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To: michael97123 who wrote (95549)	4/22/2003 11:18:24 AM
From: Lou Weed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Mike.....welcome back! Nice to see you're all refreshed and optimistic for the future....good for you. I need a vacation :-) As for the Israeli/Palestinian situation....I guess we could go back and forth all day on who's right and who's wrong.....we'll both be right and we'll both be wrong. Bottom line is Arab AND Jewish children ARE dying. The point I was making to CB was that there are two sides of the coin to consider in every conflict like this. It's her perception of who's wrong and who's right on the ISSUE that makes her think that the feelings of one side towards the opposition's dead children are different. There are moderates and extremists on BOTH sides.....some people here tend to forget that. Again I relate everything back to my own experience in Northern Ireland which I feel is very apt when we're talking about the Israeli/Palestinian issue. Whether the child is Protestant or Catholic makes no difference to the grief that the parents feel....same visa vi Arab/Jewish. By far the majority of Catholics feel the grief of EVERY child that's killed just as the majority of Protestants feel the same also. There are of course the fringe elements on both sides who don't give a toss about whoever it is. We should be very careful not to identify the majority with these fringe elements. After all if you look at the number of people killed in both conflicts as a percentage of the whole, it's very small and that's what should give us hope for the future. Sometimes we can lose sight of that. I guess it's one of those "you have to be there to understand" scenarios. There's a lot of very knowledgeable people posting here but I'm betting that by far the majority have never "experienced" what it's like to walk through cities in the midst of such conflicts or experience the everyday life decisions that it entails. Believe me it's VERY different from what you see on TV! MON.