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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (53896)	10/22/2002 12:12:01 PM
From: Sir Francis Drake	Respond to of 281500

You seem to forget, Rabin was succeeded by Shimon Peres, the most dovish Israeli PM ever. Peres' was a short-lived care-taker administration that had no mandate from the Israeli public based on the ridiculous fact that Peres was not seen as strong on security. Rabin could not be accused of that - and so was killed by the right wing in Israel. Hamas set out to torpedo the talks with a series of suicide bus bombings, and succeeded in electing Netanyahu over Peres. Yep, as I said - the extremists on both sides need each other. And no doubt the hardliners in Hamas and Palestian society were quite scared of the peace process - just as were the hardliners in Israel. How nice of the Israeli public to oblige them by electing extremists and so pushing out the moderates and perpetuating the hopeless and escalating war. It is really up to us to whether we give the extremists power, or marginalize them, Bush/Cheney, PIJ/Hamas, Sharon/Netanyahu etc. But the extremists will not solve the problem - they will only make it worse.