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To: Alighieri who wrote (155417)	11/29/2002 7:28:45 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578936

Al, just heard on the news that the Bush administration will renew its effort to get Israel to develop a "new road map" that will lead to a Palestinian state. There is some hope that they are starting 'to get it'. In the meantime, Sharon is working over time to get us enmeshed in their messes. Its infuriating, and it looks like Sharon will get reelected in January. ted ___________________________________________________________ Israel Destroys Gunmen's Homes RAMALLAH, West Bank (Nov. 29) - Israeli troops on Friday blew up the homes of two Palestinian gunmen who attacked an office of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud Party during a primary vote, killing six Israelis and wounding more than 20. The gunmen, cousins from a West Bank village, were members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, a militia linked to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction. In the Gaza Strip, meanwhile, two more gunmen dispatched by the militant Islamic Hamas movement opened fire Friday in the Jewish settlement of Dolah, wounding two Thai workers and an Israeli. One of the gunmen was killed. The Palestinian Authority condemned Thursday's shooting rampage at the Likud branch office in the northern Israeli town of Beit Shean, and said Fatah was not involved in any way in the attack. ''Such operations do not serve the Palestinian people's cause,'' it said in a statement. ''On the contrary, they harm our cause.'' A poll published Thursday found that a majority of Palestinians want their security forces to crack down on militants attacking Israel - a shift that coincides with unprecedented criticism from Arafat's deputy, Mahmoud Abbas, of two years of violence against Israel. The two developments indicate that Palestinians are souring on their uprising, called ''intefadeh'' in Arabic, after the death of almost 2,000 Palestinians and 700 Israelis in clashes, military operations and terror attacks. The poll, by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, indicated that Palestinians still strongly favor attacks against Israeli settlers and soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza - lands claimed by the Palestinians for their own state - but 56 percent favor steps by the Palestinian Authority to stop attacks in Israel. As recently as May, a similar poll showed that 86 percent of Palestinians opposed arresting Palestinian militants involved in suicide bombings inside Israel. The poll questioned 1,319 people in personal interviews from Nov. 14-22 and quoted a margin of error of 3 percentage points. In Friday's house demolitions, Israeli troops entered the West Bank village of Jalboun before dawn and blew up the homes of the Beit Shean gunmen Omar and Yousef Abu Rub, both in their 20s, who were killed in Thursday's attack. Eighteen people were left homeless by the demolitions. The Al Aqsa militia said in a statement it attacked the Likud branch in Beit Shean to avenge the deaths of two militia leaders in an explosion in the Jenin refugee camp earlier in the week. The militia blamed Israel for the blast, but Israel has denied any involvement. Responding to the Beit Shean shooting and twin attacks on Israeli tourists in Kenya, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said they were ''an attempt by the terrorists to influence the democratic elections and democratic process in Israel.'' Sharon easily won Thursday's Likud primary, crushing his challenger, Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, by almost 56 percent to 40 percent, according to final results issued Friday afternoon. A lesser-known challenger, American-born Moshe Feiglin, received about 3 percent, Likud spokesman Shmuel Dahan said. Sharon also is favored to win re-election in Jan. 28 general elections. AP-NY-11-29-02 0839EST Copyright 2002 The Associated Press.

To: Alighieri who wrote (155417)	11/30/2002 9:51:21 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578936

You mean the military used by the Bush adminstration to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan 10 months after he took office was rebuilt from the depths of Clintonian neglect in little more than 9 months? Near miraculous recovery. No. Frankly, I was referring to the military that, ten short years ago, was capable of fighting two major theater wars simultaneously while fighting NUMEROUS smaller, Afghanistan-sized conflicts, AT THE SAME TIME. The liberals are telling us we're now incapable of this kind of military activity. Who to blame, if not the incompetent Clinton administration?