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To: jcky who wrote (32956)	6/24/2002 2:45:27 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

So for this reason, you are going to illicit very radical replies from both combatants right now. Funny, you don't get quite the same results from the Israelis, and I doubt you'd take it as lightly if you did. A more salient point is that while there is an Israeli government that retains a monopoly on the use of force, there is no equivalent Palestinian government. Hamas and PIJ have been well funded and allowed to grow great, and Hizbullah is just over the border. None of these groups are interested in anything less than the destruction of Israel. (And please let's not hear any hooey about this being Israel's fault for destroying Palestinian jails -- Arafat never chose to do more against Hamas et. al. than shove them in a closet temporarily. He didn't even do that for the last two years.) I agree that any post-Arafat consolidator would be likely to be even more extreme than Arafat -- especially given the Palestinian political tradition of declaring their moderates to be 'traitors' and 'collaborators' and shooting them. That's the chief reason there has never been a Palestinian peace camp, even at the height of Oslo.

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