But Bill, what do you make of the great increase in Israeli-inflicted deaths of Palestinians? Is this also part of the Israeli 'success'? Perhaps some of the commentators you refer to view such deaths as, in fact, an indicator of the failure of the Israeli occupation.
Cheers, Lawry > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:owner-futurework@;scribe.uwaterloo.ca]On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 8:12 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re:FW: Negotiating to Succeed or Sabotage? > > > Karen, > > What was interesting about Jonathan Chait was that it is similar > to havin Tom Hayden offer advice to Richard Perle. Here are a > couple of paragraphs by Chait: > > VOICE: Jonathan Chait, The New Republic > > It's Working (Complete Text) > > There is a virtual consensus in the American media that Israel's > military operation in the West Bank will invariably fail. "Even > as Israeli officials flooded the airwaves Friday to cast the > military operation in Ramallah as a defense against future > terrorist attacks," reports Time, "a 16-year-old Palestinian girl > blew herself up outside a Jerusalem supermarket, killing two > Israelis." An editorial in today's Washington Post condemns > "Ariel Sharon's futile attempt to end terrorist attacks with a > military invasion and confinement of Yasser Arafat." > > A funny thing, though--everybody was so busy talking about the > futility of the Israeli operation that nobody has noticed its > one, unambiguous success: a sharp decline in the suicide > bombings. There hasn't been a suicide bombing since Monday, and > that one injured one person and killed nobody. This suggests that > the assumption underlying all the coverage of the West Bank--that > Sharon's operation is bound to fail--may be entirely wrong. > Indeed, if the Israeli campaign can substantially reduce suicide > bombings, the entire moral calculus underlying it changes. > > ---------- "Karen Watters Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, Why Liberals Should Support the War by Jonathan Chait @ > http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021021&s=chait102102 > > Bill Ward > > > Bill Ward > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 813-295-4957 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. >
