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<span style="background-color: #f1c232;">THE newly opened Four Points at Sheraton Sandakan is an oasis of comfort, with nearly all of its 300 rooms overlooking the Sulu Sea from its Harbour Centre location.</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: #f1c232;">Only 20 minutes’ drive from the airport, the hotel is an ideal location for solo and family tourism — a doorstep to Sandakan’s natural beauty and heritage trail — as well as delegates attending meetings and conventions on its premises.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f1c232;">With its modern and well-equipped style, its rooms are an ideal retreat after a day exploring Sandakan’s rainforests and wildlife, or collecting business cards at an industry meeting. Its rooms come with all the key essentials to ensure your comfort. There is free Wi-Fi throughout the hotel and cable Internet in your room, to stay in touch with the office and loved ones. Also an ironing board and iron, essential for when you only have 20 minutes to shower, iron and change before your next impromptu meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f1c232;">The very comfortable large bed and pillows are guaranteed to quickly lull you into a deep sleep. And if you’re jet-lagged or just looking for a tasty midnight feast, the 24-hour room service is a blessing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f1c232;">On the food front you have The Eatery for all-day international dining, with freshly squeezed juice at breakfast time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f1c232;">Meanwhile, at ground level is Wrapped, the in-house deli with snacks, tea and coffee for a pick-me-up.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f1c232;">Begin your evening with a cocktail watching the sunset in the Lobby Lounge. And continue in the Best Brew bar with a barbecue of assorted meat and seafood, European beers, rounding off your long day with live music and dancing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f1c232;">Or close the deal with a luxury smoke in the cigar room and a tumbler or two of single malt, as you sink into its plush armchairs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f1c232;">But the next morning is a new day. So start with a dozen laps in the infinity swimming pool that spills over into the Sulu Sea. If you’re still trying for that six-pack, the gym has the latest weights and cardio-vascular machines to help get you buff.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f1c232;">Asia’s hospitality business is full of good food, accommodation and service. But excellent hospitality is only attainable with the right people and a consistent high-quality service. I hope that Sandakan’s latest hotel continues to set the standard, right on nature’s doorstep, overlooking the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f1c232;">For details of guest rooms, convention and meeting facilities and hotel features, call 089-244 888 or visit<br />www.starwoodhotels.com/fourpoints. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: blue;"><span class="notranslate">I<i>nformation system strategy</i></span><i> — Presentation Transcript</i></span></h2>
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<li style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: blue;">1. Information Systems Strategy</span></i></li>
<li style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: blue;">2. Learning Objectives To understand The need for an IS strategy Types of strategies that exist within an organisation, and how they interact with each other. In particular: Business strategy. Information systems strategy. Information technology strategy the process of strategic planning for information systems</span></i></li>
<li style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: blue;">3. Need for an information system strategy Due to the multitude of technological developments over the past two decades many areas within an organisation can now take advantage of cheap user-friendly processing power. Information needs of users have increased and can be met in many different ways. To prevent the proliferation of unique independent information systems developing within an organisation, an overall information system strategy needs to be considered.</span></i></li>
<li style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: blue;">4. IS needs an effective strategic plan Because IS consumes a portion of the organisation’s finite resources IS must accommodated rapid technological changes IS must enable the business to function effectively Therefore, IS strategy will ensure that IS will cost effectively deliver strategic systems.</span></i></li>
<li style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: blue;">5. Aims of the IS strategic plan Clearly identify where IS is going within the organisation therefore avoiding the dangers of taking actions that do not contribute to the overall mission Provide a formalised set of benchmarks so that progress of the plan can be monitored.</span></i></li>
<li style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: blue;">6. The information system strategy The information system strategy is derived from the business strategy which itself is evolved from the strategies of all the sub-systems. Once an information strategy has been decided upon EG. providing a better service or information to the customers about an organisations products, then a tactical plan for setting up the system can be devised. This will include, where it will be located, what hardware and software will be used, what training is required. Although it is necessary to consider the information sub-system as an integral part of the overall business system, it is also important to consider it in its own right. That is, the information sub-system must be concerned with new techniques and technologies which could benefit the organisation. All business strategies must be responsive to the external environment</span></i></li>
