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Speaking of disingenuousness,

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Submitted by Alain Jean-Mairet (Switzerland), May 4, 2006 at 03:39

the terrorist action you mention was, according to the source you quoted (http://www.ramla.muni.il/E_ramla/dani%20mass/kibush.html), but a small part of the successive military operations leading to “the expulsion of 16,000 Palestinian Arabs.”

And what should one think of the equivalence you imply when you put in parallel “fighting out of civilian homes or using civilians as shields” and “live in small isolated settlements surrounded by barbed wire and a hostile population.”

The whole point is there in a nutshell: Israelis want to live there. And Palestinian Arabs want to kill there.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
The Irgun Terrorists [309 words]Fred SchlomkaApr 26, 2006 15:0044257
Speaking of disingenuousness, [89 words]Alain Jean-MairetMay 4, 2006 03:3944257
Yes, they are mixing up terrorism and asymmetric conflict [154 words]Alain Jean-MairetApr 26, 2006 07:0344226

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