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To: tekboy who wrote (20038)	2/26/2002 8:33:19 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"The central problem, as I see it, is that the Palestinians (or at least a substantial segment of them) have become convinced that time is on their side: that all they need to do is wait, continue the terrorism, and outbreed the Jews. Only if they are presented with overwhelming evidence that time is not on their side, that they cannot count on demography to win it for them, will they come back to the table." Not only an ugly comment but this person simply does not know this. Tells one much more about this person than about the Palestinians. John

To: tekboy who wrote (20038)	2/26/2002 11:45:11 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

What Israel must do now is simultaneously tack leftward and rightward. Thanks for posting this, tekboy, it's an interesting and intelligent post. From what I can make out from the Israeli papers, some combination of attack and peace plan is likely to come out of the combined anguish of Left and Right, both of whom Sharon is trying to satisfy to keep his unity government afloat. But I think the attack is waiting for either a terrible incident (hundreds dead) as provocation, or a US attack on Iraq to provide media cover. What's your take on Prince Abdullah's 'offer', tb? Mine is that it was intended purely as a PR ploy (how much credence do you put on a speech he says he would have given if only Sharon hadn't etc, etc?), but there is such a vacuum of new ideas that Washington, with the aid of the moderate Arab states, is attempting to embarrass Abdullah into making it a real offer. It will be interesting to see what comes of it. If Washington can spin it into something, this new diplomatic 'process' can certainly provide a good time-filler while the US is preparing its forces for the Iraqi invasion.