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To: KLP who wrote (127071)	3/23/2004 1:08:44 AM
From: Geof Hollingsworth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

To qoute the famous Martin Lipton in today's Mail, "To suggest that the targeted assassination of Yassin - and the incidental killing of those who happened to be accompanying him as he went home from a mosque - will help the cause of peace and that his death marks "a great day for Israel" reveals, I suggest, how poorly the people of Israel are served by their own government and its American backers." I would not have thought it possible, but the events of the day have even further isolated the US from the rest of the world, including America's previously-staunchest allies. Tony Blair has condemned the action, Japan has recalled their ambassador. Is there any major nation (other than the US) who finds it acceptable? I believe that the majority of both Israel and don't-call-it-Palestine-yet are desperate to live in peace, and would gladly and overwhelmingly embrace any of the myriad plans for achieving it that have been circulated over the last decade. It is the leaders on both sides who bear the responsibility for frustrating the will of the people they should be leading instead of catering to the extremist wings in each country.