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To: Mani1 who wrote (2495)	7/26/2001 2:08:26 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

No Mani, it's just not "hatred". You're falling into the "evenhandedness" trap, where you just call it a "cycle of violence" and don't distinguish the differences between the sides. Arafat needs a war to redeem himself from the embarrasment of having turned down the best deal he was ever likely to see in order to start shooting instead. What does he have to show for it now? His only hope is to drag the whole region into war, and he's been whipping up hatred of Jews and Israel (anti-Semitism is a strange term when used for Arabs) as much as he can. Sharon doesn't need a war. He is Prime Minister and would prefer to leave a legacy of peace. He has after all, adopted a policy of restraint when the whole Likud party is screaming for war. The settlers, who used to be his biggest supporters, are now burning him in effigy. The Israeli Left and Center are mourning their lost dreams of peace, while the Israeli Right, who said all along that the Oslo "peace process" was a ruse, are saying "Told you so." Faisal Husseini, in his last interview with an Egyptian journal, called Oslo "a Trojan Horse" and the intifada, "the coming down from the horse." He was in a position to know. Meanwhile, the Palestinians have been whipped up to bloodlust, which is only increased by their sufferings under economic collapse and Israeli closure. When Palestinians kill Israeli kids, whether by suicide bombers, drive-by shootings, or just bashing their heads in with rocks as happened to two teenagers a few months ago, the killers are universally hailed as heroes and martyrs. When Jewish settlers killed an Arab baby last week, the Prime Minister condemned the killings, the killers were charged with murder, and arrest warrants were issued. This is not just hatred on both sides.