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To: goldsnow who wrote (15565)	6/27/2002 3:59:20 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Talking of delivery, do you intimate that PM Sharon has delivered anything? Quite a dubious claim... if the Israeli press is any indication: haaretzdaily.com Excerpt: One way or the other, to paraphrase the lying campaign slogan that "Only Sharon will bring peace and security," we can say that "Only Sharon will bring adaptation to whatever was incomprehensible and intolerable for others." Paradoxically, this man, who was elected in the desperate hope that at least his lack of inhibitions would fundamentally turn around an unbearable state of affairs - for good or bad, in peace or war - became the herald of acceptance of an almost cataclysmic situation. So it was not long before we not only found ourselves in "the worst of all possible worlds," but worse than that: we found ourselves reconciled to it - reconciled to both the cheapening of life and the loss of deterrence; to economic ruin and political collapse; to a lack of security and loneliness and loathing on the part of the international community, which by now objects to anything we do, from preventing terrorism to building a fence. The Palestinians have reconciled themselves to the fact that they have become one big murder machine (80 percent of them support suicide terrorism) and the West has reconciled itself to the rationale of the terrorist attacks, showing greater "understanding" for the suicide-murderers than for us. [...] _______________________