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        11:42 AM, September 10, 2006
      
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        Refusenik, Soviet dissident;  translated for Andrei Sakharov;
      
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        mathematician from Moscow Instit of Physics and Tech.
      
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        He was in prison for nine years.  In solitary confinement for years.
      
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        Was a chess prodigy;  once beat Gary Kasparov.
      
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        Now is member of parliament and member of Likud Party (right wing coalition party).
      
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        1) Moral Clarity:  Hezbollah used civilians as human shields for their missiles.  Shot 
        4,000 missiles into
      
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        Israeli cities.  150 deaths.  1/3 of Israel population was in shelters.
      
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        Britain was hit with 4,000 missiles by Germany;  it sent RAF into Dresden etc. to firebomb 
        those cities full
      
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        of women and children.
      
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        Israel showered Lebanon with leaflets to advise people to get out ... that they were 
        planning bombing raids.
      
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        They only targeted missile sites,  bridges and other structures where arms could be 
        resupplied.
      
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        2)  Hezbollah high command was meeting in one bldg that Israel knew about.  It was in the 
        midst of civilians.
      
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        Instead of using 5,000 lb bomb they used much smaller bomb to protect civilians.  Because 
        of that,
      
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        the commanders were only sl injured.
      
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