<li style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: blue;">7. Strategies within an organisation Business Strategy IS Strategy Information Management Strategy Information Technology Strategy Information Strategy Change Management Strategy IS Related Human Resource Strategy Business Strategy</span></i></li>
<li style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: blue;">8. Elements of a strategic plan A clear statement of IS objectives – where they want the business to be An inventory and assessment of both the current organisational capabilities and problems resulting from current practises – where the business is now An implementation plan identifying long-term and short-term actions and allocation of resources – how to get to where they want to be</span></i></li>
<li style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: blue;">9. Elements of IS strategy (Ward &Griffiths, 96) Business information strategy . This defines how information and knowledge will be used to support the business objectives IS functionality strategy . Defines the requirements of the business from the systems. Defines how the resources will be used and the allocation of responsibility IS/IT strategy. This defines the hardware and the software standards and preferred suppliers.</span></i></li>
<li style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: blue;">10. IS/IT strategy Determines the technological infrastructure of the organisation This ensures Appropriate technologies used Standards are set In terms of costs, efficiency and supporting business users, customers and others Determines how IT is applied within the organisation Ensures that IT supports the business strategy Ensures that the resources are made available</span></i></li>
<li style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: blue;">11. Organisation environment All organisations operate within an environment Micro-environment – immediate includes customers, suppliers and intermediaries Macro-environment – wider environment of social, legal, economic, political and technology The environment influences the way in which the organisation works</span></i></li>
<li style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: blue;">12. Seven R’s of strategy (Lickert, 97) These are ways in which organisations can compete, using information system strategy to respond to its external environment Reach Reaction Responsiveness Refinement Reconfiguration Redeployment Reputation</span></i></li>
<li style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: blue;">13. Strategy process model 1 Strategic analysis 2 Strategic objectives 3 Strategic definition 4 Strategic implementation Monitor, evaluate and respond</span></i></li>
<li style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: blue;">14. Strategy process model features Continual internal and external environment scanning to assess internal strengths and weaknesses and external opportunities and threats Clear statement of objectives Formulation of different strategic options and then selection Implementation and control of the strategy</span></i></li>
<li style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: blue;">15. Elements of information strategic management</span></i></li>
<li style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: blue;">16. Without Planning Financial losses Lower staff morale Missed opportunities Management will be fire-fighting continuously Reduced customer satisfaction.</span></i></li>
<li style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: blue;">17. To Summarise Before the tactical planning of information systems is carried out, the overall information system strategy must be agreed upon and communication to all other sub-systems. This strategy will identify areas within the business strategy that would benefit from new or improved information systems. It will map out a plan for the development of these systems based on strategic importance and availability of resources. It will incorporate new developments in technology and future needs. It will also decide between a policy of centrally-controlled development of systems or a strategy of local development to meet local needs.</span></i></li>
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<span style="background-color: cyan; color: #444444;"><span style="font-style: inherit;">Few people have suffered more constant misery and daily oppression in the last 50 years than the Palestinians. The key issue, however, concerns not the amount — although it has obviously been grossly exaggerated — but </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the source</span><span style="font-style: inherit;"> of that suffering. There are wildly varying accounts of who is to blame. Our purpose here is not to assess how much blame to assign – that everyone must do on their own – but to list the major contributors to Palestinian suffering, and what is the nature of that contribution. We welcome comment, further examples, suggestions, links, reflections, additions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><strong style="background-color: white;">ISRAEL:</strong><span style="background-color: orange;"><br />The most obvious source of Palestinian suffering is the Israelis. According to the <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/alam0418.html" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">dominant Palestinian “victim” narrative</a> , the Zionists came into the region, took their land, and, when war broke out in 1948, drove almost a million of them from their homes and relegated those who remained to second-class citizenship. The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/047146502X/102-6272315-9152122?v=glance" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">dominant Israeli narrative</a> has argued that they came as civilians, purchasing property, developing the economy, clearing malaria-infested swamps. Israelis claim that most of the refugees were created by the Arab armies that sought to destroy Israel and urged the Arab inhabitants to leave. Arabs, whose own leaders <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805510273/qid=1125967571/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_9/102-6272315-9152122?v=glance&s=books" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">openly