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To: Bilow who wrote (15420)	1/3/2002 1:10:47 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Don't worry about taking a bullet for Israel, Bilow. At the end of the day, they know they are alone (though I think US sympathy for them is stronger than you do, and is rooted not only in the Jewish community but the Protestant Christian community as well). I think that the sorry history of the Oslo Accords should have proved to everyone's satisfaction that Israel cannot make "nice-nice" with the Palestinian Authority as currently constituted. Yassir Arafat is no Nelson Mandela. With some opponents, negotiation does not work, as Neville Chamberlain found out. Not even Hitler lied as many times as Arafat. The Israelis are not a small minority in Israel as you seem to think, but a majority with no place else to go. Israel is very well aware that it has to win all its wars and is capable of doing so. Ironically, the more the situation devolves into open warfare, the better it is for the Israelis, who can then use their military strength. The Palestinians have been fighting an assymetrical war with "shoot'n'whine" tactics; but if the cuffs come off Israel, this won't work for them. Likewise, if the US goes into Iraq and the whole Mideast goes into war, then the conflict will no longer be big bad Israel against tiny Palestine, but small Israel against big bad Iraq. Who will the left root for then? As you say, they reflexively like the underdog, but as far as I can tell they have not seriously contemplated the possibility that the policies they favor are putting the existence of the state of Israel in danger. If this possibility becomes visible even to the most soft-headed, they will do some back-peddling, at least to the extent of not preventing Israel from exercising her right of self-defence.