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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (118588)	11/5/2003 1:56:56 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The Israelis would have been responsive to a Gandhi-type campaign. There never was one. I know the history of the Israeli group Peace Now. Where was its counterpart, the Palestinian Peace Now? Under Oslo, the Israelis revised their textbooks to speak of the rights of two peoples to the land. The Palestinians revised their textbooks to claim all of Palestine as their historic homeland, and to claim that the Jews were thieves and recent usurpers who had no connection to Palestine. Sometimes the side that is the stronger is not therefore in the wrong. Had Martin Luther King led a campaign of suicide bombers in Birmingham, the South would still be segregated. Your continual insistence and magnification of every Israeli fault, while overlooking, apologizing for, and excusing the Palestinian responsibility for the current situation, amounts to anti-Semitism. The syllogism is old: A: Jews cheat. B: Non-Jews cheat too. A: But I was talking about the Jews. Or sometimes you say, "well the Palestinians should have taken the deal at Taba but it's still all the Israelis' fault, they're committing apartheid". Well if the Israelis have tried to extricate themselves and do the the right thing and the Palestinians threw it in their faces and started a war, it's not all the Israelis' fault, now is it?