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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: GST who wrote (115223)9/19/2003 12:59:33 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
I find it curious that you find it so hard to accept that Israel has played a major role in sustaining the violence by making life impossible for Palestinians

Because you do not accept that Israel's response was caused by the terrorist campaign. It didn't come first. You are confusing cause and effect.

The Palestinian economy was totally dependent on the Israeli economy. Most Palestinians with jobs (if they weren't working for Arafat) were either working in Israel or selling things to Israelis. The intifada ruined the Palestinian economy, and the checkpoints were a response to the sending of suicide bombers into the Israel - partly security and partly economic pressure. Do you remember how at the beginning of the intifada, during the phase that I called "shoot'n'whine", the Palestinians were complaining bitterly that the Israelis had stopped hiring them, just because they had begun shooting at them?

That lots of Palestinian youth are in desparate conditions now is not in dispute. However, as we have already established, desperation is not enough to make a suicide bomber, you need desperation together with indoctrination, and if the indocrtination is strong enough, you don't even need the desperation. Was Mohammed Atta "desperate"?
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