mokhtar@ubc-vision.UUCP (Farzin Mokhtarian) (12/24/85)
Subject: Re:Re:The definition of terrorism is NOT flexible! > Is calling Begin a terrorist (which indeed he was) an act of > anti-semitism? The posting *was* objective and well documented. It pointed > out the fact that some Jews did engage in terrorism as part of a movement to > establish a Jewish state. Is this incorrect? Is Aouriri telling lies? > Making up stories to slander Jews? I think not. Would you rather we > rewrite history so as to forget that one part of the Zionist movement (though > by no means the thrust of it) did engage in terrorism? > Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr Yes, Begin was a terrorist but remember that some zionists will even dismiss that by saying that he and his group (Irgun) acted independently and did not represent zionist policy. (I am ignoring the astonishing fact that Begin actually went on to become the prime minister of Israel.) Zionist policy, they would say, never included terror as a political tool. Since it is widely known that PLO, the official representative of the Palestinians, has resorted to terrorism in their struggle against Israel, they can place themselves at a higher moral level before world public opinion. But it is documented history that Haganah, the official arm of Zionism, did engage in terrorism and did claim responsibility for it. This destroys the distinction between official and unofficial terrorism. In light of this, how can zionists expect the Palestinians not to engage in terrorism and how can they criticize them for doing it? Farzin Mokhtarian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Life will repeat my heart."