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To: Dayuhan who wrote (94404)	4/17/2003 11:40:39 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The idea that a historian should not attempt to be evenhanded reflects a bias so deep that it rejects any attempt even to set bias aside for a moment. There's a BIG difference between declaring that two objects should always be weighed fairly, and that two objects should always weigh the same (whether they do or not). Don't you think you're confusing the two? Certainly Morris cannot be accused of evenhandedness; he wears his bias proudly. Ironic. Morris has just about recanted his career as a New Historian, during which he was bitterly accused by other historians of falsifying evidence to make Zionism look bad. This is an environment in which demagogues thrive, and if you create and sustain such an environment, demagogues will rise and flourish. Absolutely. But ask yourself, who has created this environment? who has sustained it? Israel is certainly complicit. But Israel did not create or sustain this environment. It was created by the Palestinians themselves, and by Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and maintained by UNWRA. These countries have all made sure that Palestnians will remain refugees to the nth generation. Did you see Barry Rubin's article, where he said that the Iraqi Jews were let out by a British-brokered deal, in which the Arab refugees from Palestine were to be resettled in Iraq? Thus the Arab countries all demand a solution for a problem that they themselves have rendered intractable. Now President Bush is attending to the problem - as Alexander did to the Gordian knot.