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To: skinowski who wrote (99035)	5/24/2003 5:45:02 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

Skinowski, I'm not certain just what this note was about but I gather you liked the Hanson article and disliked the Khalidi one. And you expect that our views are different on these points. And you are right. I quit reading Hanson some time back. I had not read Hanson until someone posted him on this thread. So I read a few and was appalled: militaristic thinking about foreign policy, filled with the current fad of binary thought, replete with a fulsome bit of we-them oppositonal points, and gross overgeneralization. So you have me tagged right on the Hanson front. As for Khalidi, this is the first piece I've read of his. I like the fact that he tries to see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from both sides, not simply from the Israeli as almost all American media now does. And, unfortunately, as the regular posters here know, I agree with the end of the essay which is that this conflict is in the hands of extremists on both sides with the present US administration taking the side of the Israeli extremists, so it has nowhere to go but down into more violence.