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To: goldsnow who wrote (11037)	1/18/2002 2:18:07 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

However, don't confuse politics with morals Obviously, you don't. Tom

To: goldsnow who wrote (11037)	1/19/2002 10:46:12 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

It seems that Israel/US's current strategy to deal with the Palestinians is to literally psych them out.... until the PLO's total collapse. The Zionist lobby want a VACUUM, well, I'm afraid they'll get even more: the whole area might turn into a geopolitical black hole... and the funny thing about a black hole is that it just soaks up everything around it --even light, even the faintest ray of hope.... FEATURE STORY \| February 4, 2002 A New Current in Palestine by Edward W. Said After sixteen months, the Palestinian intifada has little to show for itself politically, despite the remarkable fortitude of a militarily occupied, poorly armed, poorly led and still dispossessed people who have defied the pitiless ravages of Israel's war machine. In the United States the government and, with a handful of exceptions, the independent media have echoed each other in harping on Palestinian violence and terror, with no attention at all paid to the thirty-five-year-old Israeli military occupation, the longest in modern history. As a result, official US condemnations of Yasir Arafat's Palestinian Authority since September 11 as harboring and even sponsoring terrorism have coldly reinforced the Sharon government's preposterous claim that Israel is the victim and the Palestinians the aggressors in the four-decade war that the Israeli army has waged against civilians, property and institutions without mercy or discrimination. The result today is that the Palestinians are locked up in 220 ghettos controlled by the army; Merkava tanks and American-supplied Apache helicopters and F-16s mow down people, houses, olive groves and fields on a daily basis; schools and universities as well as businesses and civil institutions are totally disrupted; hundreds of innocent civilians have been killed and about 20,000 injured; Israel's assassinations of Palestinian leaders continue; and unemployment and poverty stand at about 50 percent--all this while Gen. Anthony Zinni drones on about Palestinian violence to the wretched Arafat, who can't even leave his office in Ramallah because he is imprisoned there by Israeli tanks, while his several tattered security forces scamper about trying to survive the destruction of their offices and barracks. [snip] thenation.com