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To: sylvester80 who wrote (26306)	4/21/2002 1:33:26 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

before it is too late and we've past the point of no return. History shows that problems like this one are not solved overnight. I will confidently predict that it will still be with us in some form 50 years from now. This much hate on a thousand year old Religious war is going to take a long time to solve. All we can do, IMO, is try to defuse it enough to keep it from getting too much worse. Look at Ireland. The problem with the British there is only about 500 years old, of much less intensity, and still will not go away.

To: sylvester80 who wrote (26306)	4/21/2002 5:17:18 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

The final blow Palestine's time has come, writes Mustafa Barghouthi: the occupation must end Al-Ahram Weekly Online 18 - 24 April 2002 Issue No.582 Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM ahram.org.eg -------------------------------------------------------- <<...As I write this, Israel's so called "war against terrorism" is entering its 16th day. Since Israel began its military assault on the towns, cities and refugee camps of the West Bank, its troops have killed several hundred people at least -- the majority of whom were civilians -- and injured almost 3,000. To call this a war against terror is a lie; Sharon only calls it that to legitimise the violence in the eyes of the international community, and to justify his campaign of bloodshed and destruction....>> <<...Two years ago, what is happening now was unimaginable. Who would have thought that a man like Sharon, who has lawyers and legal experts attempting to try him for war crimes, would be able to bring the United States, Israel, Palestine and the rest of the world to this point -- teetering on the edge of the abyss of uncontrollable violence and warfare?...>> <<...As a doctor, I would kill the patient if I treated only the symptoms of the disease and not the cause. Yet this is precisely what Sharon and his national coalition government are doing. The occupation is a cancer eating away at the lives of both peoples. We can "heal" both peoples by ending the occupation, not by expanding the occupation and killing the occupied people. We need reasonable people on both sides to have the courage to say yes -- there is a way to peace, we need to move beyond the horrors of today toward a two-state solution. That can only happen, however, if the occupation is ended fully and unequivocally...>> <<...The world must understand: there comes a time when people cannot take injustice any longer, and this time has come to Palestine. Palestinians have reached this point, and will never give up their struggle for freedom and independence and a dignified life...>> _________________________ The writer is president of the Palestinian Medical Relief Committees and director of the Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute (HDIP) in Ramallah. © Copyright Al-Ahram Weekly.