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To: LindyBill who wrote (60525)	8/15/2004 1:58:00 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793838

But the army had bought into Oslo, and some generals later concluded that they had failed in their most basic mission, protecting Israel. It is a mistake they will not make again. ''I was one of those stupid guys,'' Brig. Gen. Eival Gilady said with a wry grin over dinner in May in Tel Aviv. Gilady, until recently the head of the Israel Defense Forces' strategic planning division, now advises the government on security and international matters. There you have the difference between him and James Bennet. Bennet is one of the chief transmitters of the Oslo illusion, the 'Arafat is a moderate' illusion, the 'no, Arafat doesn't pay for al Aqsa suicide bombers' (to this day, the NYT has NEVER printed that Arafat pays al Aqsa salaries) illusion. But Bennet still embraces his own stupidity. You can see how he tries to find Israeli leftists (now a small minority, for obvious reasons) to provide 'balance' to his main interview. Aside from that wedging of a round interview into a square framework, it was not a bad writeup.