declared their intention to massacre Israelis</a> , naturally believed that the Israelis would do the same to them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444;">Recently Israeli <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/047146502X/102-6272315-9152122?v=glance" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">“new” or “post-Zionist” historians </a> have questioned the Israeli version, arguing that there were concerted efforts to drive out Arab populations, as well as some actual massacres of Arab civilians. This revisionist work has received <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/071468063X/qid=1125846492/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-6272315-9152122?v=glance&s=books" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">sharp criticism from historians</a> who argue that these writers have misrepresented, even distorted the contents of the archives on which they base their work. (That Israeli historians would distort history to criticize their own country may strike some as bizarre if not inexplicable, but such a move combines both <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/self-criticism/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hyper-self-criticism</a> with therapeutic history: If we apologize, maybe they’ll stop hating us.) Not surprisingly, the <a href="http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=israel&ID=SP5599" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">Palestinian reaction</a> to Israeli post-Zionism has been more favorable: they think it confirms their narrative, and affirms their grievances.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444;">Since the conquest of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 war, over 2 million Palestinians have come under the military rule of Israel; and since the two uprisings of 1987-92 and 2000-?, the hostilities have produced a particularly onerous situation, in which Palestinian suffering most obviously derives from Israeli actions – <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/new.shtml" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">curfews, check-points and shut-downs</a> . To those who do not know the history of the conflict, the image of the Palestinian David throwing rocks and the Israeli Goliath in his tanks and planes seems not only accurate but poetically ironic.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444;">Most observers who, consciously or unconsciously accept the way that Arab and Palestinian leadership have framed the struggle in terms of <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/game-theory-and-social-emotions/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">zero-sum outcomes</a>, stop here. This is the foundation of both the Politically-Correct and the Post-Colonial Paradigms (<a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/paradigms-and-the-middle-east-conflict/paradigms-and-the-middle-east-conflict-pcp-1-and-2/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PCP1 & 2</a>). For the politically correct, who would not dream of challenging the Arab mind-set, there is no need to go further. Indeed some, exceptionally self-critical Israelis go still farther in the same direction: It is the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393321126/qid=1126303804/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-6272315-9152122?v=glance&s=books&n=507846" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">Arabs who have sought peace</a> and the Israelis who have rebuffed them. Obviously, Israeli victories mean Palestinian defeats; obviously Israeli presence means Palestinian displacements; obviously Israeli independence is a Palestinian Naqba. Obviously Israel and its ally America are the greatest contributors to Palestinian suffering. And were this the only way to conceive of the conflict, such a narrative might well be true.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444;">But from the perspective of <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/game-theory-and-social-emotions/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">progressive, positive-sum interactions</a> and the <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/civil-society-vs-prime-divider-society/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">civil society</a> such interactions foster, this can hardly be the whole story. On the contrary, when Zionists first came to Palestine the population was under a million. Today it pushes 10 million. Modern <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/civil-society-vs-prime-divider-society/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">civil society</a> and the culture of abundance that it produces can create many new opportunities for all involved. This need not have been a <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/essays-on-judeophobia/anti-semitism-arab-israeli-conflict/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">zero-sum conflict</a>, and while some Zionists, observing the growing dominion of al Husseini, argued for kicking Arabs out, many more continued to argue for a productive collaboration. So we now turn to the other sources of Palestinian suffering, those who have either forced or encouraged the Palestinians to see it only as a <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/game-theory-and-social-emotions/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">zero-sum game</a>, and to see the Israelis only through the lens of their own political rules: <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/cognitive-egocentrism/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dominate or be dominated</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444;">The contribution of Arab political culture to the suffering of Palestinians is less evident to those who do not know the history of the conflict. Arab political culture before Zionism was among the most autocratic and exploitative of the many <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/civil-society-vs-prime-divider-society/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“traditional” political cultures</a>: With Turkish administrators, wealthy Arab landlords living in Egypt, and Bedouin tribes raiding whenever they could, the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1566632692/qid=1125847083/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-6272315-9152122?v=glance&s=books" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">plight of the Palestinian peasant</a> had involved plenty of suffering. That kind of suffering continues <a href="http://hdr.undp.org/reports/detail_reports.cfm?view=912" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">endemically throughout the Arab world today</a> , regardless of whether the populace lives in an oil-rich state or not.