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To: Ilaine who wrote (37855)	8/14/2002 4:24:03 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Parts I agree with, parts I don't. Even the parts I agree with are only the Palestinian side of the conversation. Yes, the Palestinians were ready to explode after Camp David. But Arafat had prepared them only for war, and had destroyed their economic well-being with corruption and mismanagement. He never even told them he had turned down 97% of the West Bank and Gaza (only the better educated know it, I think), just boasted how he had avoided the Zionist trap. If the street started the riot, Arafat hopped on board right away, creating the Tanzim and Al Aqsa Brigades to keep a modicum of deniability. Meanwhile, the more Israel steps up its military moves, the more the weakened Palestinian population's support for terror attacks - and suicide bombings in particular - grows This is part and parcel of Hass' far-left slant. She lives in Ramallah, she reports Palestinian mood. But if the various Palestinian groups (Hass' nearly-invisible "peace camp" among them) are now questioning their strategy of suicide bombing, is it not because Israel reoccupied Area A in response to it, and not in a nice way? Back in March, the Palestinian groups did not question the strategy and polls showed even higher support for suicide bombing. But the strategy looked like winning then. Now it's beginning to sink in to all the Palestinians that the Israelis are not falling apart, and this could go on for a long time.