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To: JohnM who wrote (24937)	4/13/2002 2:46:02 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

John, do you believe the supposed 'facts' laid out in Ending the Dance of Death? This article, like so many before it, urged pressure and support for the 'moderate' Arafat so he might control the 'extremists'. Do you really believe this? Can any rational person still believe that Arafat is not leading and financing the terrorist campaign? Even the pro-Palestinian spokesmen are giving up making a distinction between Fatah and Hamas, and have basicly switched to saying, 'if Israel has tanks why shouldn't we have suicide bombers? Everybody does terrorism.' Like the editorial by Jim Goldsborough just posted on this thread Jews, of course, know oppression better than anyone, and that is why they must be called to account when they are guilty of it. There shall be no double standards. If it is wrong for one people to oppress another, it is wrong for all people. All "terrorism" is not the same. We can try to come up with a definition of terrorism, as Muslim foreign ministers tried in vain last week, but it is useless. Lots of people, in support of the Palestinian cause, seem to be segueing into support of men who pack young boys' and girls' blouses with Semtex and send them off to die in the process killing as many random Jews as possible. They are not displaying much discomfort at this argument either. Instead, they piously proclaim "There shall be no double standards." I don't know whether to cry or scream -- the middle east is nothing but one long immense double standard. Do these people have any objective standards of morality? Do they really mean to advance the argument that if you can manage to proclaim yourself 'oppressed' or 'occupied', then it's Liberty Hall, anything goes? They should be careful, what goes around comes around. I would be sorry to see you join their company. Here's a Jerusalem Post article describing some of the very interesting signed invoices that the Israelis have been finding in Arafat's papers: Message 17326730