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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (18048)	2/4/2002 11:52:10 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (3) of 281500

The Europeans are quite cynical about all this... I think this paragraph is an accurate assessment from my following the francophone news media. Particularly the line about "avoiding trouble". For nothing in the world do the French want another horrifying round of Paris metro bombings; they aren't capable of dropping some daisy-cutters on Algeria in retaliation. Look at Europe's sitting on their hands when it was simply not possible not to know what was going down in Rwanda. Plenty of time to shed a few tears for the million exterminated after the dust settled on that one. But there's also a latent jealousy of the "hegemony" of the USA which they see mirrored in Israeli society. Much better for them to support the Palestinian underdogs... I could be mistaken, but I don't think anti Semitism plays a major role in this, at least in comparison to practical issues like business interests with the Muslim world. Brussels is really out to lunch a times, like putting Ariel Sharon on the same level as a war criminal like Milosivic. Who are they kidding?

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