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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (3085)	9/3/2001 12:26:54 AM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 23908

Obviously, I wasn't posting that article for the material we have already seen. I was posting it for the elucidation of Israel's actions vis a vis Syria. It is well known that Israel provoked the war with the Syrians to gain land, and Israeli officials have admitted this obvious fact since then. Israel provoked Syria, and this drew Egypt into the fray. Also, I posted it for this rebuttal to your claptrap about Egypt's closure of the Straits of Tiran: The closure of the Straits did not force Israel into war. Claims of economic strangulation were absurd since only 5 percent of Israel's trade depended on free movement through the Straits of Tiran. No Israeli merchant vessel had passed through the Straits during the previous two years (Michael Howard and Robert Hunter, Israel and the Arab World: the Crisis of 1967, Adelphi Papers 41, Institute for Strategic Studies, 1967, p. 24). Tom

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (3085)	9/3/2001 5:36:38 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

Follow-up on Turkey... turkishdailynews.com Excerpt: Asked if they obtained some extra cash, how they would use it, 26.5 percent said they would invest in real estate, 23.1 percent said they would use it in trade, 17.1 percent said they would buy foreign currency, 9 percent said they would put it in a bank as Turkish lira, 8 percent said they would buy gold or other metals while 2.9 percent said they would invest in the stock market. Asked what the top news of the past month was, 29.5 percent said the murder of [Jewish] businessman Uzeyir Garih was the most important development followed by the economic crisis with 25.4 percent. Asked what the major threat to the country is, 33.1 percent said the economic crisis, 10 percent said the threat of a social explosion, 8.9 percent said neighboring countries such as Iran, Greece, Iraq, Russia, Armenian and Syria, 6 percent said the United States, 5.7 percent said unemployment, 3.4 percent said Europe, 3.4 percent said terrorism and 3.4 percent said Islamic fundamentalism. [snip]