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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (20587)	3/4/2002 1:27:36 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "King Abdullah rules exactly the same population as Yasser Arafat (Jordan is 80% Palestinian); he's just managed to lead them to a different place." My guess is that if Israel started building settlements in Jordan, and claimed their capital as their own, Jordan's King Abdullah would be in much the same situation that Arafat is in. For that matter, if things were reversed, the Israelis would be executing terror tactics against the Palestinians (just like they did against the British). The fight is not about relative morality, it's about land and power. The problem is not in the Palestinian leadership, nor is it about the details of who is in power in Israel. It's a basic disagreement over land and power. No matter who was leading the Palestinians the issue would be the same. This is not some unique historical event, this is the kind of fight that has already been fought many times over every square foot of arable land on this planet. -- Carl