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To: stockman_scott who wrote (27911)	5/1/2002 1:20:53 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

All the while, most of the Palestinian people lived in misery under Israeli rule or as refugees in Arab countries, trapped between Israel's "never again" creed and the bluster of Arab dictators who exploited the refugees' living condition to divert attention from their own tyrannical rule. Ahistorical nonsense, typical for the LA Times. Read Friedman's From Beirut to Jerusalem to learn about the real conditions. The Palestinians in the territories were economically coopted by Israel after 1967 and their material conditions improved substantially. Until the first intifada broke out, there wasn't even a marker at the border, let alone checkpoints. What they suffered from was not misery (except for the minority in the UNWRA-run camps), but mental unwillingness to go along with the Israelis. Friedman notes that they developed a class of professional complainers about the "brutal Israeli occupation", but that most Palestinians got on fine.

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