At 03:08 PM 9/17/01 +0200 Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM wrote:
>A few days ago 4,000 Palestinians were considered representative of the
>entire Palestinian people. Now, you apparently consider the actions of 1,500
>people to be representative of the entire Palestinian population. I do not
>know exactly how many Palestinians live there, but even 5,500 people still
>make up a very small percentage of the population.
I'm sorry Jeroen, but I don't think that Gallup and Zogby operate in the
West Bank.
(Gallup and Zogby are two prominent American polling firms.)
You take what eveidence is presented. Moreover, based on the reactions of
the West Bank and Gaza to the Scud Missiles that rained down on Tel Aviv
and Haifa in the early 90's, it makes it easy to make some educated guesses.
>I do not know what footage you have seen, but I have seen footage of
>Palestinians condemning the attack. I have seen footage of Palestinian
>students standing outside a school, having a moment of silence for the
>victims of the bombings.
That's true, but all of this was done at the explicit request of the
Palestinian Authority - a governing entity that surely recognizes the
posibly disastrous consequences for their goals if they are perceived as
being on the wrong side of the United States in this conflict.
I think the fact that the Palestinian Authority feels the need to crack
down so harshly on any possible evidence of anti-American sentiment right
now, strongly suggests the air of a cover-up in progress.
Indeed.......
>Has it occured to you that what the Palestinian police did, they did in
>order to protect the Palestinians from revenge? Pictures of a Palestinian
>crowd carrying a picture of Osama bin Laden might very well lead to
>repercussions from Israel.
That is *exactly* what occurred to me. And I see that it occurred to you
too.
JDG
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