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To: LindyBill who wrote (98527)	5/19/2003 11:48:36 AM
From: thames_sider	Respond to of 281500

Agreed, FL has indicated disdain for this tack... hence my edit, also. Ahem. Meanwhile, how to reach peace in the ME, not. Another suicide bombing, five reported dead. Evidently confining the Pal. leadership to base and sending the tanks in is working just as well as ever. story.news.yahoo.com JERUSALEM - A suicide bomber attacked a northern Israel shopping center Monday, killing at least four other people and wounding 15, police said. It was the fifth anti-Israeli suicide bombing in three days. The blast went off at 5:14 p.m. at the Shaarei Amakim mall in the northern town of Afula near one of the mall entrances, where shoppers were waiting in line for a security check. The attacker, who the area police chief said may have been a woman, apparently detonated the explosive after encountering a security guard. Rescue workers in the town, which lies close to the border with the West Bank, said four people and the bomber were killed and at least 15 people were wounded, some seriously. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. The Islamic militant Hamas has carried out for four bombings over the weekend, including a Jerusalem bus attack that killed seven Israelis. Hamas spokesman Abdel Aziz Rantisi said that the bombing showed that "our fighters are capable of reaching them (Israelis) in every corner of our occupied land. ... As long as the occupation remains on our land and as long as the occupation soldiers are breathing David Baker, a spokesman in the Israeli prime minister's office, said that the attack "is another bloody chapter in the Palestinian history of carnage and terror." Hamas has carried out most of the 94 suicide bombings that have killed more than 300 Israelis in the past 32 months of fighting. The spate of attacks by the Islamic militant group underscored how difficult it will be to carry out the U.S.-backed "road map" plan, a three-stage prescription for ending violence immediately and setting up a Palestinian state by 2005. In the wake of the bombings, Israel moved to further isolate Arafat, threatening to boycott foreign envoys who meet with the Palestinian leader. Hamas said Monday it has no intention of halting attacks, despite Egypt's efforts to have Palestinian militant groups agree to a one-year suspension of shootings and bombings. What concessions can the Palestinian leadership make that will outweigh the Israeli reprisals?

To: LindyBill who wrote (98527)	5/19/2003 11:53:58 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Universities the world over are Bastions of the left. Yeah, yeah. As an alumnus of the Chicago School, I will have to bite my virtual tongue to avoid telling you exactly what you are full of and getting banned from this august and civil "community of posters" yet again. It's a conspiracy. Though I guess if all right wing true believers like you hold with that line, it can't possibly be a conspiracy; by definition, it's got to be the TRUTH. There's something beyond irony about people who insist on injecting conservative politics into every possible area of thought perpetually whining about how it's the other side that politicizes everything. Of course, "beyond irony" is pretty much par for the course for the conservative dogma that dominates around here.