--- Margaret Mascarenhas wrote: > > The fact that an estimated 25000 people die of > hunger and poverty in the world EVERY DAY. The > virtual genocide of the Palestinians. The dangerous > descent of Iraq into civil war and the complete > destabilization of the Middle East. > --- afra dias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I ask? > What has Pelestinian/Israeli affairs got to do with > Goan affairs? > Mario adds: > Afra, Not only is there no connection, but Margaret's examples are also lacking in facts and perspective. > For example, I estimate that the figure of 25,000 people supposedly dying of hunger and poverty each day is bogus. > It is patently absurd to describe as "genocide" the unintentional deaths of Palestinian civilians while Israel tries to defend its own people against the violent Palestinians groups that have been trying to wipe it off the map for 58 years. > No definition of civil war fits the situation in Iraq since all the major sects in Iraq, namely the Shia, Kurds and Sunni are all participating in the national government and fighting to stop the sectarian violence that is being fomented by an outside force of religious oriented fascists called Al Qaeda, who are killing people from all the Iraqi sects in order to instigate anarchy. > The sectarian violence in Iraq is no more a civil war than the Catholic-Protestant sectarian violence in Britain was a civil war. >
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