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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2120)	8/29/2002 1:28:36 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

It's remarkable how the propaganda doesn't change: Following the 1967 conquest of the Sinai, Israel began to settle the area. Military forces commanded by General Ariel Sharon, in January 1972, drove off some ten thousand farmers and Bedouins, bulldozed or dynamited their houses, pulled down their tents, destroyed their crops and filled in their wells to prepare the ground for the establishment of six kibbutzim, 9 villages and the city of Yamit. The Israeli press comments that "in the background of the Bedouins' stubborn refusal to compromise lies the hidden incitement of representatives of Fatah and Sadat" Note that this is from Mapam, the dovish, left-wing alignment of the Labor party! This is strongly reminiscent of the current effort to characterize the Intifada as a theater created by Arafat, and the same effort with the first Intifada in 1987. Tom

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2120)	8/29/2002 6:42:06 PM
From: epsteinbd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

"Imperialists Palestine reclaiming their ancestral land with stones and small arms... LOL..." When is the last time your local coffee shop exploded with a leatherbelt boy, Len ? Did you check if some Indian native guy, a painter let's say, left his rucksack under your kids table at their college cafeteria ? These small weapons seem to be more effective than Saddam's Scuds, aren't they ? It sure doesn't sound like you resent them, to say the least... Strange, I thought you wanted to be seen as a humanist, Len...?