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To: JohnM who wrote (41411)	9/1/2002 5:32:19 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The presence of the settlements just serves as an almost perpetual recruitment mechanism for him, serving up angry, dispossessed Palestinians. Without the settlements, that recruitment process is gone Say what? The angry, dispossessed Palestinians -- such as the inhabitants of Jenin refugee "camp" -- carefully kept unsettled and in squalid conditions, date from 1948. The new settlements are built between the existing towns; they don't replace them, and on land that is generally government-owned, as is most land in Israel/Palestine. They have contributed few dispossessed Palestinians. Think about it. In all the parade of Palestinian grievances, where have you seen the cries of "these thousands of Palestinians were ethnically cleansed by the new Zionist land-grab of the settlements?" If it had happened that way, you know the Palestinians would not have been backwards in using it to aid their cause. The settlements are a relatively minor grievance in the Palestinian scheme of things, John. The Palestinians just figured out that they played well to a Western audience, so they made them a cover for everything else. The real grievance is still the creation of Israel and the War of 1948, which is still going on in a sense in today's intifada.