[lit-ideas] Re: Do You Have a Moral Urgency?

  • From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:33:32 +0100

> I imagine that women and children can pull the trigger of an
AK-47 and
> that Hezbollah has trained women and children to fight.

JE>>I imagine we can count MOST Of the women and children as
>>>civilians.

Given what we
> know women of the region are capable of

so unlike the women wardresses of Nazi concentration camps, Mme
Lauro of the French Resistance (and others)...

incidentally, do Israeli women and Maronite (and non-Maronite)
Lebanese Christian women count as "women of the region"?  If not,
is "women of the region" code for "Arab" or for "Muslim"?





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Enns" <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:58 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Do You Have a Moral Urgency?


> Judy Evans wrote:
>
> "I imagine we can count most of the women and children as
civilians."
>
> I imagine that women and children can pull the trigger of an
AK-47 and
> that Hezbollah has trained women and children to fight.  Given
what we
> know women of the region are capable of, see suicide bombers in
Israel
> and Iraq, such a myopic perspective is quaint.
>
>
> Judy again:
>
> "To inflate the "civilian dead" statistics?  really?"
>
> Really really.  Nothing gets the unwashed Arab masses as roiled
as when
> told that many innocent Arab women and children were
slaughtered by the
> Zionists.  To get them tossing candy in the streets, tell them
that
> Zionist women and children were blown to pieces.  Hezbollah
'won' by
> ensuring both.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Phil Enns
> Toronto, ON
>
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