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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (118190)	10/31/2003 2:58:11 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The overall pattern of "tactics" is what is at issue. Israel appears committed to "tactics" that center around a military solution to what many see as a political problem. These "tactics" have escalated to a point where a broadening consensus is saying "we do not support Israeli policy". I count myself among those people. Israeli "tactics" perpetuate and escalate the very violence they are purported to curtail.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (118190)	10/31/2003 5:50:02 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Nadine Carroll; Re: "For example, the chorus of voices saying that the bombing Belgrade in the Kosovo war as counterproductive was very loud and long - until Milosevic caved. If he hadn't caved, the chorus would have been triumphant." It depends on what "productive" and "counterproductive" mean. I think the bombing was counterproductive because there were better ways to get to the same diplomatic result. The fact that it is possible to kill a fly with a sledge hammer doesn't prove that that is a productive way to kill flies. But it is clear, at least to Ya'alon and many others, that Sharon's tactics with the Palestinians have been counterproductive. Hey if it were possible to eliminate Israel's problem by getting one Palestinian to "cave", then maybe these kinds of tactics would work. The problem is that the problem is not with one man, but instead is with an entire people, and not just the few million Palestinians, but with the (approx) one hundred million Arabs. -- Carl