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To: E. T. who wrote (16304)	3/6/2003 12:01:41 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 25898

are you saying that sharon's widely announced vist to the muslim holy site was a justification for giving up negotiations to pursue terror. Here is what I actually said: "The next day, Israeli troops fired into a crowd of unarmed Palestinian demonstrators, killing several people." Then, I added: " Now, that by itself did not provoke the suicide bombers. This was followed by a one month orgy of Israeli violence, including settler mobs rampaging through Palestinian villages. Then, the first suicide bombers struck." Thus, I ask you, why do you not condemn Israel for turning to terror after negotiations failed? Tom

To: E. T. who wrote (16304)	3/6/2003 12:04:58 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 25898

This happened before the first suicide bombing: <<< According to an Israeli journalist, a check by Israeli army intelligence three weeks into the intifada revealed that "the IDF had shot, in the first few days of the Intifada, about 700,000 different shells and bullets in the West Bank and 300,000 more in Gaza. All together about a million shells and bullets. Someone in the Central Region Command later termed the project 'a bullet for every child.' An astronomic number that provides evidence as to what happened on the ground . The IDF had been preparing for this Intifada for years, and when it broke out, it unloaded its prolonged frustration on the Palestinians . In the [Israeli] political as well as military systems there is a view that it was perhaps the IDF destructive reaction and the blow the Palestinians took in the first weeks that made the situation deteriorate and escalated it . In the beginning of October, the balance was 75 Palestinians dead with only four Israeli victims." ["The Intifada's Second Anniversary," by Ben Kaspit, Maariv, September 6, 2002] During the first month of the intifada, through the end of October 2000, 117 Palestinian civilians were killed, including 32 kids under the age of 18 (18 under the age of 16). The killing of these 117 Palestinians was not inadvertent, and it was not a response to Palestinian terrorism. Except for the horrible lynching of two Israeli soldiers (whose perpetrators were arrested and were not among the Palestinians killed during this first month), there was no Palestinian terrorism in this period ... >>> Message 18146406