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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (115442)	9/22/2003 8:25:23 AM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You insist on trying to correlate hopelessness to something outside of the suicide bombers' mentality. I'm simply saying that hopelessness is a part of the problem. I'm not willing to dehumanize Islam as you seem to want to do. Mostly because this dehumanization of Moslems is a way of avoiding coming to grips with the problems in the area. One of the problems is the insistence that Barak's offer was so wonderful and that Arafat was a fool for rejecting it. But as the source I posted recently shows the offer was not wonderful and Arafat was correct in rejecting it. That same source has a reference to Tabas and here one can see a modified map that was accepted as a basis for negotiations well knowing that Barak was of no consequence to the peace process anymore at the time. Trying to understand the state of mind of people in a hopeless situation would go a long way to trying to find solutions to the problems in Palestine and Israel.