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To: SirRealist who wrote (14297)	12/20/2001 9:22:20 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Instead, pursuing an international and local boycott of Israeli goods & services, unionizing workers pushing for better compensation, and other such measures would go a lot further towards a just compromise. And greater support of outsiders could be achieved, as well. Not to mention, a whole buncha lives could be spared. To adopt such a strategy, they would require a functioning economy. First of all, their land is too small to every develop an independent economy, second, the Arafat kleptocracy has built nothing, unless you count the car-theft rings and his cronies' construction companies who are busy building the Jewish settlements. To get to square one, however, the Palestinians need to surrender the inner conviction to hate and destroy Jews. If they had ever been persuaded by the arguments of prosperity and compromise instead of honor, face, and shame, the Palestinians would of course be much better off. But much less like Arabs.

To: SirRealist who wrote (14297)	12/20/2001 10:53:05 PM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

As well, a look through lawbooks indicates that far more law is designed to protect property than people... this generally is true in any capitalist society. I'd also suggest that where governments are concerned, life is cheap, but property is not. Long term if your right to own property is not protected, you won't have liberty and you'll have lots of casualties as folk steal and others protect themselves from theft. eg Afghanistan the last twenty years. Totalitarianism is a very thin disguise for theft, enslavement or expulsion. All are forms of robbery, aren't they?