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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (4849)	9/27/2001 3:34:57 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

I don't know how other Americans feel about it, Len, but the attack of September 11 and everything I've read about it since then has made me far more favorably inclined towards Israel than I ever was before. I was sympathetic to the Palestinians before, but now I realize what the Israelis deal with every day. I don't know where you live in the US, but if it's in Georgia or the Carolinas, you're living on land stolen from my Cherokee ancestors, and if it's Minnesota or the Dakotas, you're living on land stolen from my Chippewa ancestors. Give it back to me! I have more of a right to it than you do, even though you think you bought your house and land in good faith. I don't like all the non-Indians stinking up the place, anyway, so all the rest of you need to leave, too. LOL! Give me back my the sacred places of my ancestors, or I'll make you all pay. Oh, jeez, it would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (4849)	9/27/2001 3:35:39 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Len hoping for much more that that offer isn't very sane. It included most of the West Bank and perhaps all of Gaza. Israel isn't going to accept millions of Palestinians as part of a "right to return" and the PLO is not going to defeat Israel. This leaves the choices of accepting the deal, keeping negotiating and hoping for a little bit more, or continuing to suffer but perhaps be cheered by the fact that your enemy suffers as well. Usually in negotiations you don't get everything you want or feel you deserve esp. if you are negotiating from a position of weakness. Is another few dozen square miles worth another generation of violence? Tim