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To: Ilaine who wrote (16709)	1/18/2002 6:47:31 AM
From: SirRealist	Read Replies (1) of 281500

The Palestinian leadership keeps playing on the theme that a slave and master cannot fairly negotiate. So let's consider their analogy. If Southern US slaveholders told their slaves : look, we'll set you free. We'll hand over a big chunk of land. We'll help you put together your own police force and provide them weapons to help maintain order in your new towns. In return, we ask you not to attack us. In fact, there's a few strategic points where we wish to put some soldiers to protect us if you change your mind and decide to attack us. Our plantations will still need workers. We'll hire you and pay you a wage. But at the end of each day, you can go back to your homes as free men and women. How many slaves do you think would refuse the offer? The Palestinians pose the analogy out of pride: they want to be equals before any negotiation begins. There is no reason a plantation owner should agree to surrendering complete control without setting up a satisfactory and effective defense against revenge. But the bottom line is the Palestinians are not slaves so Israel can't free them to begin with. Their real chains are in their minds.

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