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To: LindyBill who wrote (22230)	12/31/2003 2:01:54 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793991

Kennedy, however, was the first US president who realized that the Palestinians were a major element if not the root cause of the Arab–Israeli conflict. Yet he never thought about them as people with national aspirations. He spoke, as Israeli leaders did, about dealing with the "refugee" problem. It was not to be the first or the last time that an American president underestimated the depth of the Palestinians' resentment over their displacement as well as Israel's determination to hold on to the territory it had seized What were the Palestinian's national aspirations in 1960? The PLO wasn't founded until 1964. There wasn't a peep of a nationalistic movement under Jordanian or Egyptian occupation. Personal resentments do not a national movement make. Sure, the Pals wanted the Jews dead and gone - just like all the other Arabs. But what evidence is there that they would have seriously objected to having Palestine split between Egypt, Jordan and Syria, as it would have been had the Israelis lost in 1948? All the evidence suggests that the Arabs care about Palestinian nationalism just like they care about Jerusalem - when the Jews hold the territory, they care passionately. When Arabs hold the territory, they couldn't care less. There have been such massive attempts to rewrite history that one should be very careful to go back to the sources and view even so recent a period in its own terms, not today's.