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To: Dayuhan who wrote (120543)	11/27/2003 12:48:10 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) of 281500

They knew what was happening and they fought against it. What less could you expect, and what more could you ask? The ability to negotiate, perhaps, and not stake everything to a ruinous maximalism? The ability to organize their own society, so that there was some Palestinian polity to talk to besides one ruling family and their thugs with guns? The Palestinians didn't have the best of choices, but they had both a colonial government and Zionist neighbors who could be argued with as well as fought and stood ready to negotiate a compromise solution. Many other peoples in the world have been in less happy positions than that. The Palestinians chose - and by "the Palestinians" I really mean those few in a position to chose anything, the Mufti and his allies - to go for all or nothing and stake their fortunes on war with the stated object of driving the Jews into the sea. They lost. Any feelings of guilt over the lot of the poor peasants who wound up in refugee camps dissipates when I consider what would have been the lot of the Jews, had they lost.

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