From: dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll)
Subject: Re: War Resisters League on Terrorism
Keywords: skoll war resisters league criticism
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 13:41:23 GMT

In <1992Apr10.214038.3533@polari.com> january@polari.com writes:

>All I garnered from David Skoll's recent posting is:

>(1) He believes Peacenet is hypocritical for supporting an
>organization committed to the annihilation of all Jews
>throughout the world.

That's true.

>(2) He believes that the people killed in Israel's recent
>attack on Lebanon are part of said organization.

No, I believe that only Abbas Musawi was part of said organization.

>I do not feel Mr. Skoll presented any substantial evidence
>to support either position.

I quoted direct statements from Islamic Jihad, statements which appeared
in AP wire reports.  I have many kilobytes of statements from Hezbollah
indicating its goal of destroying Israel (not just liberating Lebanon.)
I've posted some of these in talk.politics.mideast, where you can read
them if you wish.

>The original posting was from
>the War Resisters League, even if it came by way of
>Peacenet.  The original posting condemned the bombing of
>Lebanon on the grounds that people, assumed to be innocent,
>were killed, without making any reference to their
>individual political affiliations.

The original posting said:

> 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.

It's disingenuous at best to refer to either Mussawi or Obeid as
"Moslem clerics" when in fact they are guerilla leaders of an
organization whose STATED GOAL, which they themselves freely admit, is
the destruction of Israel.

>Mr. Skoll cites Hezbollah and other groups' past attributed
>actions, an abhorrent anti-Semitic statement from Argentina,

Actually, the "abhorrent anti-Semitic statement" came from Beirut.

>and the War Resisters League article.  I perceive nothing
>that connects these.

Unless the PeaceNet article meant people other than Mussawi and Obeid,
the connection is plain to see.

>I for one would appreciate more detailed references,
>analysis, and specific criticism and less invective and
>sarcasm.

Read talk.politics.mideast.  I posted a list of hostages kidnapped by
Mussawi's organization, as well as an article from soc.culture.lebanon
detailing the atrocities committed their by Hezbollah.

>The posting from the War Resisters League held
>much of the former.  Mr. Skoll's article contained much of
>the latter.

That's your opinion.  I do tend to get angry when an organization
promotes genocide.  I guess I'm just a bit touchy.

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                     |         | "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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From: reykja@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Reykja Sigurdsson)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 10:05:22 GMT
Subject: human rights violations in Iceland?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA