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Thread #69772   Message #1189902
Posted By: CarolC
20-May-04 - 01:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: Arafat: Terrorize your enemy.
Subject: RE: BS: Arafat: Terrorize your enemy.
Therefore, I guess we have no right to exist either.

Larry K, please show me where I said that Israel does not have a right to exist.

Carol C.- You state that Israel was founded on terrorism.   (I always thought it was by UN declaration- thanks for correcting me)   I would venture to say that the USA was also founded on terrorism.   If you asked the British, we certainly didn't follow conventional battle rules and were labeled as terrorists.

It was terrorims that got them what they wanted from Britain and the UN.


November 25, 1940- Haganah blows up the S.S.Patria, killing more than 250 Jews.

November 6, 1944- Stern Gang Assasinates British Minister Resident in the Middle East, Lord Moyne.

July 22, 1946- Irgun Tsvai Leumi members led by Menachem Begin blow up the King David Hotel, killing 91 people, most of them civilians, including 17 Jews.

September 17, 1948- UN representative Count Bernadote Folke assasinated by Stern Gang:

"Count Folke Bernadotte of Wisborg (January 2, 1895 - September 17, 1948), is noted for his negotiation for the release of prisoners from the German concentration camps in World War II.

He was assassinated, along with UN observer Colonel André Serot, on September 17th in Jerusalem by members of Lehi, a Zionist extremist group also known as the "Stern Gang", after its founder."


Those are just a few examples. And yes, the US could probably be said to have been founded on terrorism.