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To: quehubo who wrote (26286)	4/21/2002 12:02:44 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Victor Hanson agrees with you about the mood in the heartland: Palestinians cry massacre, but, in fact, they now at last have the fighting their leadership asked for. While the world rightly asks Israel to follow the accepted rules of fighting, it is slowly coming to the realization that men in jeans and sneakers who shoot guns from apartment terraces and blow up children are bona fide combatants of the worst sort — and in the past, combatants who were far more humane folk than these have died in wars. I gave a lecture the other evening at a local civic organization, and a questioner summed up the mood of the audience with, "Well, those Palestinians wanted a war, and now they pretty much got their wish. So let's see how well they do when the Israelis shoot back." nationalreview.com

To: quehubo who wrote (26286)	4/21/2002 12:33:35 AM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 281500

<<I just moved to Midwest and find many people here fully supporting Israel.>> <<I am really finding the support here for the Palestinians hard to believe>> Thanks. It could be that the on-line crowd is so overbombarded with information and so overmanipulated that some sort of psychological defaults kick in, and a person begins to beleive anything - and nothing, and starts searching for 'middle grounds' that don't exist, and gradually looses one's roots and perspective. Oscar Wilde said many years ago, (from memory) that if a man is a gentleman, he knows everything he needs to know, and if he is not a gentleman, knowledge will only hurt him. By the same token, with billions of pages on the Web, and with millions of Sites and players, and with big money and big interests building those pages, one can find links and proof for any dogsh*t to be gold, and unless one is well brought up and is standing psychologically and morally on firm ground, one is liable to get confused and join the misguided herd…