re israeli destruction of mosque s in jerusalem in article eggertj may moses ll mit edu eggertj ll mit edu writes in article c m jg j bony bony com jake bony bony com jake livni writes i am not aware of any such incidents i have asked you to document your accusation i repeat my request nay demand that you either substantiate your accusation or else desist from spewing more baseless eggert blabber and in article c kn fh cbnewsj cb att com avr cbnewsj cb att com adam v reed writes i ve read most of the history books dealing with this period good and bad and while it is possible that i missed one or two none of those i ve read documents any razing of mosques so i think that this remarkable claim requires specific documentation jake disrespectfully demands and adam requires specific documentation of the razing of mosques in jerusalem if either of them had been reading t p m for a while they would already have seen such documentation for the forgetful or newcomers however here are the references well i ve been reading t p m for a while and here is what i saw you write in article eggertj may moses ll mit edu you wrote for balance perhaps you should mention the mosques in jerusalem that were razed after the israeli victory in an eye for an eye i guess your statment clearly tries to balance arab atrocities by noting a single incident by the israelis in war time at their most holy site you even characterize it as an eye for an eye you also wrote that would be false if you read your history you will learn that right after the war the victorious israelis decided to raze a section of the newly captured east jerusalem near the wailing wall it is in this section that mosques were razed so now you have to find some source that notes that more than mosque was razed you then followed it with this episode is an example of a good government running amok with newly acquired power really do you still feel that israelis are comparable in the running amok with power with say the iraqis your eye for an eye comparisons don t match the realities that most of us are familiar with quoting from the west bank story pages on the night of june an israeli officer marched from door to door this happened to be during a war and a fierce and mighty war it was too would you say that the jordanians indiscriminately shot up ancient structures as is their custom in describing bullet holes in the walls of the city this was war it was certainly not any eye for an eye characterstic israelis do not harbor the same feelings of revenge as the arabs generally do this is one of the reasons that the peace now movement exists in israel and nowhere else in the m e jake livni jake bony bony com ten years from now george bush will american occupied new york have replaced jimmy carter as the my opinions only employer has no opinions standard of a failed president
