Re: Re: RE: OT Terrorists

["superpat" <superpat@ccountry.net>]

I too, have very strong feelings and opinions but I will resist the
temptation and refrain from stating them here in this forum and I sincerely
ask all on RC to do the same. This is not the appropriate venue for such
discussion. I am sure all of our hearts go out to all the victims of this
event. Thank you in advance for your restraint.
Pat Super
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynette" <helgeson@ndak.net>
To: "Maryanne Stroud Gabbani" <maryanne@ratbusters.net>; "Allie."
<endurance@weatherwitch.net>
Cc: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 5:11 PM
Subject: RC: Re: RE: OT Terrorists


> I have a hard time having any sympathy or understanding for people who are
> celebrating in the streets because (maybe) thousands of US men, women and
> children have been horribly murdered!!!
>
> Lynette
> > While no one here in Egypt is celebrating, people in the US really have
no
> > idea of how horrible life has been for the Palestinians since 1948. No
one
> > in the US, believing as they do in human rights, would feel comfortable
> > supporting many of Israel's actions if they really knew what life has
been
> > like there. When you subject people to inhumane conditions, they become
> > inhuman. One would have thought that the experience of the Holocaust
would
> > have made the Israelis MORE sympathetic to the suffering of others, but
> this
> > has not always proved the case. Although Palestinians have been living
in
> > that area for centuries, they are not permitted citizenship in the land
of
> > their birth, they can sell their homes but cannot buy new ones....the
list
> > goes on and on. And please don't accuse me of anti-semitism...one of my
> > daughter's best friends who spent most of his spare time at our house
was
> > the son of an Israeli diplomat who was miserable at the thought of
having
> to
> > return to spend time in the army with the possibility of having to stand
> > armed to face people with whom he sympathises. People who harm innocent
> > people are wrong....but somehow it happens all the time, and the
> > Palestinians have buried a lot of children lately. They feel that if the
> US
> > government really put its foot down this would stop. No other country in
> the
> > world gets more foreign aid than Israel...purse-strings could easily be
> > pulled.
> >
> > Maryanne
> > Cairo
> >
> >
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