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To: sylvester80 who wrote (26254)4/20/2002 8:32:33 PM
From: stockman_scott  Respond to of 281500
 
West Bank town reflects faded hope

By Trudy Rubin
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Fri, Apr. 19, 2002

philly.com

<<...RAMALLAH, West Bank - If you want to understand how much has changed between Israel and the Palestinians, try driving around Ramallah's deserted streets under curfew, dodging Israeli tanks.>>

<<...That leaves Israel facing a Catch-22. Sharon can destroy the Palestinian Authority, but then burdens Israel with full occupation in all but name, and endless guerrilla war. The only exit is to negotiate a Palestinian state along modified 1967 borders...>>

<<...Arafat & Co. have blood on their hands, but they are the only ones who can make the deal - and only if the Bush White House leans hard on both sides to make it happen. But the White House is all talk and no action on the Middle East. Which means once shiny Ramallah is doomed to its current, bitter state...>>



To: sylvester80 who wrote (26254)4/20/2002 8:33:07 PM
From: bacchus_ii  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
RE:"I believe that after a nuclear war (no matter where it happens), that the day after there will not be a world left for ANY of us to worth live in. The funny thing is that I'm sure is that kind of arrogance that will get us all and our planet destroyed. Sad indeed..."

Giving power to senile 73 years old warmonger is the real danger. Anyway, death is what they face now, no matter what.They really have noting to lose.



To: sylvester80 who wrote (26254)4/20/2002 8:58:39 PM
From: FaultLine  Respond to of 281500
 
I think now I know what is like living in an insane asylum...

me too...

--fl



To: sylvester80 who wrote (26254)4/21/2002 12:36:07 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
I think now I know what is like living in an insane asylum.... somebody wake me up please!!
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The situation is not that bad, sylvester. "Nuclear Winter", and all the other "Chicken Little" prognostications of the '70s and 80's are not going to happen. Relax! You sound like you should be out with Barbara Steisand, waving posters and passing out handbills, in the movie, "The way we were".