--- Stan Spiegel <writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Attacked > by the Editors > Post date: 07.13.06 > Issue date: 07.24.06 > here are crises that complicate and crises that > clarify. The crisis along Israel's southern and > northern frontiers is of the latter sort. Hamas and > Hezbollah, in accordance with their lunatic > assumption that the worse, the better, crossed an > internationally recognized border and killed and > have taken hostage soldiers of the neighboring state > whose existence they despise. The attacks were > unprovoked, except by the attackers' view of the > world. *Five months of economic blockade and the killing of 90 Palestinian civilians in the seven weeks prior to the action in which Gilad Shalit was captured is not a provocation ? Oh, okay. I see that Stan works on the epistemological assumption that, since he doesn't know what was happening between January and June, nothing was happening. O.K. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html