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To: Ilaine who wrote (54101)	10/23/2002 1:45:22 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

aThe recent fighting between the IDF and the settlers at Gilad's farm indicates that withdrawal to the 1967 borders is going to be very, very hard for Israel to do. Apparently the settlers have rebuilt the structures which were torn down. Everybody knows that if the settlement comes, the army will have to clear off the settlers. This happened in a small way with the Sinai settlements in 1979. As it happened, Arik Sharon was in charge of the clearing. But if there is a settlement that a majority government backs, the settlers will find themselves without support. Most Israelis don't support them now; just no government wants to take harsh action against them while they are on the the front lines of a terrorist war. There is also an unreported land war in the West Bank; the Arabs also build lots of illegal settments, but the Western press never reports on Arab settlement or Arab immigration into the West Bank (500,000 during the period 1994-2000). I would imagine that it supports the Palestinian argument that Israel never intended to do so (withdraw) in the first place. Doubtless. Say, do you think the Pals should have accepted Resolution 242 when it came out, instead of rejecting it for 21 years? Of course, Israel was supposed to preserve the West Bank in aspic during that time...oops, not reality.