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To: Ilaine who wrote (17587)	3/30/2002 12:50:46 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (3) of 74559

World Wars are so 20th century :) The Israeli government can't decide what to do and Sharon wants to hold on to as many members of his coalition as possible, so he continues on this middle route (isolate Arafat whatever that means while killing or capturing as many "militants" as possible over the next few weeks) which likely goes nowhere.... Arafat seems in a similar position.. each cycle gets more violent but I can't see any Arab country attacking Israel. Neither can I see the US attacking Iraq seriously in the sense of overthrowing the government due to the Arab rapprochement with Iraq. Some more serious strikes against Iraqi weapons plants are possible - bit like the Israeli raids on Palestinians... It was interesting to watch Israeli TV and read the newspapers for a few days a couple of weeks back when I was in Israel - you can of course just flip between Israel TV, CNN, BBC on cable TV to get different perspectives such as ordering of news items.... Consensus in Israel was the government doesn't know what it is doing but nobody else can agree on what it should be doing. With the TV off nothing unusual was happening in Beit Shemesh. The national mix of foreign workers has shifted (Romanians are fewer, Phillipinos more in number), new ultraorthodox neighborhoods are under construction, a new "strip mall" called "Big" (in English) with a McDonalds branch etc. has opened, the mayor is snubbing people who didn't vote for him by changing religious kindergartens to secular ones or some "evil plot"... only sign of the "conflict" is a debate about security guards for said kindergartens. Central Jerusalem is almost like a ghost town though with police standing guard on every corner... David

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