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A Palestinian 'Peace'

By Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post Columnist, May 19, 2000
< http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-05/19/051l-051900-idx.html>

"The riots of May 15, 2000, were not a protest against living under Israeli occupation (which is over). The riots were a protest against the birth--the very existence--of the state of Israel, something the Palestinians had supposedly accepted seven years ago with the Oslo peace accords."
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Barak's Stockholm syndrome

By David Weinberg, Jerusalem Post Columnist, May 21, 2000
< http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/05/21/Opinion/Opinion.6968.html>

"The more the Palestinians hate us, the more they raise their demands, and the more they employ violence in their struggle against us - the more we shower concessions on them."

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Wanted: A Jewish Churchill

By Jonathan Rosenblum, Jerusalem Post Columnist, May 18, 2000
< http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/05/18/Columns/Columns.6859.html>

"We refuse to confront the existence of enemies who still think in terms of victory, not reconciliation."
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Lack of Proper Retaliation

By Yosef Goell, Jerusalem Post Columnist, May 22, 2000
< http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/05/22/Opinion/Opinion.7019.html>

"The consistent failure to mete out terrible punishment for such heinous deeds is largely what is behind the lack of confidence of a large part of the public in our leaders' determination to protect our very lives."
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Hankering for Correlation

By Doron Rosenblum, Ha'aretz Columnist, May 21, 2000
< http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/scripts/article.asp?mador=4&datee=05/21/00&id=78664>

"After all, we ourselves are very proficient in explaining why on every front - in Lebanon, Syria and Egypt as well as the Palestinian - there is almost always "no connection" ... between our willingness to make concessions and to withdraw and the escalation of violence which flies in the face of these moves."

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Violence Spotlights PA Violations

By Ze'ev Schiff, Ha'aretz Military Editor, May 22, 2000
< http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/scripts/article.asp?mador=14&datee=05/22/00&id=78731>

"The disturbances in the territories have revealed a number of serious Palestinian violations of security agreements they have signed."

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The Real Terrorist Threat

By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe Columnist, May 18, 2000
<http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jacoby051800.asp>

"But there is good reason for the focus on Arab and Muslim terrorists: They pose by far the greatest danger to American life and limb."

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