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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (20552)	3/3/2002 9:40:36 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "... I still think that if the Palestinians had ever had a statesman who was motivated by the desire to build a state, instead of the hatred of Israel, he might have moved it along the path towards becoming a secular border dispute." The Mexican "statesman" (Santa Ana) who signed the peace with the United States giving up Mexico's northern territories (and Texas) is still reviled in Mexican history books as a great traitor of the country. You want links? Any Palestinian "statesman" who gave up on getting back the land that the Palestinians "owned" in 1945 would be treated in their history books the same way. Heck, in the US, Jimmy Carter is still reviled in some quarters because he "gave away" the Panama Canal. The difference between the Mexican experience and that of the Palestinians is that it's quite unrealistic to expect Mexico to obtain the military force required to unpeel the US from that land. By comparison, Israel is severely outnumbered by the Moslem nations in that area. -- Carl