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To: slacker711 who wrote (100517)	6/6/2003 2:28:16 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

For any chance at a lasting peace, we need to have the Palestinians to go through some sort of "civil war" over the direction of the peace process (even if it doesnt turn into a full-scale fight). Much better for that to occur now while the world is watching than in 3 months when every issue has been obscured. That's true. But it's been true for seventy years, literally. The Palestinians have never had this civil war, and have always resorted to their common denominator, maximalism - "just make the Zionists go away". But somebody else (usually another Arab state who wants to fight on to the last Palestinian) always rescues them from reaping the full consequences of their stupidity. Now W seems to be taking on the role (though I sure hope he has another idea in mind). Abbas is in no position to fight such a civil war and has never shown the least desire to do so. In his speeches, he tries to temporize between radicals and moderates, just as Arafat always did. In his deeds, he treats the radicals as equals, which in fairness, they are now, after 10 years of Oslo.