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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (4275)	9/12/2003 10:26:57 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) of 6945

The problem all along has been that certain things never changed Very true. Another crucial factor is what DID change. The one major sea change in 1993 was economic. Up until Oslo, the two groups worked together economically, to a certain extent. Thus, the Palestinians weren't too heavily damaged by the Israeli co-optation (i.e. theft) of the economy of Palestine. Beginning with Oslo, Israel began a deliberate plan to ruin the Palestinians economically. It has been successful. The Palestinian economy has been in a nose-dive for the past decade. <<< historian Shlomo Ben-Ami, a dove in the U.S.-Israeli spectrum, wrote that "the Oslo agreements were founded on a neocolonialist basis." The intent was to impose on the Palestinians "almost total dependence on Israel" in a "colonial situation" that was to be "permanent." He soon became the architect of the latest Barak government proposals, virtually identical to Bill Clinton's final plan. >>> monkeyfist.com Tom

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