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To: frankw1900 who wrote (27928)	5/1/2002 3:21:50 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If Fisk occasionally sounds sensible (the point about the PA being a creation of Israel under Oslo has been made by many others), his ideologically-blinkered lack of any proportion quickly makes him idiotic again: L.A. WEEKLY: In your public speeches, you have been suggesting that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict might turn into something as apocalyptic as the French-Algerian war of four decades ago -- a horrendous war that took well over a million lives. Are things that dark? ROBERT FISK: I think we already have reached those depths. If you go back and read the narrative history of the Algerian war, you'll see it began with isolated acts of sabotage, a few killings of French settlers, followed invariably by large-scale retaliation by the French authorities Earth to Fisk: The intifada has taken a couple of thousand lives, not a million. The Israelis have not been "wiping out whole villages", despite your reports to the contrary. Also, as Fisk refuses to acknowledge, Israel is not a colony. Besides, has the Algerian experiment been such a success that you recommend that the Israelis imitate the French? Is there any conceivable point at which the "oppressed" become responsible for their own actions? usually on our behalf. Remember that the Arab states we support -- the Mubaraks of Egypt, the Gulf kingdoms, the king of Jordan -- when they do have elections, their leaders are elected by 98.7 percent of the vote. In Mubarak's case, 0.2 percent more than Saddam! So how does this differ in any way from those Arab states that we do NOT support? Fisk's argument gets us coming and going: work with the regimes, their become our fault; try to change the regime, we become imperialists.