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To: zonder who wrote (50131)	10/8/2002 10:42:43 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

If I may offer a theory, perhaps this is a result of long periods under occupation and oppression, where a nation may not be able to see beyond "getting back" to their oppressors. Fortunately your theory does not seem to be a general one. The Poles and the Kurds, just to take two obvious examples, suffered long occupation and oppression but never reacted like this. You could blame it on the Palestinian leadership, but at some point you have to say that a people gets the leadership it deserves. It is very sad, indeed. There really does not seem to be a clear way out of the current self-feeding mechanism of reciprocal hatred and harm between Israelis and Palestinians. It's not easy to see one. Certainly if this is the true feeling of the Palestinians, an Israeli withdrawal would not be a cure for it. A withdrawal would lead to peace if the Palestinians want to build Palestine -- but if they just want to destroy Israel, then a withdrawal is proof of Israeli weakness and a further inducement to war. Edit: I don't think "reciprocal hatred and harm" is quite correct. Harm, certainly, but the hatred is concentrated on the Palestinian side. The Israelis do not return the hate in equal measure. What I hear from them is sadness, even understanding -- "I can understand why they hate us" is often said -- and grim determination not to give in, to fight for their homes and their country.