Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:29:38 -0500
From: ranthonysteele@hotmail.com ("R. Anthony Steele")
Subject: [libs4peace] Re: LibList: National Review's Buckley: 'Israeli Offensive Stupid'
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The two most telling paragraphs of the Op-ed are the following:
What Sharon has been doing is to give way to Israeli rage. The rage is hot,
deserved, and purposive. But to proceed on the assumption that water and
electricity lines and schools and hospitals are vital organs of terrorist
excursions is untenable except on an understanding that General Sharon
hasn't articulated. If you say: The poison that animates the suicide bombers
is endemic in every stick and stone that make up the West Bank, then it
would follow that a destruction of everything and of everybody standingwould follow, as an inoculation would serve to chase down the infection in
any part of the diseased body. Sharon hasn't ordered his soldiers to mow
down every Palestinian standing, but his artillery and air force haven't
been discriminating there is no way to be entirely discriminating in a
military offensive designed to find something that can't be found, namely
the fuse box that causes an 18-year-old Palestinian girl to arm herself with
a bomb and detonate it in an Israeli mall. There aren't, sitting about, neat
paramilitary kiosks with explosives and rosters of willing terrorists. The
search for these was bound to be fruitless, rather like looking for the
infrastructure of lechery in Gomorrah.
General Sharon might have sent in a platoon, pulled out Arafat and his 100
lieutenants and executed them on the entirely reasonable grounds that they
embodied the terrorist movement in the West Bank. A bullet into the heart of
Arafat is not a wayward contribution to the search for the infrastructure of
the evil and genocidal war against Israel. So Palestine would be left
leaderless? Such a problem would be that of the Palestinians who have
tolerated Arafat for so many years.
It strikes me as strange that Mr. Parker would post this article as any kind
of 'evidence' in his support. It reads more like something that I would
agree with, and I'm not inclined to go marching in the streets protesting
for the Palestinians.
So, where are you coming from with this one Terry?
-RAnthony
"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
- Dylan Thomas ( http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1159 )
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