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Skriven 2006-08-03 10:56:41 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 35807 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: Stupid Lebanese!
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03 Aug 06 10:23, Janis Kracht wrote to BOB KLAHN:

Unfortunately, from a liberal viewpoint that is always wrong.

 JK> Excellent points, Bob.

 >>>>>>> JD>   The only people in that building were refugees from an
 >>>>>>> JD> earlier bombing in Southern Lebanon.  Women & Children and
 >>>>>>> JD> old men.

 >>>>>>> You would think that when the bombing started, they would have
 >>>>>>> moved off to the north, rather than stick around to help the
 >>>>>>> Hez'...

 >>>>>> You would think a lot of things, but they thought they were safe
 >>>>>> in the basement of that building.

 >>>>> No one (note that I'm talking about noone) is safe in a war
 >>>>> zone and you of all people should know that. So do the
 >>>>> Lebs, being familiar with this stuff from birth..

 >>>> Where would they go, and how would they get there?

 >>> North...

 >>>> Walk?

 >>> If there was no transportation, you bet.

 >> A healthy man normally does about 20 miles a day. What would an
 >> elderly person or child do, over blown up roads, in the Middle
 >> East, in late July?

 >>>> Most were children or elderly.

 >>> So, you're saying that children and old people can't walk?
 >>> I wonder what refugees did before there were motorized
 >>> vehicles..

 >> To a great extent, died. Remember, the Israelis were not sitting
 >> there waiting for the exodus, and they were bombing roads and
 >> bridges.

 >>>> Most Lebanese don't have cars.

 >>> That's right, so they're used to 'walking'....

 >> Not for many miles in late July in Lebanon. Not without food or
 >> water, not while the roads and bridges are being bombed.

 >>>> Hired transport was running something like $1000 per person.

 >>> Which is why they should have left the area long ago,
 >>> rather than stay and allow the Lez' to decide their fate...

 >> How long ago? How many Israelis are not evacuating?

 >>>> And when they got there where would there be that they could
 >>>> find shelter, food and water?

 >>> I don't see the difference, they weren't getting that where
 >>> they were.

 >> They had no reason to expect the shelling and bombing would go
 >> on as long as it did. Once it let up they could seek releif.

 >> BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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