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To: maceng2 who wrote (418)	1/11/2002 10:00:23 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 6945

Well, you are assuming that the authorities that control the Palestinians are the end all of all control...They are not! Even if they were effective as Stalin, even he paid lots of notice to what the ground movements were up to. Sure he did...to send them to the gulag. It's not particularly healthy to express wishes contrary to Arafat's in the PA either. Sure, shoot a bomber when you see one, otherwise don't increase the divide amongst ordinary peaceful Palestinians PB, from your own words, you understand that Arafat is the "head of the serpent", bent on destroying Israel. You understand that the Palestinians have been waging a purposeful campaign, attacking and bombing Israeli targets and civilians while being willing and even eager to take casualties as part of the PR campaign. Yet this response means to me that you haven't understood the implications of your own words. The intifada is a war situation, low-grade, but still a war. The peaceful Palestinians are locked behind closed borders and are suffering already. In such a situation, weak and sporadic responses to continual attacks do not win you the hearts of the enemy civilians; it just means that you will lose the war of attrition.

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