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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (162392)	5/17/2005 5:29:34 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Incidentally, if Israel is so much after a democratic Palestine, how come they did not establish one in decades past? They could have "forced" self autonomy on Pals and deal only with real democratically elected officials...I mean if Bush's ambition to bring democracy to 27 million people in a vast geographic area with conflicting ethnic groups sounds reasonable to you, why didn't Israel try it on Palestinians who are orders of magnitude easier to handle than Iraqis? Israel did make moves in that direction, though I don't think Israeli faith in the Pal capacity for democracy was ever high at all. But the Israeli moves were always foiled by the Arab Leagues anointing of Arafat and the PLO as the only true representatives of the Pal cause, and the PLO's willingness to assassinate any of their Palestinian rivals. In Pal politics, moderates got declared traitors and were shot. Check out how many of the casualties of the first intifada were Pal-on-Pal. Something like half, I believe.