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To: maceng2 who wrote (123001)	1/10/2004 9:57:53 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

No new comments, PB. Israel allows these protests because, unlike its enemies, it is a democracy (People openly expressing opposition to the party line don't live long in the PA. They are declared collaborators and shot summarily). There are these Israeli refuseniks. However, they are few (tho natch, the leftist Ha'aretz plays them up), and widely disapproved of by Israelis, even leftist Israelis, who generally feel that military insubordination should not be used as a political tool. Most Israelis, unlike the letter writer, remember that those poor Palestinians have a leadership committed to breaking Israeli will through the use of suicide terrorism. There are a limited number of ways to deal with this, and none of them are clean or pure, unless you advocate sitting with folded hands and waiting to die. But I don't happen to think that's a moral course either. Israel is choosing between evils, and I cannot see that Israeli policies have been particularly brutal. It's just that Israel has so many judges, all shouting "Marquis of Queensbury Rules, do you hear? Marquis of Queensbury rules!", while saying to the oppenent, "Did you just bring a grenade into the ring? Poor dear, you must be desperate."