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- From: shaig@Think.COM (Shai Guday)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,soc.culture.arabic,talk.politics.mideast
- Subject: Re: Name of Palestinian Deportees (part i)
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 14:31:19 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
- Lines: 46
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- References: <1992Dec26.212407.121@vms.huji.ac.il> <Bzxnpq.Crq@newsflash.concordia.ca> <4601@bimacs.BITNET>
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- In article <4601@bimacs.BITNET>, ehrlich@bimacs.BITNET (Gideon Ehrlich) writes:
- |>
- |> In article <Bzxnpq.Crq@newsflash.concordia.ca>,
- |> ilyess@ECE.Concordia.CA (Ilyess Bdira) writes:
- |>
- |> > ... list also includes RABBIS (one of them killed an innocent Arab
- |> > merchant and only spent few months in jail before getting out on the
- |> > shoulders of cheering Israelis).
- |>
- |> Ilyess Bdira tells us half a story . the rabbi he talked about is
- |> Rabbi Moshe Levinger. he and his family were under attact of several
- |> dozens arabs. He shoot them in order to save himself.he was accused
- |> first of murdering but he proved the atornyknowingly lies at court.
- |> Instead of giving up the atorny change the charge from murdering to
- |> "unprofesional using of arms " - he said that Rabbi Moshe bullet
- |> missed the Arabian murderers , hit the wall and then hit a person
- |> described as "inoccent" ! even the Anti religious Harez daily wrote
- |> that puting Rabi Levinger at jail was an anti moral action.
-
- Funny how my take of the story is neither here nor there.
- I recall the incident mentioned as one in which Levinger
- was accused of having shot off his firearm indiscriminently.
- This resulted in the death of a storekeeper who had not been
- involved in the stoning. The storekeeper was indeed innocent,
- all quotation marks to the contrary.
-
- The debate was with regard as to whether Levinger had fired
- and continued to fire his weapon after the danger had passed,
- or whether his response could be considered justifiable.
-
- The paper "Ha'aretz" is not vehemently anti religious as much
- as objective and based on a non-religious viewpoint. Of course
- this can often lead to conflicts with religious principles
- and policies.
-
- As to my personal opinion of the incident, I think that the price
- Levinger paid for his mistake was not consistent in that had
- anyone but a palestinian been killed, the period would have been
- greater. Yes, this is mere conjecture on my part but in general
- manslaughter does carry a longer sentence.
-
-
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