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To: Lou Weed who wrote (129879)	4/23/2004 2:04:01 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) of 281500

I asked the question with respect to the Arab world, not just the Palestinians I don't think the figures are much lower in the rest of the Arab world. Check out the Pew poll figures for the questions designed to examine sympathy for Islamist purposes and means; there is a sizable pool of sympathy. Christians believe the same thing too and look at the history books to see how many people died because of it!! The Crusades have been over for some time now. The wars of religion ended in Europe with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. That was over 400 years ago. I am talking about today. Today the menace comes from the Islamic lands. haven't seen any Arab nations recently pre-emptively strike another in order to spread their "values and principles" like we boldly profess! Really? Where were you on 9/11/2001? Suicide bombers and helicopter gunships are not working and you've all but given up on any peace process. Everybody tried very hard to negotiate with Arafat from 1993 to 2000. His word is worthless and his actions (and words too, if you read Arabic) show that he wants the armed struggle. So I don't see any choice but to continue the war process until something changes. Israel seems to be winning at the moment and the Sharon plan will help consolidate the win and set the defacto border. If Arafat goes, then it may be time to reconsider a peace process again.

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