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To: stockman_scott who wrote (26469)	4/22/2002 12:03:59 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

The only thread linking the two cases is that terrorism is unfortunately and unacceptably used by Palestinians. This is not true, and Telhami certainly knows it. The ideology behind Hamas and Islamic Jihad has a very great deal in common with the ideology behind al Qaeda. In fact, al Qaeda merged with Muslim Brotherhood within the last year, and Muslim Brotherhood is the sister organization of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Telhami just wants to push the idea of al Qaeda = no political demands, while PA = legitimate political demands. This is false in both cases. al Qaeda had a political demand: the US out of Saudi Arabia. We could have withdrawn, but we chose not to. The PA has two sets of demands: the ones it publishes in the West in English, which are nationalistic, and the ones it publishes in the East in Arabic, which are irredentist and jive nicely with the programs of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The basic problem even for peace-minded Israelis is that you cannot at the moment yield to the nationalist demands without also yielding to the irredentist demands, which is a big mistake if you want Israel to survive. I agree with Telhami about one thing, though -- it is a mistake to call the enemy "terrorism", which is just a method. The enemy is militant Islam and should be defined as such. Daniel Pipes has a good article on the distinction: danielpipes.org