Posted on 12/20/2001 1:11:52 PM PST by Nachum
(IsraelNationalNews.com) Agence France Presse reported that thousands of protesters participated yesterday in a demonstration in Paris against Israel. According to the French news agency, it was the largest such demonstration in the past few years. Many protestors raised Palestinian flags, called Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Zionists murderers. The demonstration was organized and sponsored by the France-Palestine Solidarity Organization, the Human Rights League, the Anti-Racism Movement, the Communist and Green parties, organizations of the extreme left and workers unions.
The protest was preceded by a confrontation between the anti-Israel demonstrators and approximately 30 youths carrying the Israeli flag. There were several injuries in the ensuing brawl, but the demonstration itself continued without further incident.
You already said it: a wartime decision, in a war the Brits did not start, against a murderous regime.
Hindsight says Dresden was an unnecessary and unnecessarily brutal attack but General Hindsight was not on duty at the time.
Even without "General Hindsight", such a large and cruel operation had to have some rationale at its time. What was it?
Hiroshima is another story. Soviet troops were defeating Japanese army on the land and America provided Japanese government tangible argument to the population for a speedy capitulation before United States. The division of Germany was not affected by destruction of Dresden (which ended up in Soviet zone) so I wonder what was the real reason.
Sorry, pal, aculeus doesn't engage in wasteful arguments about the past.
So you restrict yourself to the discussion of the future, yes? (Present is continuously changing in the past, you know).
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