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To: jcky who wrote (55765)	11/5/2002 1:01:01 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

supporting these losers. If the Palestinians keep cutting their own throat, the Zionists may turn out to be winners. Looking down the road, the potential for a Palestinian State keeps getting smaller and smaller. If they won't face reality, they may end up with little or nothing.

To: jcky who wrote (55765)	11/5/2002 1:06:12 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

how does that reconcile with the Israelis' current obsession of expanding the occupation and colonization of the West Bank I don't really think that all that much expansion is going on. I'm not sure, but you must remember that all these reports are from Peace Now or Palestinian sources, so the settlers stick up a trailer, and the report screams, half the West Bank has been colonized! It's hard to find a neutral source to see what is really going on. There's an on-going low-grade land struggle, and lots of new Arab settlements go up too, but those do not get reported on at all. From what I'm reading, I think the Israelis are continuing to work increasing Jewish areas around Jerusalem. The religious-Zionist settlers are trying to expand and the current government neither really permits nor denies this. I think the thinking is, that there is no real reason to haul back the settlers while the Palestinians continue to put their hopes in war, it would just look like surrender to them anyway. Let a real peace-partner demand it, they're not about to give it to Arafat.