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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (34252)	7/13/2002 12:42:51 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"nobody hurts me unharmed." The people doing the hurting didn't get away unharmed, and everybody knows it. The arrangement is quite clear: when big brother is doing the fighting, little client state stays out of the way. When big brother goes home little client does its own dirty work. Either way, the attacker gets hurt. That threat is not particularly applicable to terrorist organizations, but it doesn't need to be: the Israelis are quite capable of retaliating against those, and the US is not likely to stand in the way. All the US wants is for the Israelis to stay off any country that we are actively fighting, if Israeli intervention would compromise our efforts. That is not by any means an unreasonable request. Israel is not forgoing retaliation, it is simply allowing someone else - someone far more powerful - to retaliate on its behalf.