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Thoughts from the mind of GAmoore@..., 9/27/01:

>In France, during WWII, the French resistance killed some german
>soldiers. Enraged the Nazi's killed about 200 French civilians which did
>not necessarily have anything to do with it.
>
>Today on the news. Palestians explode a bomb under an Israeli army post
>and wound three (none killed). The Israelis fire tank shells into a
>refugee camp. If a tank shell can destroy an armored enemy tank, what
>does it do to plaster and wood dwellings with people inside?

A few days ago, the ?archbishop? (national head of Catholic church -- 
what are these guys called?) of Belgium was on the radio.  He said 
that he thought the era of "an eye for an eye" was over, and that we 
should be geared towards the new testament, Jesus' teaching of 
forgiveness, etc.  Rather obvious and sensible points.

However, he then continued: even _if_ we resort to "an eye for an 
eye", we should understand that this was to be taken literally.  ONE 
eye for ONE eye.  I.e. the revenge should be of equal size and 
proportion to the offense.
(of course heavily paraphrasing what he said, but this was the gist 
of the message).

Now apply that to the above.  Or in fact, to the majority of armed 
conflicts in the world.


cheers,
HJ
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     Hendrik Jan Veenstra
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