At 15:54 1/28/96, John F. Fricker wrote:
Besides in this day and age where Isreal is a nuclear arsenal run by nutty rightwing warlords who in their right mind would dare belittle their tragedies.
When the world community has a double standard when it comes to treating Isreal's actions differently from any other country, those "warlords" might be justified in their actions. Can you name any other country that was a non-participant in a war, was attacked by one side, and was told by the other side that they could neither join that side nor retaliate for the attacks (I'm talking about Operation Desert Storm and the Scuds aimed at Isreal). Any other country would have been allowed to participate or allowed to declare war on the attacker (and send a few missiles over as an incentive to stop attacking a neutral party to the war). The US (and the others Participants) were scared shitless of allowing Isreal into the fight since, if let it, the war would have been over real fast and Sadam H. would have been pushing up daisies (The Isrealis have a habit of being able to take care of themselves with minimal "collateral damage" when their hands are not tied by the actions of other Governments telling them that they are not allowed to do what any other Government is allowed to do as a matter of normal policy when faced with aggression).