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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (18037)	2/4/2002 1:20:53 PM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I agree with the first four paragraphs of your post, but not the first sentence of the fifth. As I see it, unfortunately, despite the general willingness of most Israelis' willingness to forego maximalist visions of Greater Israel, the actual policies of the Israeli government, in deference to a minority of religious lunatics and ideological hardliners, has been to proceed with a settlement policy over the last three decades that has helped inflame the situation, erode trust on the Palestinian side, and make a final settlement much more difficult. There is simply no way to explain any expansion of settlements during the 90s as anything other than harmful to peace. The fact that some governments have been prepared to withdraw from some settlements as part of a final deal is important and valuable, but their unwillingness or inability to halt new activity in this area is a testimony to the influence of their own extremists, and has helped lower whatever small chances there were that Oslo would succeed. Not to continue pointing that out, even as one points to the Palestinians significantly greater mistakes, is a mistake. tb@truthteller.com