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To: zonder who wrote (3536)	2/7/2003 2:48:32 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15987

Come on, Nadine. At some level you must know that if that were true, the western press would be all over this story. Bullshit they would be all over the story. Haven't you noticed that the western press favors the underdog, and the Palestinians have been christened the underdog. Plucky stone-throwers against Israeli tanks, that sort of thing? Which will sell papers better, the plucky stone-thrower paying with his life against the well-armed IDF, or an ambush of the IDF by mixed stone-throwers and gunmen, who draw return fire? To ask the question is to answer it. Besides, who does most of the reporting from the Gaza strip and the West Bank? Palestinian stringers working for Reuters. They make no pretence of objectivity. Both from Israeli sources. Plus two more from Arab sources, one of which was Palestinian, which spoke very clearly about sending boys into harm's way in battle.

To: zonder who wrote (3536)	2/7/2003 4:10:23 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

The material I gave you had sources, including stories from the Western press linked on the Web. The problem is that most of the links are by this time defunct, as stories have been archived, and I cannot link you to stories from the archives, nor do I want to spend much money researching in the archives. Generally, only advocacy sites hold relevant material indefinitely. I will say, though, that you must have seen stories in the Western press about young persons encouraged to become "martyrs" (human bombs), and therefore I do not understand the depth of your skepticism. It is a small leap from adults that encourage politically motivated suicide, or encourage their children to participate in riots that put them at risk, to the other things alleged........