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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (14810)	12/26/2001 10:50:52 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) of 281500

By giving I didn't actually mean giving- I meant allowing them in. Sorry about the lack of specificity. And the UN certainly is implicated in the extreme, but the British colonial itch set up the situation (imo, and that of several writers on the area). The Palestinians kill each other quite frequently, but there are plenty of Palestinians unrepresented by any power structure (imo). The power structures tend to favor gang land style leaders, but I do not think the average Palestinian wants that. Reflect on how optimistic the Palestinians were when Reagan promised to keep the marines in Palestine- and that he would not be moved. The Palestinians BELIEVED him, and wanted to believe him. The rate of Palestinian money to the dollar was 8 to 1 then, and it is 500 to 1 now, I think? Something like that anyway. So the Palestinians had great hopes that the US really meant to bring peace, and many Palestinians speculated on that, to their detriment. These were not powerful people who were speculating, but the great unrepresented mass of Palestinians for whom no leader speaks.

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