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I, too, support a Palestinian state. if only for reasons of stability. According to poll after poll, so do most Israelis. If Arafat was strong enough to control the extremist factions operating within his borders, I would be his biggest fan. The fact is, however, he is powerless. If Egypt or Jordon was to administer the Palestinian state. we might be a little more confident and, even, sleep a little better.

I have already said that if I were Palestinian, I would view this through Palestinian eyes. It is not the anger of the Palestinians that I resent. It is the bleating from the cheap seats of the uninvolved, supposedly objective. It is this nonsensical and historically oblivious cry for Israeli concession when any truly objective observer must see that nothing, but nothing, will appease the fundimentalists except the total desrtuction of the Jewish state. It's not the Arab states that scare us. For the most part, they have finally come around to accepting the reality of Israel (It only took them fifty years). It is not the Arab states that are sending suicide bombers to our seders and our bus stations.

I dont know what to say to the sheep who equate terrorist acts with retaliation. They, obviously, feel that terrorist raids are, on some level, justified. I can only pray that their flocks are never labeled "infidel" so that they never have to discover what their reaction would be. Here, in the USA, we got hit, we got angry, we got back. In spite of your platitudes, the fact remains that terrorists are not placatable. To my many friends in the UK, I suggest that you recall what the British response to the bombing of London was.(Here's a hint, it didn't involve surrender)

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Mike Miller