||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Progressive News & Views (since 1982) ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| The Left's Mangled Truth
At Sabra and Shatilla there was no order to go into the camp and kill Palestinians. There was no order for the IDF to do anything except stand their ground and not allow PLO into the camp and Ruth Lapidot, a professor of international law at Hebrew University, per 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, which deals with the protection of people in times of war says... the penal sanctions apply only to a person who either has committed himself or has ordered to be committed some of these terrible deeds.." There is always enough sides of an issue argued and lied about in Israel to be able to pick one out as one's own. The truth, too often however, is the great casualty in a democracy as each position competes to become the new but not necessarily the right position. With the retelling, it becomes a mangled truth. A Democracy of ideas (like voting) is just a means to an end. It is certainly a preferred method to violence in the streets, but the end does not always justify the means nor is the result always the right or correct one. This article is at: http://pnews.org/ArT/BusH/DEmoc.shtml ----- / o o \ ===OO=====OO========================== http://pnews.org/archives/ ====================================== To subscribe/unsub to fightback, send subscribe or unsub in subject line to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================== http://up-yours.us - Fight the Right! ======================================
