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To: carranza2 who wrote (236916)	7/18/2007 12:03:22 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Arafat was no Ghandi, despite what the Nobel committee might have thought. On the other hand, the Israeli concession were well shy of enormous. My point is that reasonable Pal behavior would get good Israeli concessions, and brilliant Pal behavior and strategy would in fact obtain enormous Israeli concessions, even if those concessions came grudgingly, especially from certain quarters of the Jewish population. That is the asymmetry. Good Jewish behavior is not going to get good Pal behavior, because the Pals have too few of their population who would respond in that way. Despite the fact that I never forget that Israel is in fact guilty of being a "land thief" I also don't fail to realise that the Arabs, if they would only chose to think a little more clearly, should realise that all the real estate in Palestine is much more valuable BECAUSE all those Jews are there. It could be a positive sum game for the region, not a negative sum game.