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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (97821)	5/10/2003 5:18:10 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Could you please enlighten us as to what weapons would be commensurate with fighting a terrorist paramilitary organization that uses civilians as human shields for its weapons factories and fighters? Could you please enlighten us as to what weapons may be used by a populace that does not have helos, Fxx, tanks, missiles, nukes etc ? IMO the only weapon they have is their body laced with crude explosives. I am not condoning violence on either side. A peace can be achieved only if both sides reach common ground. Gut feel - wont happen in my life time. I would be pleasently surprised if it did.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (97821)	5/10/2003 9:39:30 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Could you please enlighten us as to what weapons would be commensurate with fighting a terrorist paramilitary organization that uses civilians as human shields for its weapons factories and fighters? Would just sitting on the defensive and getting blown up whenever one of the terrorists slipped through, would that be commensurate? but as I remember, you don't like checkpoints either. Last time I checked, Nadine, life, at least for me, did not divide itself neatly into binary choices. Do everything or do nothing. I find there are a great many shades of doing something that are well short of bombing civilian areas, destroying the Palestinian economy, and killing only god knows how many civilians who had nothing to do with the intifada. And thus building deep, deep, deep, pools of anger, deeper than before. I repeat my belief that the extremes of both sides have taken over. The new Pal prime minister represents an ever so slight glimmer of hope. If the extremes were not in power in Israel, someone might try to help that light do more than flicker. Looks to me as if Sharon's people are trying to blow it out.