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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (115213)	9/18/2003 11:58:36 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

You make a good point that there are desperate people in other places. Suicide bombing is political. And as has been posted by others, it can be understood in a social and political context -- and it does not exist everywhere there is despair. But none of this addresses the state of mind of the 20 year old Palestinian woman who reaches under her blouse and detonates herself on a bus. None of this touches the reality of living as a Palestinian under Israeli occupation. None of this touches the personal tragedy that envelopes this form of death and random killing. For that woman, the political act reflects a sense of "no future" other than a life not worth living. Until that woman is persuaded by someone, somehow, that there is a just and meaningful future for her and for her family, there will never be peace.