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To: stockman_scott who wrote (26544)	4/22/2002 3:30:28 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

A true leader knows how to compromise at the right time. Are there any 'more moderate' leaders that may be waiting to come into power..?? Israel could use a powerful, unifying and moderate voice to help forge a lasting peace agreement...It's unfortunate Rabin is no longer around. That was why Barak was elected...but it didn't work. Right now, I think Palestinian nationalism has been pretty thoroughly hijacked by militant Islam, complete with a suicide martyrs death cult. That makes it the wrong time to compromise, because if you compromise with Islamist terror you just get more of the same. The Islamist demands are crystal clear: no Israel, and death to the Jews. Well maybe they would let some survivors live, in their place. If the Palestinians wanted to send the message that they really only had limited nationalist demands that the Israelis could and should grant, then sending suicide bombers to Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Netanya was just the wrong medium for the message. Because the Israelis got one message loud and clear: We want you dead. Old and young, male and female, soldier and civilian, even Zionist and anti-Zionist, the bombers were equal-opportunity killers. So now the Israelis are concentrating on sending a return message, a very necessary message in their neck of the woods: Nobody hurts me unharmed. There is a considerable consensus behind that message. Did you know that when they called up 30,000 reservists for Operation Defensive Shield, most units got over 100% compliance? Extra men were volunteering to come.