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To: SirRealist who wrote (14135)	12/19/2001 2:37:40 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

From the Jerusalem Post: (20:45) Poll: Hamas, Islamic Jihad tops in popularity Palestinian public support for Hamas and Islamic Jihad has overtaken support for the secular Fatah movement for the first time since the outbreak of violence in September 2000. According to the results of a poll released today by Jerusalem Media and Communication Center, support for Fatah decreased from 29.2 percent in September to 26.1% in this poll. Support for Hamas and Islamic Jihad received a combined figure of 26.6%. Just over 30% of the Palestinian public does not trust any political or religious faction. Almost 50% of Palestinians said the "ultimate goal of the current Intifada is to end occupation on the basis of UN Security Council resolution 242 and the establishment of the Palestinian state." Almost 40% believe the end goal of the current violence is a Palestinian state from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River. A majority of the Palestinian people (71.9%) do not see the recent arrests of militants by the Palestinian Authority as justifiable. A random sample of 1,201 people over the age of 18 were interviewed by JMCC. The poll's margin of error is 3%.

To: SirRealist who wrote (14135)	12/19/2001 5:03:25 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<Sharon believes in the siege approach (you kill one ? I kill three) which is like watching a Holocaust in slow motion.> Who started it? I guess there are two opinions on that and they want to go back to "Once upon a time, Ramses VI, was feeling poorly so they built a big stack of rocks and buried him in it when he died. Some wacky slaves didn't like the political system, being whipped and stuff, so there developed a Labour Party which wanted the proletariat to run the show. Down with the aristocracy they said, and off with their head and the tumbrils rolled. A thousand years later, a young lady got pregnant, as they tended to do, but thinking she'd get in trouble, made out that it was magic and that she really, truly, hadn't done anything to cause it. Well, not everyone believed that story and there was a huge diaspora. After a lot of fighting, pogroms and murder, the British won with some New Zealand help [the Yanks provided chewing gum and bombs that could land in a barrel, on a statistical basis anyway]. So, like a Big Black Hole, the whole lot converged again back into the gravitational nucleus and many people went below the event horizon and great was the mayhem and jostling in very, very crowded conditions, as it is in black holes from where light never shines. Anyway, Mr Arafat said "You started it". Mr Sharon said "You started it". So, like any two naughty little boys in a sandpit, they started getting a lot of sand in everyone's eyes". Then King Mq hired the USA who got the UN to take over the bloody place and set some new rules. And peace reigned for a thousand years. The End. Mq