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To: carranza2 who wrote (31663)	6/6/2002 2:37:49 PM
From: paul_philp	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Your point is obvious. To protect vital national interests is the only reason why any nation should engage in hostilities against another. Why the should in your statement? War is not an issue of right or wrong. War is an issue of can or cannot. Either I can take over your land or I cannot. From the Israeli side, it is clearly self-preservation Oh come on. If it was simple self preservation why not return to the 1967 borders and have done with it? Why expand settlements into the West Bank? This Israeli agenda is much more ambigous than you suggest and the population is much more ambivalent about the palestinians. The PA's continued terrorism is therefore ultimately irrational and self-destructive. This truth will, I hope, sink in soon enough. I hope it happens before a more widespread conflagration hurts the Palestinians in a very serious way. The PA is simply crazy and operating with no sense of purpose and with no intention. I think it much more likely that the palestinian people are deeply split and managing a overall coaltion is very difficult. I think Arafat has been a lousy leader but I think he and the PA are far from crazy. Paul