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To: laura_bush who wrote (114605)	9/12/2003 3:46:10 PM
From: Sig	Respond to of 281500

<<<The Jerusalem Post took a strong editorial stand today, calling on Israel to kill Yasser Arafat>> Take the easy way, offer $30mm to anybody, then let him try to keep his own terrorists from collecting the reward. . Sig

To: laura_bush who wrote (114605)	9/12/2003 4:28:33 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Jerusalem Post Says: "Kill Arafat" So: Arafat must be killed because Arafat is a problem. Why is he a problem? Why is he evil? Why is this drastic solution acceptable? Because Arafat has a nasty habit of killing people to solve problems.... Substitute Arafat for Sharon, or anyone else you've demonized, and the logic is just as good. I wonder what the response in America would have been, if, during the Cold War, Pravda had editorialized on the utility of assassinating John "amphetamine" Kennedy, or Ronald "Evil Empire" Reagan. Or if Libyan newspapers had published a list of reasons for killing the children of America's Presidents (after our attempt to assassinate Khadafi missed, but killed his baby daughter). <....minimizing collateral damage, but not letting that damage stop us... ...the world leaves us no alternative...> It's so important to them, to all of us, to think of ourselves as civilized. Good, moral, or at least better by contrast. And so, we make self-deception, shifting blame, into a habit. For instance, the only other response to your post, is the suggestion that we keep our hands clean the way Pontius Pilate did, by arranging to have others do the deed.