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444;">It is characteristic of <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/civil-society-vs-prime-divider-society/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">prime-divider societies</a> run by adherents of the dominating imperative.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444;">But the Arab-Israeli conflict has increased the role of Arab political culture in the specific suffering of the Palestinians as a people. Fundamentally committed to <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/game-theory-and-social-emotions/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">zero-sum</a> outcomes in this conflict – Israel should not exist, and nothing short of the elimination of the “Zionist entity” could resolve the conflict – Arab political culture has consistently chosen wars they lose to resolution in this conflict. In the inability to succeed in this goal, Arab political culture has <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/essays-on-judeophobia/anti-semitism-arab-israeli-conflict/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">largely preferred negative-sum solutions</a> than exploring mutually beneficial solutions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444;">In 1958, Ralph Galloway, former UNWRA director <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf14.html" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">wrote</a> <span class="wrc_icon wrc01" rating="{"icon":"grey0-16.png","rating":0,"weight":1,"flags":{}}" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; height: 16px !important; line-height: 16px !important; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px !important; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px !important;"></span>:</span></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444;">“The Arab states do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore, as an affront to the United Nations, and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders do not give a damn whether Arab refugees live or die.”</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: orange; color: #444444;">One might even make a more damning assertion: they do care;<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> they want and need them to suffer.</em></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #444444;">ARAB LEAGUE:</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #444444;">Thus when the UN resolution of 1947 created two states, with <a href="http://www.mideastweb.org/unpartition.htm" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">the Palestinian one significantly greater</a> than the Israeli, which consisted of three scarcely contiguous units, the largest of which was desert wilderness, the Arab League, without consultation with the Palestinian people (just coordination with the <a href="http://notendur.centrum.is/~snorrigb/muftism.htm" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">Nazi ally al-Husseini</a> , rejected the partition and prepared for a <a href="http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_independence_arab_countries.php" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">war of annihilation</a> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;">The ensuing disaster (</span><a href="http://www.ourpalestine.org/gallery_naqba.htm" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">al-Naqba</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;"> ) produced a much larger and contiguous Israel with a substantial minority of Arab residents, and a widely dispersed population of Arab war refugees. At this point, rather than negotiate the best possible situation for the refugees,</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;"> </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,653594,00.html" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">the Arab League unanimously chose</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;">to continue the war and confine the Palestinian refugees to camps, as a weapon against Israel. The Palestinians became the</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;"> </span><a href="http://www.science.co.il/Arab-Israeli-conflict/Refugees.asp#Whyare" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">sacrificial pawn of Arab politics</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;"> , forced to live in squalor,</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;"> </span><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18020" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">indoctrinated with Nazi-inspired propaganda</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;"> </span><span class="wrc_icon wrc01" rating="{"icon":"grey0-16.png","rating":0,"weight":1,"flags":{}}" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; height: 16px !important; line-height: 16px !important; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px !important; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px !important;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;">in their schools, and </span><a href="http://www.arabnews.com/?page=9&section=0&article=49009&d=28&m=7&y=2004" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">held up to the world as an example of Israeli crimes against humanity</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;"> </span><span class="wrc_icon wrc01" rating="{"icon":"grey0-16.png","rating":0,"weight":1,"flags":{}}" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; height: 16px !important; line-height: 16px !important; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px !important; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px !important;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit;">. And of course, the worse they suffer, the worse the crime.