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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (50215)	10/8/2002 12:39:20 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The conflict was never cooling. The Israelis say so and I see no reason to disbelieve them; the opposite news would be even better for them. The lull has been achieved by greater Israeli efficiency and reoccupation, not by a Palestinian cease-fire. The Palestinians have made some noises about a cease-fire but nothing serious. Since even the noises only came about because they were losing, the Israelis don't feel that stepping back and letting the Palestinians regroup is likely to improve matters. The Palestinians do not have a functioning political system right now, and there's certainly nobody Israel wants to talk to while Arafat is still there. All this "stoking a cooling conflict" is dot-connecting by leftist journalists (including some leftist Israelis). IMO, it's only valid if there is another path of a political horizon, but this is not true -- and only the most diehard Osloniks in Israel even profess this anymore. Before the Oslo War is over, Israel will have to smash the military wing of Hamas. There's absolutely no hope of peace with them around. If you don't believe it, just ask Hamas! It won't be pretty or clean when it happens, but it's an absolute necessity of war. All sides know it. And that is the formost reason why this journalistic prattle about a "cooling conflict" is just that -- prattle.