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To: Ilaine who wrote (53202)	10/19/2002 1:31:46 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

CB, you've changed the subject -- what we were arguing about was whether it was "well documented" that Sharon tried to forstal real Palesitian truces and diplomacy by well-timed attacks. My position was that there have been no real truces, just some noises about possible truces by people not in a position to implement them. For example, at one point Saeb Erekat was trying to shop a truce to Hamas, who had no intention of implementing one (nor did Arafat himself, for that matter). But the whiff of an attempt at a truce is good enough for the usual chorus of Arafat defenders, to attack Sharon, if nothing else. As for "bombing that apartment building in Gaza City", CB, there are no good answers. Shehada was a Hamas general, already responsible for hundreds of Israeli deaths and planning hundreds more. He took care always to be surrounded by human shields, and the Israelis had already called off eight previous attempts at him for fear of collateral damage -- which doubtless cost dozens of Israeli lives. As many on the board have pointed out (including yourself) it is not possible to fight terrorists who hide among civilians with no civilian casualties - yet in Israel's case, they are expected to. No other nation is held to such a standard; indeed, in the case of the Arabs, they are held to no standard at all.