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To: skinowski who wrote (20619)	12/20/2003 1:33:49 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793607

Until there is a proper combination of in- and disincentives - religious, political, etc. - to change this thinking, the so called Israeli-Palestinian conflict has no chance of ever getting resolved. Individual players, like Sharon, Arafat, etc. are important, but I think that what they could do is very limited anyway I don't know about that. According to polls, the Pals are pretty tired and most of them would agree to a deal. It would take a strong leader to put down the extremists, esp. now that Arafat has encouraged so many of them, but funding and support would be available to such a leader; it's not as if only Riyadh and Damascus were offering funds. In an authoritarian culture (I keep remembering the Pal commentator who said "We're like the Bedouins. We follow our sheikhs"), the attitude of the Big Boss can make a big difference.