NP - Palestinian Moderate Leader's Home Shelled

[calbert at tiac.net]

David:

> Your unstated assumption would then be that if he was not a moderate
> he would be fair game for assasination  (even if there were no
> "massive fire" comming from that location)?

You can make that my "position".......I would consider such actions 
as taking the war to the back yard of the generals.....had they 
targeted "Just Plain Joe", I'd be right behind you with the 
condemnations.....

  His status as a moderate
> was reported in the New York Times, not impeachable, but pretty
> reliable.

The Gray Lady is nothin' but a soiled dove.....but
I would still like to know what YOU consider to be "moderate" in a 
context in which dissent is treated pretty harshly. Even a "moderate" 
arab nation like Egypt jails those Egyptians who monitor its human 
rights situation.

The issue goes to the heart of the mid-east conflict. The biggest 
problem obstructing progress is the lack of "accountability" among 
the leaders of those arab nations who have determined to use Israel 
and the presence of Jews in the region to distract their own 
populations as well as the rest of the world from their totalitarian 
ways. There is an undeniable double standard at play here, and it 
shades the debate in a fundamentally dishonest way (and no, I do 
not accuse you of doing so here).....


love,
cfa


_________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices
> http://auctions.yahoo.com/
>