At 07:41 PM 3/4/96 -0800, Tim wrote:

Let me use the language Bill Stewart used a while back, language which skirts the issue of "right" and "wrong" even more neatly than I did (when I said the Jews were "asking for trouble"):

"If a religious group uses force to expel the current occupants of a desert region, and expels them to just beyond their borders, it is "unsurprising" that those expelled, and their children, and their children's children, will swear a blood oath to drive the group into the sea."

That wasn't me, though I've said similar things about terrorism against governments - those that go out of their way to attack and harass people shouldn't be surprised when people attack them in return.