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To: maceng2 who wrote (16436)	1/14/2002 6:43:37 PM
From: blankmind	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Pearly - i promised Faultline i'd be nicer - so how can i say this? - I don't believe the hype about Rabin being a man of peace. It's like a pet owner sending his dog poodle to play and make peace with a caged lion at the zoo - would you say it's an act of peace? or would you say the dog owner is somewhat responsible for what the lion does to the poodle?

To: maceng2 who wrote (16436)	1/14/2002 8:10:27 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

So the suggestion is... If he had not made any peace initiative there would not have been any suicide bombers?? In all seriousness, far fewer bombers and Israel would have been in a much stronger position to deal with them. If they had maintained their hard-ass attitude, they would have had trouble, certainly. But they would not have had a terrorist regime parked within 10 miles of all their major cities. The Oslo accords were based on the premise that Arafat, when sufficiently bribed, would turn over a new leaf, become a legitimate head of state and build a Palestinian state. Everyone one knew that Israel was taking a big risk for peace -- they were giving tangible goods, land and guns and international legitimacy, in return for promises of good behavior. The critics said at the time that Arafat had always been a terrorist and would remain a terrorist, that he would only use the land as a staging ground for the next round of attacks, that once Arafat was legitimized as a quasi head of state it could not be taken back no matter how Arafat actually behaved, and that in short, the Oslo Peace Accords would breed the Oslo War. Everything the critics warned of has come to pass.