my fear, ken, is that by Israel going into Lebanon, that would encourage
even more anti-Israel hate and get the Syrians and Jordanians involved and
that it could very well start wwIII. and then everybody would further
resent the Jews.
Tamar Raine
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> [Original Message]
> From: ken barber <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 7/27/2006 4:16:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Disability Rights (now mideast crisis?)
>
> well i actually read this somewhere else pver a week
> ago.
> i think that isreal has been more restrained over the
> years than they needed to be and think that at this
> last attack accross the border they had had enough of
> it.
>
> no one has answered my supposition of what if it
> were cuba firing rockets into south florida. so i'll
> anser it myself. we'd be clamering for our government
> to do something.
>
> isreal is doing what any country would do if
> attacked. they are defending themself by doing away
> with the soource of the attacts. if lebenons
> government had taken care of hezbolah themselves
> isreal would not be attacking them.
>
> this opinion is not a blog. it is based on watching
> what has been happening to isreal for decades. now
> they withdraw from gaza just to have missles fire into
> iseral from gaza. they withdrew from south lebenon 6
> years ago and the wonderful UN and lebenon were
> supposed to see to it that hezbolah was disarmed. all
> it got was rocket attacks from south lebenon.
>
> you people would be appalled if someone stepped on a
> brown recluse spider after it bit them.
>
> --- Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Ken,
> >
> > Since I tend to not trust blog sites very much, I
> > did a little deeper "digg"ing on the use of ball
> > bearings in Katyusha rockets by Hezbollah, and came
> > up with this, from Human Rights Watch.
> >
> >
> http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/07/18/lebano13760.htm
> >
> > I wasn't appalled only with Israel, but also with
> > Hamas and Hezbollah. I'm sure that articles similar
> > to the one written about the impact on the Lebanese
> > family could be written about Israeli families.
> > War, or terrorist acts, tend to injure people on all
> > sides, either initially, or when retaliated against.
> >
> > Here's a little more background on Hamas and
> > Hezbollah (both from the Council on Foreign
> > Relations), for background:
> >
> > http://www.cfr.org/publication/8968/#1
> >
> > http://www.cfr.org/publication/9155/
> >
> > This has been an enlightening discussion.
> >
> > To "pull your chain" a little, here are a couple of
> > sites on Isreal (sic).
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isreal
> >
> > http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/Isreal.html
> >
> > and one from The Weekly Standard:
> >
> >
>
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/161yaihr.a
sp
> >
> > (hope you can turn off the Albertson's flash ad!)
> >
> >
> > Kendall
> >
> > An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> > redundant!)
> >
> > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> > unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the
> > world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on
> > the unreasonable man.
> >
> > -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ken barber [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 3:09 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [C-PALSY] Disability Rights (now
> > mideast crisis?)
> >
> > since everyone is so appalled with Isreal, here is
> > an
> > article you all need to read:
> >
> >
> http://digg.com/world_news/Hezbollah_s_Dangerous_Ball_Bearings
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > This is an article about a student in my town, and
> > > the impact the Israel/Lebanon situation has had on
> > > him and his family.
> > >
> > > Kendall
> > >
> > > An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> > > redundant!)
> > >
> > > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
> > the
> > > unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the
> > > world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends
> > on
> > > the unreasonable man.
> > >
> > > -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
> > >
> > >
> > > Violence hits close for UW student
> > > By JARED MILLER
> > > Star-Tribune staff writer Thursday, July 27, 2006
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Richard Semaan, a Lebanese man studying at the
> > > University of Wyoming in Laramie, is struggling to
> > > keep tabs on family and friends displaced by the
> > > bombinig in his home country. Photo by Jaren
> > Miller,
> > > Casper Star-Tribune.
> > >
> > >
> > > LARAMIE -- Richard Semaan is a busy University of
> > > Wyoming doctoral student, but these days he spends
> > > most of his time watching TV and surfing the Web.
> > >
> > > The 26-year-old Lebanese man carefully monitors
> > > 24-hour news channels and scours Arabic and
> > English
> > > Web sites for any scraps of information about his
> > > embattled country.
> > >
> > > "If you have somebody in the line of fire, how
> > > productive can you be?" said Semaan, who studies a
> > > specialized engineering field called experimental
> > > turbulence.
> > >
> > > Semaan's parents and his older brother last week
> > > fled the Beirut suburbs for the mountains after
> > food
> > > and water became scarce and a bomb exploded
> > nearby.
> > > They're betting Israel won't target the rural,
> > > Christian area, he said.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Something must go terribly, terribly wrong to be
> > > hit there," Semaan said.
> > >
> > > Contact with his mother, a retired teacher, and
> > his
> > > father, a retired accountant, has been spotty
> > since
> > > the move. He said Israeli forces have attacked
> > > communication towers, and the family's rented
> > > apartment has no telephone service.
> > >
> > > However, Semaan regularly discusses the war with
> > > friends in Lebanon who say they feel helpless
> > > against the bombardment. Semaan struggles with
> > > conflicting emotions as he watches coverage of
> > > Israeli warplanes pummeling his country.
> > >
> > > "I can't tell you I wish I was there -- I'll be in
> > > the line of danger," Semaan said. "But at the same
> > > time, for some reason I'm wishing I was there."
> > >
> > > Semaan is no stranger to war. He's too young to
> > > remember the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, but
> > > his family suffered major losses in the subsequent
> > > civil wars that made Beirut a poster child for
> > > Middle East violence in the 1990s.
> > >
> > > "Our house got totally destroyed in that war,"
> > > Semaan said. "It was burned to the ground, and we
> > > virtually lost everything there, and we had to
> > > rebuild.
> > >
> > > "From that experience, I can relate to what's
> > > happening now. It's a big tragedy."
> > >
> > > Semaan was vacationing in Lebanon a day before
> > > Hezbollah guerillas kidnapped two Israeli
> > soldiers.
> > > Within hours, Israeli forces unleashed a nearly
> > > relentless assault on Lebanon that has killed
> > > roughly 400 Lebanese, most of them civilians, and
> > > displaced more than 500,000, according to wire
> > > reports. Hezbollah continues to shell parts of
> > > northern Israel in retaliation.
> > >
> > > Semaan said Hezbollah made a strategic mistake by
> > > snatching the soldiers, and now the Lebanese
> > people
> > > are being "collectively punished" for its actions.
> > > The proof, he said, is the targets Israel is
> > > choosing.
> > >
> > > "Some of the targets are unexplainable," he said.
> > > "They're hitting lighthouses, wheat silos, farms,
> > > factories. What does that have to do with
> > > Hezbollah?"
> > >
> > > Israel, meanwhile, says Hezbollah fighters use
> > > civilian areas to conceal their arsenal of
> > missiles
> > > and take human shields.
> > >
> > > What's more demoralizing, Semaan said, is that
> > > Lebanon had been undergoing massive rebuilding
> > since
> > > the end of the civil war in 2000 and was expecting
> > a
> > > strong tourist season.
> > >
> > > "We just want to be in peace, and Lebanon has paid
> > a
> > > really, really heavy price for the conflicts in
> > the
> >
> === message truncated ===
>
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