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To: neolib who wrote (155915)	1/11/2005 6:20:50 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) of 281500

Thank you for that somewhat more contextualized response. As you yourself point out, terror is not an automatic choice to being an underdog; it is a strategic choice. Gandhi chose not to use it; so did the Haganah. The Irgun chose differently; though for the most part they confined themselves to sabotage and blowing British military installations, not blowing up marketplaces. The Palestinians have always chosen terror first and formost, and preferred pure terror, attacking soft targets. That was how Jordan did it when they sent fedayeen into Israel; that was how Arafat liked it. It's not some automatic response to underdog status; the scale of the atrocities does not 'prove' any degree of oppression; it's a strategic choice. And an exceeding stupid one, as any neutral observer can attest, a "ruinous maximalism" as Fouad Ajami calls it.

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