On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Brad DeLong wrote:
> It makes me cry. *All* Arafat had to do after Oslo was to announce
> that he was going to follow the Gandhi road, stage a bunch of media
> events showing Palestinian brigades throwing their weapons into the
> Jordan. Then he could have started the sit-ins and invited in the TV
> cameras, and watched the Israeli hawks lose votes in the Knesset
I'm flabbergasted, Brad. Do you know any Israelis? Suggest to any of them, anywhere on the political spectrum, that mass non-violent resistance would have ever worked even to a minimal extent and they will look at you like you are talking about your past lives.
Michael
__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com