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To: Ilaine who wrote (16698)	1/17/2002 10:03:51 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

By couching this as a border dispute, I think you've conceded that the Palestinians are entitled to some territory, the only question is how much. People without territory don't have borders. Well yes. I have always said that the Palestinians have legitimate grievances, just not a legitimate government. (I also believe any considered weighing of those grievances would find as many against their fellow Arabs as against the Israelis, or even more.) I certainly do not think that Yasser Arafat and his merry bunch of thugs is entitled to any land. They will, as they themselves have said (in Arabic) only use whatever they get for staging further attacks, which I think is just what we've seen for the last 18 months. My own preference would be to see Jordan take back the West Bank, which would make sense from every political and economic angle, but it won't happen. The idea of 'Palestine' may be only 40 years old, but it's entrenched now. As Herzl taught the Zionists, a state is not this land or that, but an idea. The Palestinians are also Zionists, after their fashion.