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #444444;">But whose crime?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #444444;">This state of affairs beggars the <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/cognitive-egocentrism/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">liberal imagination</a>. Indeed many observers just assume that it was the Israelis who put the refugees in camps and kept them there. Michael Moore speaks about a visit to the refugee camps in 1988:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #444444;">Although in my life I had already traveled through Central America, China, Southeast Asia, and other parts of the Middle East. I wasn’t ready for what I saw in the refugee camps in the Occupied Territories. I had never encountered such squalor, debasement, and utter misery. To force human beings to live in these conditions – and deo so at the barrel of a gun, for more than forty years — just made no sense.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/006098726X/qid=1126645045/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-6272315-9152122?v=glance&s=books&n=507846" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stupid White Men</em></a> , p. 178.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #444444;">Now Moore seems to presume that it’s the Israelis who have done this to the Palestinians. (His next paragraph goes into how badly the Jews have been treated in the past and how sad that they should turn around and do it to someone else — the favorite formula of those attracted to <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/essays-on-judeophobia/anti-semitism-post-modern/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">moral <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Schadenfreude</em></a>.) He seems to have no awareness that for the first (and critical) half of the Palestinian experience of refugee confinement, it was Arab rulers and Arab guns who kept them in misery, and that once Israel took over <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=52&x_article=960" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">they tried to move these unfortunate victims out</a> into decent housing, and it was the Arabs who pushed UN Resolutions insisting that they be <a href="http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/7a2601a1c473558a852560de00494cf7!OpenDocu" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">returned to the squalor </a> of the camps.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #444444;">How much <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">more</em> nonsensical is that — it’s the Arabs who want their misery, not the Israelis?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #444444;">Unless one thinks in terms of <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/cognitive-egocentrism/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Domineering Cognitive Egocentrism</a>, and the <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/paradigms-and-the-middle-east-conflict/honor-shame-jihad-paradigm-hjp/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Honor-Jihad Paradigm</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #444444;">After the second Naqba of 1967, with the Israelis offering to return most of the conquered territories in exchange for peace, the Arab League met at Khartoum and issued the <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/three_noes.html" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">“Three No’s”</a> <span class="wrc_icon wrc01" rating="{"icon":"grey0-16.png","rating":0,"weight":1,"flags":{}}" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; height: 16px !important; line-height: 16px !important; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px !important; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px !important;"></span> – “No negotiations, no recognition, no peace!” In the context of contributing to Palestinian suffering, this decision of the Arab League — with Arafat, al-Husseini’s nephew, representing the Palestinian people’s “interests” — reveals perhaps more than anything, the “incomprehensible” skew of this conflict. To save the “honor” of the Arab nation and <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not</em> have to recognize or make peace with this rebellious, tiny, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dhimmi</em> people, these Arab leaders preferred to leave over two million Arabs under Israeli rule. And given how for an Arab Muslim, it is a stain to one’s honor to live under the rule of another people — above all, a people who should be subject — they knew that this “occupation” they were sanctioning, would poison the Israeli’s world no matter how beneficent or economically advantageous Israeli rule might prove.