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I like Paul Foot a great deal, although I suspect I am one of the people who does the whole "plague on both your houses" thing. What I struggle with is why you are not allowed to criticise Israel's actions without (quite often) being labelled an anti-semite. If I criticise the Israeli government's decisions, it is not a criticism of every Jewish person in the world..... Having said that, I'm not sure it is a simple as Paul Foot would have as believe - if Israel withdrew, would all the terrorist attacks stop? Or would there still be a hardcore minority of fanatics pursuing their own route to martyrdom? As we've seen in Northern Ireland, even a peace process which has met many demands on both sides has not halted the violence. Will the Real IRA ever stop attacking protestants, even in a (far-off) united Ireland? And vice versa for the Loyalist paramilitaries......I know it's a different political situation, but I sometimes feel that terrorists sometimes have terrorism as their raison d'etre, and that this can replace their original aims and demands as time goes on. I don't know if that made any sense at all. I'm totalyy befuddled about what to think about it all.....a plague on both their houses, then.... Nick Temple _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com