From: makowsky@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (David Makowsky)
Subject: Re: Deportation of Palestinians
Reply-To: makowsky@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (David Makowsky)
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 13:50:57 GMT

In article <29851@castle.ed.ac.uk> jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson) writes:

# The affair of the illegal and immoral deportation of Palestinians has
# brought some interesting things into focus on this newsgroup.

	Given the context in which it took place, only an anti semetic
bigot would call it immoral (or, perhaps, someone ignorant of the
facts might call it immoral).  However, given the fact that the Israel
Supreme court has not overturned it, only an idiot would call it illegal.

# First of 
# all we can dispose of the myth that Rabin is a peacemaker, since he has
# single-handedly destroyed the peace process more effectively than even
# Shamir could have dreamed of.

	I will not get into whether or not Rabin is a peacemaker, however
if you believe that there was anything but a piece (an attempt to
destroy Israel piece by piece) than you are naive.

# Secondly, we can also dispose of the myth that
# the Israeli parliament contains a wide spectrum of viewpoints with regard
# to the (surely central) issue of the Palestinian question, since the
# so-called leftist Meretz party steped neatly into line and goose-stepped
# into ignominy behind Rabin.

	I find this funny.  Because one party does something (for which
many of its members thought they were getting talks with the PLO
in return, for which they have taken flak from their constituents, and
for which many want to reverse) to make this charge is absurd.  But
did we expect any different from you?

# Thirdly, we can also consign to oblivion the
# notion that the majority of the Israeli public really want a just peace
# based on honest dealing with the Palestinians, since according to opinion
# polls 91% of them are in accored with the deportations.

	For writing this, you are nothing short of an *ssh*le.  91% of the
Israeli public support it because of the teerorism they are forced to
live under and because people like you bring preesure to Israel by
supporting the terrorists.  If the IRA posed that big a threat, you
would support such an action against them (unless you supported the
IRA).

# On top of that,
# we can see that the Israeli supreme court is not an independent judiciary
# body, it is a political poodle of the government, since otherwise it would
# not have been possible for it to decide that the deportees are now a
# Lebanese problem since they are on Lebanese soil (Great idea for reducing
# overcrowding in US prisons - parachute the criminal into Israel, then it's
# their problem!!).

	Idiotic analogy from an idiot who thinks the Israelijudiciary is
not independent because he disagrees with it!

# As for the debate on this newsgroup, that too reveals some sorry sights.
# I can believe that the apologists for Israel might in good faith debate the
# finer points of the translation of the LEHI letter to the Nazis, they might
# discuss the number of Palestinians in Palestine in 1948 before they were
# "ethnically cleansed", they might even, in good faith, believe the various
# silly myths about "blooming deserts", and other codswallop, but now the facts
# are plain to see, and yet they STILL pop up defending the indefensible.

	The only thing that is indefensible is your charicterization of
facts as "silly myths".

# I
# am sure that Makowsky, Tractinsky and the whole sick crew would defend the
# devil himself if he wrapped himself in the Israeli flag.

	Since you have shown yourself quite ready to be sure of many lie,
this does not surprise us.

# So it is with some
# regret that I am adding the names of these gents to my killfile. I usually
# try to avoid adding people, rather than topics, since there's always the
# small chance that you will pickup some useful information from the 
# unlikeliest source, but in this case it's clear that they cannot even be relied
# upon to give the correct time of day. Adios, amigos.

	Well, I for one will make sure Jeremy sees this.  If anyone else
wants to know how to cicumvent a kill file, let me know.
--
	There are three types of people in the world.  Those that are good
at math and those that are not.

makowsky@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu
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