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #444444;">And when the Palestinians threatened the stability of the Hashemite kingdom in Jordan – the only Arab country to offer them citizenship – King Hussein’s troops massacred as many as 10,000 Palestinian men, women and children in one month, remembered in Palestinian lore as <a href="http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/bravo/blacksept1970.htm" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">Black September</a> . PLO troops <a href="http://world.std.com/~camera/docs/alert/npratone.html" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">fled to Israel</a> rather than fall into Jordanian hands. Many Palestinians and other Arabs acknowledge their <a href="http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=3367" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">victimization by their “fellow” Arabs</a> . Current Palestinian Authority Prime-Minister <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18072" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">Mahumud Abbas said in 1976</a> <span class="wrc_icon wrc01" rating="{"icon":"grey0-16.png","rating":0,"weight":1,"flags":{}}" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; height: 16px !important; line-height: 16px !important; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px !important; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px !important;"></span> that,</span></span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #444444;">…the Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from Zionist tyranny but, instead, they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate, and to leave their homeland, and threw them into prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews used to live.” (Falastin a-Thaura, March 1976).</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #444444;">However, such honest remarks by Palestinians are tempered partly by their desire to enlist support from the very Arabs who victimised them, partly by their fear of reprisal, partly by their Honor-bound need to believe that the Israelis are their greatest enemies.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><strong style="background-color: white;">PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP</strong><span style="background-color: white;">:</span><span style="background-color: lime;"> Palestinian political culture, from the earliest period of Zionist settlement, has fostered the <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/game-theory-and-social-emotions/" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">zero-sum mentality</a> whenever possible. The <a href="http://www.meforum.org/article/206" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">uprising of 1936-9</a> , supposedly fighting the British and the Zionists, ended up killing far more Arabs (vendettas, looting) than either English or Jews. The Peel Commission (1939) asked Arab rioters why, despite the increased levels of prosperity brought to Palestine by their arrival, they attacked the Jews, one Arab responded:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: #444444;"><strong>You say we are better off: you say my house has been enriched by the strangers who have entered it. But it is my house, and I did not invite the strangers in, or ask them to enrich it, and I do not care how poor it is if I am only master of it.” </strong>(<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1566632692?v=glance" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">Weathered by Miracles</a> </em>, p. 207)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: #444444;">The pattern whereby the Palestinians suffered more from the militant policies of their leadership than Israelis became a standard feature of all the “uprisings,” from the “nationalist uprising” of 1936-39, to the <a href="http://members.cox.net/slsturgi3/RadicalBeanCounter.htm" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">“intifada” of the late 1980s</a> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="wrc_icon wrc01" rating="{"icon":"grey0-16.png","rating":0,"weight":1,"flags":{}}" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 16px !important; height: 16px !important; line-height: 16px !important; line-height: 16px !important; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px !important; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px !important; width: 16px !important;"></span></span> and the <a href="http://friendvill0104.homestead.com/TheReign.html" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">“second intifada” of 2000</a> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="wrc_icon wrc01" rating="{"icon":"grey0-16.png","rating":0,"weight":1,"flags":{}}" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 16px !important; height: 16px !important; line-height: 16px !important; line-height: 16px !important; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px !important; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px !important; width: 16px !important;"></span></span>. In general, terrorists almost never limit their aggression to the “enemy”, and since their own populations do not have the protection that enemies can mobilize, they tend to suffer the daily impositions of their “militants” far more. And until it becomes<a href="http://majnouna.blogspot.com/2006/12/7-palestinians-killed-by-palestinians.html" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true"> completely unbearable</a> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="wrc_icon wrc01" rating="{"icon":"grey0-16.png","rating":0,"weight":1,"flags":{}}" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 16px !important; height: 16px !important; line-height: 16px !important; line-height: 16px !important; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 15px !important; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 16px !important; width: 16px !important;"></span></span>, most people in such terror-dominated societies stay silent.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: white;">“SECULAR” PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP:</strong><span style="background-color: magenta;"> The degree to which Palestinian leadership has followed the lead of Arab League politics in victimizing its own people can best be seen in the formation of the PLO in 1964. Rather than demand the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, governed by Jordan, as a sovereign nation in which they might begin the long-overdue process of getting people out of the refugee camps and into decent housing and work situations, <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=52&x_article=960" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">they ignored the plight of their brethren</a> , and focused on the elimination of the Zionist entity. National Liberation consistently took second place to the <a href="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/plocov.