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To: Sully- who wrote (24408)	1/15/2004 12:29:32 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793706

The lesson of the intifada, and Wheeler’s analysis of Islam, is that those who believe that Israel can improve its hand by taking steps to improve the lives of the Palestinians are mistaken in believing that this is a goal that the leadership of the Palestinian side and the Islamic terror groups share. Lives can improve, but only after Israel is gone. For now, suffering is good. It creates the warrior class such as the young mother who blew herself up today, and murdered 4 Israelis in Gaza. ...and shut down the Erez crossing, depriving 15,000 Palestinians of access to their jobs. To me, this is so obvious as to be trite. Peace and accomodation is always the enemy of the political terrorist. Isn't there a French term? La Politique du Pire? But there are many, many Western liberals who simply cannot believe it. The irony of the Israeli maneuvers on the West Bank, or the Americans in Iraq, is that they must care more about Arab well-being than the Arabs they are fighting do.