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To: Alan Whirlwind who wrote (12042)	9/12/2001 11:18:39 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81083

Alan, I'm not criticising the US for backing the Mujahedeen during the Soviet occupation of Afganistan although there's no doubt that the US "made" Bin Laden, as they did Saddam Hussein --- for its own convenience. I'm criticising the present US attitude towards Israel in allowing the extreme right-wing, fundamentalist Jews to dominate proceedings and control the attitude of the Israeli government towards the Palestinians. It is well known that there cannot be peace unless Israel stops building settlements and gives back certain occupied land. This, the Jewish fundamentalists are totally opposed to doing. Accordingly, violence prevails. Further, because the Israeli Defence Force, equipped with the latest US ordinance, and more, believes it can knock the shit out of the Palestinians they see no reason to give back any land. Israel is undoubtedly a US client state, even a pawn, and what has happened is that the extreme anti-Arab opinion, emanating from certain quarters of Israel (by no means everyone), has been allowed to influence the opinion of the US State Department which is replete with Israel sympathizers. In the circumstances the Palestinians and Arabs have been demonized to the point of being "sub-humans". Moderates no longer have any place in proceedings. If the situation is not de-escalated now it can only get worse and we will see more events, like yesterday, in other places. So, "Big Brother" has to forcibly tell Israel and the Palestinians to make a deal. I might add that the events of yesterday should be a salutary lesson to the US that people in glass-houses should not throw stones (or blindly support those who do). Clearly, the US is as vulnerable as anyone, even more so, and it should now be apparent that war is not in any reasonable person's interest.