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To: tejek who wrote (143231)	3/12/2002 5:31:01 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 1576809

Tim, Sharon got the job because he promised to take a hard line with the Palestinians. The Palestinians' tactics have changed little over the past 50 years.....violence has always been one of those tactics. However, the Israelis were fed up and thought Sharon could do the job. Sharon had been offering a hard line for years. But while the Palestinians where negotiating and peace seemed possible, he could not get a majority. Then Arafat started up the violence again and Israelis figured that negotiation was getting them nowhere so they voted in a hardliner. The only point I was making is that violence and repression do not usually resolve the problem. The Israelis would have better luck with genocide. I hope it doesn't come to that. Actually I don't think that its likely to come to that, but I do see the problem as dragging on. Many Israelis now accept that any long term peace (if it can happen at all) would involve them giving up almost all of the West Bank and Gaza. They recognize that continued fighting over these regions isn't worth it. Unfortunatly on the Palestinian side there seemd to be a feeling that if they are determined enough, and willing to accept enough suffering for long enough that things will turn around and they will get what the want, which for many is the destruction of Israel, but thats not going to happen, at least not by the hands of the Palestinians. That's not true. What's not true? That Israelis have become more hardline? that Netanyahu is leading in the polls? that the peace movement within Israel has been decimated? That many Israelis now figure that Arafat can not be negotiated with (other then perhaps a negotiation for a temporary cease fire)? All of those things are true. Tim

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