receives funding from
Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states.  This makes the "security 
concern" take on an international dimension -- an aspect that
the U.N. could well address, even if the U.N. doesn't have
the mechanism to censure a "liberation movement" as it does
a member state.

It is the "unofficial" status of these shadow organizations that
allows the enemies of Israel to have their terror pressure, and
eat their international support cake as well.

The PLO, at least, has been censured by the U.S. State Department.

-- Chris Metcalfe

>
>   They are rounded up and booted out of the area.  They received
>money and clothing, and then were shown the door.  This eviction,
>this kicking out of terrorists is being procalimed as cruel.  But
>there has been not one word of protest from a single humanitarian
>or human rights group about kidnapping an innocent man, tying him
>up, and repeatedly stabbing him to death.  Why does the world say
>nothing about this act, but moans about the eviction of those who
>have sworn themselves to perform such acts?
>
>  Have you 'humanitarians' no standards?  Are you so biased as to
>give tacit approval to such a torturous and sadistic murder?  Why
>do you care more about the murderers than you do the victim?  Are
>you indifferent to bloodshed if the blood being shed is Jewish?
>
>   Jews are also human beings.  Many of you may not think so, but
>we are.  Is it acceptable to kidnap someone, bind him, and murder
>him by repeatedly stabbing him, if he is a Jew?  Mr. Toledano did
>not ever kill anyone.  He was not a murderer.  But he was killed.
>He was butchered like a piece of cattle.  And yet you who yell at
>the world about the eviction of people sworn to commit such acts,
>you say nothing about this man's death.
>
>   The concept of human rights is one that should apply to people
>universally.  Furthermore, if one considers deporting a person to
>be worse than murdering a person, one has a distorted view of the
>severity of these to actions.  Would YOU rather be given clothing
>and money, and be kicked out.., or would you rather be kidnapped,
>tied in rope from head to toe, and be knifed to death?


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