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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (43118)	9/10/2002 9:59:52 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You can't stop an endless spiral of violence by waiting for the spiral to end. You can't understand a war by calling it an "endless spiral of violence" as if it were a tornado. The Palestinians have been fighting ostensibly for the West Bank and Gaza. Now they could have had 95%+ of this territory by signing a peace. That they chose war instead, naturally leads to the conclusion that they found signing the peace unacceptable. If signing the peace was unacceptable, then they're probably not ready to settle for anything close to what the peace had offered. Thus, the conclusion is that the Palestinians are still fighting for lots more than the West Bank and Gaza. In fact they're fighting for 'Plan of Phases' -- take all of Israel piece by piece. That is Hamas' goal, certainly, and they make no bones about it. It's certainly the message they sent to the Israelis by indiscriminately bombing old and young, Zionist and non-Zionist, inside and outside the Green Line. No rewards...just do the right thing because it is the right thing to do If you just happen to give someone what he has been fighting for, you have just rewarded his strategy. Tell me, what is so hard to understand about that? If you reward a strategy, you get more of it. Again, what is so hard to understand? You sure you really want to reward indiscriminate suicide bombing of civilians by giving the bombers a sovereign state? You really think that will improve the chances for lasting peace?