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To: jcky who wrote (32945)	6/24/2002 12:48:43 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

This is so easy to say but why is it so difficult to achieve? Why has there never been a Palestinian peace camp?

To: jcky who wrote (32945)	6/24/2002 8:01:03 AM
From: tekboy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

This is so easy to say but why is it so difficult to achieve? that's true for all the cases, not just the Israeli-Palestinian one. Governments and majority populations routinely seem to find it near-impossible to handle such a sophisticated simultaneous-carrot-and-stick policy. My own hunch is that the problem is psychological: it's just too difficult to accept the need for compromises on substance at the same time you're cracking down on terror, or accept the need to crack down on violence at the same time you're making compromises. Because everyone seems to have such difficulty approaching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without going emotionally nuclear, it's useful to explore these dynamics in other settings too. I really have no idea, for example, why it seems to be so hard for the Indians not to be a$$holes in Kashmir, or why the Turks can't manage to treat the ordinary Kurds better and thus take the wind out of the PKK's sails even as they continue to fight it.... tb@oftenataloss,andnotjustinthemarket.com