Jeroen wrote:
>> how *can* there be anything good to say about >> a country that behaves the way Israel does? a country that >> behaves the way Israel does? > Ronn replied: > What of those who feel that the war Israel is waging is a war of >survival against an enemy who will not be satisfied with anything >less than the elimination of Israel? > My first job as a kid was delivering papers; I was about 12 years old. I never paid any attention to the news until June of 1967, I think it was, though that's off the top of my head. Little tiny Israel perched precariously on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea staged a preemptive attack on a force of several nations that was massing to invade them; Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and others and including the substantial financial backing of Saudi Arabia. The Israeli's were outnumbered and out gunned, but in six days: _six days_ they wiped the allied force slick, taking the West Bank and the Sinai. That such a small country could repel such an army is an historical feat. Nothing like it has happened in my lifetime, excepting, of course when the Israeli's did it again in the Yom Kippur war six years or so later. That time they were taken by surprise and almost overcome, but they turned it around and would have marched into Cairo if the Soviets hadn't threatened to nuke them. Nonetheless, these people that had been ruthlessly attacked by a conglomeration of countries many, many times larger and more populous than themselves, these people that had withstood not one but two unprecedented, vicious, attempts to wipe them off the face of the earth, these people sat down with those that had vowed to continue that attempt to exterminate them, and made peace with them and gave back most of the land that they had taken. If you can't anything good to say about Israel, you must not be looking. And that's the kindest thing I can think of to say. -- Doug email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zo.com/~brighto Irreverence is the champion of liberty. Mark Twain - Notebook, 1888
