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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (2201)	1/14/2003 7:12:15 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

I checked the Little Green Footballs and found a couple of exemplary objective comments such as "If I had to live in Iran, and couldn’t drink, I’d volunteer to hang myself" and praise for Oriana Fallaci's diatribe against Muslims in general, but I did not see any "party pictures". I think you are referring to the "dancing in the streets" scene after 9/11. They do that when someone gets married, they do it when a village gets an electricity line, and they did it when, out of the blue (pardon the pun) the long-term supporter of their "occupier" got hit for once instead of them. I would hesitate to: 1) Think this is as significant as if would have been if we saw European men and women dancing in the streets 2) Generalize this event to every suicide bombing, concluding that Palestinians dance every time someone is killed The Palestinian images I see on TV on Euronews after suicide bombings are about the bombers' family grieving or saying they are proud of their late son/daughter (with an expression on their faces I hope I will never have). I have not seen anything about no "street parties" after suicide bombings. Yes, they have. Really? Got link? I would be interested to read them. It hasn't happened because the Israelis value Arab lives more than Arab leaders do. Some of them definitely do - the soldiers who refuse to serve in occupied territories.