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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: tekboy who wrote (23832)4/7/2002 11:13:52 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
What he was saying sounded despairing to me; he ran down the proposed solutions and called them all chimerical. It is hard to draw an upbeat conclusion from this premise:

Instead of Palestinian diplomacy there is Palestinian delirium. This people that demands sovereignty is utterly without sovereignty over its passions. It prizes its passions more than it prizes any politics. It regards a cease-fire, a respite from the carnage that would make possible a resumption of negotiations, as a defeat. It is acting on a doctrine that might be called strategic death.

I think Sharon, who I think has more imagination than most credit him with, but less maneuvering room perhaps, has come to the conclusion that a regime that has settled on the doctrine of "strategic death" must be defeated. Like Friedman, Wieseltier sees the premise but is unwilling to come to the necessary conclusion.
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