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To: LindyBill who wrote (52165)	10/15/2002 10:15:59 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Israelis I know do not back Sharon up now. They are ashamed of his tactics and blame Arafat for not accepting the proposals of before and causing the Israelis to vote for Sharon.

To: LindyBill who wrote (52165)	10/15/2002 12:53:16 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

They voted for Sharon, and they back him now. You are so fixated on Sharon that it limits your ability to see what is going on there. That's a part of the problem on this thread, a kind of all too ready conflation. You are right, of course, they voted for him. But that certainly doesn't eliminate the possibility, that as far as the issue of the history of the settlements, there might not be a great many different viewpoints outstanding. The Sharon govt is the Israeli govt. Certainly. But it is also certainly the case that not only do all Israelis not agree with Sharon on every point. My guess is that on some of these rather critical points--the meaning of the history of the settlements--quite a few disagree. It's important, Bill, to think of the Israeli population as a separate dimension from the Sharon govt, overlapping on some things, not on others. And within the Israeli population multiple voices. I would gues that something like that is also true on the Palestinian side of things.