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To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (144272)	4/9/2002 8:09:50 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578928

Andreas, Re: declare defeat. Get on with life. True (take the "lost" German territories as an example). However, this only works if you aren't constantly oppressed. The hatred has to go away in order to allow a new start. Germany after WW2 is IMO a good example for that approach and Isreal/Palestina a bad one. I think the one that Palestinians lack is a virtue of complete defeat, which I mentioned in my post to Ted. It makes those on the losing side, who suffered a faith far worse that Palestinians (for example, Sudeten Germans) get on with life, feeling content to some extend that things could have been worse. For example, if Germany wanted to keep the flames of hatred going, they could have set up refugee camps for all those Germans who where deported or escaped, denying them German citizenship, etc. But Germany absorbed all of them. That's not what Arab countries did with Palestinians. A complete defeat and no option to return would encourage people to get on with life, start a new chapter. Instead, they live in the past, with a false hope that something will happen, which in reality may never happen. This is obviously a cause of great resentment etc. Joe