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...addition, surely Mr. Bisharat knows that the PLO placed its weaponry in, on, or near civilian institutions like hospitals, schools, and churches. Why? To quote a senior PLO representative, "the more civilians killed [in Lebanon] the better, because of the tactical advantage it gives to the Palestinian cause" (Times, Aug. 6). A Voice of Lebanon broadcast from July 9 said, "Palestinian gunmen are trying by every means to keep the various roads cut off in order to keep civilians in [West] Beirut," even though the Israelis exhorted them to leave through the dropping of leaflets. Certainly, civilian casualties would have...
...Bisharat's accusations that Israel destroyed Palestinian homes, attempted to relocate the population, and conducted arbitrary arrests of Palestinian men are better directed at the Lebanese government which, subsequent to the PLO's evacuation, rounded up thousands of Palestinian civilians, bulldozed homes and refugee camps, and fought against Israeli attempts to construct pre-fabricated homes for the refugees. Would that Mr. Arafat or other Arab leaders have shown such concern for the refugees as the Israelis...
...greatest difficulty for Mr. Bisharat lies with the Israeli commissions's finding and recommendations. Mr. Bisharat calls the recommendations "mild" in the face of "these crimes against humanity." Are the latter words meant to suggest that the only satisfactory remedy for him is, as Arafat wants, a Nuremburg-type tribunal to judge the complicity of Israel in "war crimes?" If so, and if an unbiased tribunal were to be convened, then surely he would agree that Arafat and his PLO colleagues would be, as Alan Dershowitz has said, the first defendants because of their systematic killings of civilians over more...
...also affirm the Palestinians'. They have risen in protest against the politics of terror that Israel itself has long had to endure. By their shame, they shame the killers of their own children. By their revulsion, they expose the hypocrisy of many of their critics." (Times Sept. 29). Mr. Bisharat, though his selective conscience, factual omissions, and distortions, is simply one more of those duplicitous assailants. William Marks...
...George Bisharat (Questioning Israel's Morality, March 5) writes from a stance of moral irreproschability while suggesting that justice in Israel has been "mocked rather than vindicated. "I would suggest that suggest that justice is "mocked" when in the same week that Israel declares her guilt before the nations of the world, the PLO, meeting in Algiers, pledges itself to the continued pursuit of terrorism against Israel I would suggest that justice is "mocked" when Israel is accused of "looting and vandalism" against the citizens of Lebanon without even a cursory glance at the record...