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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (329)	1/7/2002 7:22:52 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

Yeah, I heard that on NPR. The NPR lives in hopes and keeps talking to their old friends in the (now moribund) Peace Camp. Even the woman Linda Gradstein interviewed admitted that the trust level was down to zero and had to be rebuilt. I don't think the news that the Peace Camp's "peace partner" was busy smuggling in long-range Katyushas while proclaiming a halt to violence won them any new adherents or helped improve the trust levels, which must now be in the negative numbers. Face it, len: Arafat never had any intention of using Oslo for anything but a ruse. He kept saying so, for goodness sake -- all you had to do was listen to what he said in Arabic! The Peace Camp people are just so desperate to find a partner that they persist in the delusion that Arafat can somehow be maneuvered into being a peace partner despite his own wishes to wage war. It can't be done. It takes two to make a peace but only one enemy to breed a war. Israel's real culpability was to bring that terrorist back from exile and give him his own mini-Taliban state as a base. Sharansky is right: there is no hope for peace until the Palestinians have a democracy; dictators survive their failures by making war. Arafat could never have survived a peace.