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To: Katelew who wrote (26109)	4/19/2002 4:32:22 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

I'm curious why you think this would bring any real benefit to the Palestinians other that the obvious one of stopping the retaliatory violence? No justification for violence retaliation, more justification for international humiliation in the eyes of the world. It's the concept of obtaining strength from weakness... I mean.. let's face it.. Jews, as a stereotype, have a reputation for always feeling guilty about something... :0) And it's especially the case with regard to being accused of "oppressing" other people, since throughout their history they have been the oppressed and dislocated. So what better way to obtain what you want than by making them pack their bags and sending them on a major guilt trip?? And from most Israeli's point of view, they just want some peace and quiet and a place where they know that some other power isn't going to try and exterminate them. And I would disagree about not having leverage. If they had a leader to espoused peaceful passive resistance even half as much as he shouts for "Jihad", the Israelis would have been humiliated into granting them a state... assuming that it's a state, and not the destruction of Israel that is the Palestinian agenda. They could launch massive peaceful demonstrations that interfere with Israeli trade and commerce.. all without hurting anyone. Let the Israelis use rubber bullets then, let alone real ones, and see how the world views them.. What's really sad about all of this, is that the people in that region have suffered because they been caught in the middle of a regional power struggle. They in limbo, with their former kingdom, Jordan, abandoning them, while the Israelis keep them demographically at arm's length since granting them Israeli citizenship would skew the voting population. So many years of lost development and wasted resources because of Arafat's corruption and cynical rule, all that is left are children who know only how to throw rocks and blow themselves up to collect 72 raisins. Hawk