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TO:    David Bedein, Israel Resource, Bet Agron Press Center
       37 Hillel St., Jerusalem 94581
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       E-Mail:  media@actcom.co.il
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
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REF:   IHT 9 Oct 96 (Edward Cody, Washington Post Service)
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Reasonable article.

"the 450 Jewish fundamentalists who have taken up residence inseveral buildings in  the center of Hebron amid about 80,000Palestinians."

"That Palestinian police be barred from carrying their standardissue AK-47 assault rifles in some Palestinian-controlled areas"
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COMMENT:  Standard issue for what sort of force, under whatsort of government, in what sort of area?
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TO:    David Bedein, Israel Resource, Bet Agron Press Center
       37 Hillel St., Jerusalem 94581
       Tel:  02--236-368;  FAX:  02--6255-119 Att: DB
       E-Mail:  media@actcom.co.il
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-6656-572; FAX:  972-6-6656-554
DATE:  
RE:    
REF:   IHT 09 Oct 96 Op/Ed, Stephen Rosenfield, Washington Post
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SUMMARY:  A well-written if conceptually vacuous argument forJewish-Arab co-existence in Georgetown, which the writer, (who had he lived in Second Temple times, might have been found in thebetter gymnasia), does not seem to have clearly distinguished fromIsrael.
                                                            
"Netanyahu was...typically arrogant"
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COMMENT:  Wing-footed Achilles, Typically Arrogant Netanyahu
Peres is not arrogant, he is Visionary.
Can't have more than one epithet nor attribute per person.
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"accumulated Palestinian political frustrations"
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COMMENT:  Personalization  of a political battle.
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"and Muslim religious sensibilities"
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COMMENT:  Viz:  It makes them feel bad to have to notice thatJews exist.
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"some Palestinian police shot at Israeli soldiers"
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COMMENT:  Killed 13, to be precise
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"Netanyahu...went out of his way to stick a finger in thePalestinian eye...by the manner of his treatment of [ChairpersonPoopoohead] personally"
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COMMENT:  Even psychopathic serial killers got feelings.
Political Correctness with a vengeance.
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"Mr.  Netanyahu  got on a high horse and said that negotiation,not  violence, was the only way the Palestinians  could achievetheir goals.  He ignored the contribution that his own hard-nosedstyle of negotiation had made to political erosion."
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COMMENT:  Non-sequiteur with two category-mistakes:  
Defines violence so broadly and justice so loosely that ifyou sneeze at me, I am justified in shooting at you.
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"Bill Clinton...should criticize ...  efforts to maintain thestatus quo by armed force as well"
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COMMENT:  Ie NATO?
Oh Heiferpistles; this is classical advanced sophistry 
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"The fact is that the Likud program and what seems to be the mainbody of its constituency largely repudiate [medium-sizedlyrepudiate?] the whole idea of peace as defined by key UnitedNations resolutions, by American  policy as  approved  bysucessive Presidents..."

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COMMENT:  And by Miss American Pie.
This was not maybe the script for a Doonesbury strip?
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"It is not yet clear that Mr. Netanyahu is devoted to peace in anyfamiliar sense of the word"
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COMMENT:  Eg, `life and liberty'?
Heck, Fred, save it for High Tea.  
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"The argument is made, often implicitly, that past Jewish tragedy
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Tragedy?  Like the fall of Prometheus?  Or just plaingenocide?  
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makes independence, security and national dignity more morallyurgent for Israelis than  for  Palestinians."
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COMMENT:  This is more  interesting.
It's an  existential argument for Jews, not an ethicalargument for all peoples.  All members of a people who havenearly suffered genocide have a categorial existentialobligation to do what they can  to assure the survival oftheir own people.  (Taking 'independence and security'  as asingle concept, and  setting aside 'national dignity',whatever that handsome but fuzzy notion may be taken tomean.)
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"The Clinton Administration, as best as I can see"
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COMMENT:  Hey paisono, you from Brooklyn?
