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To: tekboy who wrote (23859)	4/8/2002 5:21:02 AM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) of 281500

If these kinds of feelings metastasize on both sides--as currently seems likely--then there's going to be some serious hatred lurking out there in years to come, and if that ever intersects with the availability of nuclear weapons, it could be bye-bye Tel Aviv. It may be anyway. Yes? I keep thinking 9/11. If Israel is left to carry the freight alone, it seems very possible. Do you think partial victories, which don't destroy an enemy's desire to wage war, are worthwhile undertakings? Are they not phyric in the realest sense as they encourage the enemy in the correctness of his line? The editorialist at jpost.com may have chosen the wrong example but the Israelis do have to get to this: Shimon Peres still suggested the other day that most Palestinians do not condone terror. That can no longer be assumed. It has to be demonstrated, and that demonstration can only be convincing when Palestinians openly confront the terrorists who deprived them of the over-arching peace deal Israelis like this one offered them only 18 months ago. And right now, the Palestinians can't get there. The terrorists are too strong. They are 'executing' those who might confront them. This is in addition to the large numbers of palestinians who've caught the Perfectly Stupid Idea. The islamist force is now very clear in Palestine. These folk won't negotiate. What are the Israelis (or the US) supposed to do about that? I'm not sure the JP writer is at all wrong. I don't like it, but what I like don't count for much. frank@baddreams.id

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