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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (19128)	2/17/2002 4:51:30 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Continue to exploit the Palestinian issue, generate press in support of the intifada, arm them, and keep the US occupied so they can buy themselves some time to prepare for the eventual "day of reckoning". They've been doing this already, especially Iran, which has the more pressing needs to keep its young and dissatisfied population fixated on an external enemy. But I agree, they figure that if they can make the Palestinian situation as explosive as possible, then maybe Bush will listen when the Arab governments beg him not to do anything, until after he has clasped the tar baby of Israeli/Pal negotiations one more time. BTW, I found an interesting article on the mood in Israel in The Boston Globe, of all places. It talks about how Israelis are coping with terrorism: They recognize that the world's only Jewish state, hated by most of the Arab Muslim world throughout its 52-year existence, is enduring one of its darkest hours, and the anxiety and stress are difficult. Psychiatrists and social workers say many are using denial or escapism to cope, like the Russian youth who claims, ''I am never afraid,'' and the viewers who have made the Latin American soap opera ''Chaquitas,'' a show wildly divorced from Mideast reality, the most popular entertainment on Israeli television. But they also say a marked change in most Israelis' view of the nature of their conflict with the Palestinians is the single most important factor behind the public's determination to endure. Ely Karmon, senior researcher at the International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism, at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, says ''specialists in terrorism have been surprised - some of us are even amazed - by the endurance, the patience, the relative calm of the Israeli public to what has happened in last year and a half.'' ''They are acting this way because the majority feels that this is not terror like we had in the '70s and '80s,'' he said, but that ''we are fighting now for the existence, the character, the soul of the state of Israel.'' boston.com