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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (118364)	11/3/2003 12:55:20 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (2) of 281500

re: collective punishment The problem here, is not so much that it's immoral, as that it doesn't work. Only a tiny fraction of the Palestinian population is (even potentially) suicide bombers. By punishing the entire population, the general level of anger and despair is kept at a level which increases the number who are willing to become suicide bombers. Which is what the highest soldier in the Israeli army recently said: But to the surprise of many, some of the attacks on government policy were echoed this week by the chief-of-staff of the Israeli Defense Force, Lieutenant-General Moshe Yaalon. In what he thought was an off-the-record briefing, he said he believed that in the absence of a political process the Government's harsh security policies were breeding despair in the occupied territories, and that this would ultimately lead to more terrorism. According to the journalists, the "senior military official" who briefed them on Tuesday also complained that the army had wanted a shorter, cheaper fence, easier to defend and running close to the Green Line, but that Mr Sharon had overruled its advice to please the settlers. commondreams.org

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