-- On 11 Jan 2002, at 11:45, Eric Cordian wrote:
Not quite. 11 Israeli athletes were captured by some Palestinians. They were killed when the Israeli military attacked the site where they were being held, and slaughtered everything that moved.
It is and always has been the policy of the Zionist Entity to regard its civilians as expendable for propaganda purposes in any hostage situation.
I regularly condemn Israel as racist, partly theocratic nation, ruled by murderous bigots elected by homicidally bigoted voters. But on this matter they are quite correct. Ideally, one would to save the hostages and get the hostage takers. But it is necessary to get the hostage takers, and if some hostages should die in the course of getting the hostage takers, that is the way the cookie crumbles.
That is why, for instance, the Israelis immediately move their own civilians in as human shields when they illegally occupy an area. Referred to, of course, by the Israelis and their poodles in US government as "settlements."
The settlements are not human shields. Rather, they are a way of sending contradictory messages: One message to the world in peace initiatives that they are willing to give up some land for a peace settlement with the Palestinians, and the other message to the Palestinians, that Israel is going to take it all, so Palestinians should move to Iran or someplace. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG RUOe2J4wUtdi7gSqRwzQJwfTcCZzNykzT/f0jdNq 4ms558kBZtkAHyTKBrO3YdKLAgUnZxj+ma650xWcs