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To: anotherview
Rabbi Aviner asked to note the following: "Even the fact that people died has to be taken in the proper proportions. When someone is murdered by terrorist criminals, it's much worse than when someone is killed by a technical glitch; I don't know why people aren't much more shocked by terrorist murders than by what happened yesterday..."

The Rabbi's right.

I don't know why people aren't more shocked when a terrorist criminal shoots an eight-year old girl in the back with his IDF-issued machine gun or uses an army tank to knock down a house full of civilians in the West Bank. I really don't.

More people should be concerned with this problem but they aren't. Maybe if the eight year old girl or the 69 year old grandmother were astronauts, somebody might actually give a damn...

3 posted on 02/02/2003 1:42:52 PM PST by Ichabod Walrus (I wonder if somebody will clean up the garbage in 2003?)
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To: Ichabod Walrus
Civilians? They gave up the designation "civilian" long ago. They're combatants fighting an asymmetric war without uniforms. There's no moral equivalence between Palestinian terrorists and the IDF at all.
4 posted on 02/02/2003 3:02:07 PM PST by valkyrieanne
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