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To: jcky who wrote (31786)	6/7/2002 2:34:05 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

There are no perfect polls and we can each find flaws with just about every piece of literature or article we present to support our positions. It's like peeling away the layers of an onion until there's nothing left. This may be so, but your blanket assertion that the majority of Israelis favor withdrawal from the territories is still false. It's funny you should bring up Lebanon. I'm sure it's a painful memory for most Israelis and Arabs alike Nothing funny about it. The lessons of Lebanon touched off the intifada. The Palestinians, watching Hizbullah, figured that they could make the Israelis withdraw unilaterally if they gave them enough grief. The Israelis, watching Hizbullah, figured that unilateral withdrawal doesn't bring peace, even if it supposedly satisfies your enemies' demands; it just emboldens them. The Guardian may believe that withdrawal from the territories would end the intifada, but most Israelis don't.