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To: Lane3 who wrote (67525)	9/6/2004 5:35:16 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

To get the other foot out of the box you have to flip the scenario and imagine yourself an American terrorist or a Christian terrorist fighting off some enemy that has left you "similarly aggrieved." Very good point. I thought of it myself after I hit the "submit" button. And the answer is, your hypothetical and your analogy are not representative of the facts. The Palestinians have a lot more to blame for their problems than whatever the Israelis have done. To make it accurate, you would have to add that Farrakhan was somehow elected president, stole 90% of the American government's budget, and has adamantly refused to make peace with anyone. Given those conditions, terrorism would not be a rational alternative. I'd first assassinate Farrakhan, then make peace on the best terms possible. However, using your hypothet, which I believe is flawed, I would nonetheless think the first thing to do would be to replace American leadership, then sue for peace. Under the circumstances you present, terrorism would not work. There would have to be a better way. But don't get me wrong, there are definitely some conceivable circumstances I can see in which I might approve of what we call terror.

To: Lane3 who wrote (67525)	9/6/2004 6:21:09 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

Imagine that your home and olive business were lost to people you already hated who ran you off to a refugee camp outside Oklahoma City and where your previous moral society had been replaced by a ghetto culture over the couple of decades that you've been living like an animal. I don't have to imagine very hard, karen, just look at the history of the Jews of Europe in the 20th century (heck, ask me my own family history sometime). But the Jews seem resistant ot the "ghetto culture" you describe; even the residents of the DP camps wanted to get out & build a life, a country, and their fellow Jews wanted to help them. The Palestinian national cause, on the other hand, is not about building Palestine but about destroying Israel. Every time they are given a chance to give up the second in order to get the first, they refuse. Maybe this "ghetto culture" you imagine is not a universal human feature, but a product of particular ideological frameworks.