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">annihilation of another nation</a> .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: magenta;">The widespread practice of <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2006/05/31/honor-killings-and-tyranny-palestinians-execute-collaborators/" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">executing “collaborators” without trial</a>, even <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2215320.stm" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">women</a> , has throttled any “moderate” Palestinian leadership from emerging. <a href="http://www.worldandi.com/newhome/public/2003/may/clpub.asp" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">Rape and sexual assault of women</a> is a common form of intimidating other Palestinians into cooperation and as a way of rewarding one’s “soldiers” for their efforts. Palestinians themselves often acknowledge how much of their suffering derives from the corruption of their own leaders, but rarely do they take it the further step to wonder whether this is not merely corruption or violence, but also an endemic problem of their political culture.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: magenta;">ISLAMIC POLITICAL CULTURE: The emergence of a powerful<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/157105247X/qid=1126125504/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-6272315-9152122?v=glance&s=books&n=507846" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true"> culture of Jihad in Palestinian circles </a> (Islamic Jihad and Hamas) have intensified the dynamic of self-inflicted suffering. Promoting a <a href="http://www.pmw.org.il/ASK%20FOR%20DEATH.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">culture of death</a> that encourages youth to die trying to kill Israelis has contributed immeasurably to the casualties among Palestinian youth, whether <a href="http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/sib/4_05/univ.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">intentionally</a> or <a href="http://www.sptimes.com/2005/02/13/Worldandnation/Little_girl_s_death_a.shtml" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">unintentionally</a> . The notion that suffering in this world wins <a href="http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP67304" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">rewards in the world to come</a> gives a particularly powerful motivation to self-destruction. Indeed, Islamic Jihad gives a new meaning to positive-sum outcomes within the framework of negative-sum behavior: if a Muslim dies in battle with the infidel, he goes to heaven; if he succeeds in winning the Jihad, his reward is in this world as well. The war begun in October 2000, in which Islamic Jihad has played a particularly prominent role, has <a href="http://www.freemuslims.org/news/article.php?article=165" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">inflicted immense suffering on the Palestinians</a> , perhaps more than almost any earlier catastrophic rush to violence.</span></div>
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<strong>INTERNATIONAL FOREIGN POLICY</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;">Once one factors in the ways in which Arab political culture thrives on victimizing the Palestinians, one becomes aware of another source of Palestinian suffering: the “support” the Palestinian leadership gets from outsiders, particularly 1) the Europeans, 2) the UN, 3) the “progressive left,” and 4) the media. For the last three decades, since the mid-1970s, these parties have become increasingly anti-Israel and, supposedly, pro-Palestinian.</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: cyan;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Attitude to Arafat</strong></em>: Yassir Arafat’s feckless leadership has done immense damage to the Palestinians, from his<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/07/60minutes/main582487.shtml" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true"> financial corruption</a> , to his <a href="http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/mepp/new_prrn/research/papers/brynen2.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">addiction to honor and violence</a> , to his systematic mendacity and incapacity to make <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200509/samuels" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">the shift from “guerrilla” to statesmen</a> . And yet <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4001697.stm" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">European leaders have lionized him</a> , even at the height of his terrorist activities in the 1970s.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: cyan;"><strong><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Condemnations of Israel</em></strong>: The UN has spent up to 40% of its time <a href="http://www.science.co.il/Arab-Israeli-conflict/Articles/AIPAC-2002-05-20.asp" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">condemning Israel</a> , illustrating the<a href="http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1313923&ct=3698367" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">dangers of anti-Zionism</a> as a <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Islam-Today-Muslims-Reform/dp/0312327005/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-6199563-7207810?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175482803&sr=8-1" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">Weapon of Mass Distraction</a> </em>. By giving the irredentist Palestinian cause international support, they have strengthened precisely the forces most dedicated to victimizing Palestinians. And of course, Palestinians, not understanding who was benefited from such one-sided condemnations, cheered on the process.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: cyan;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong>Foreign Policy that encouraged Palestinian violence</strong></em>: Chirac’s <a href="http://americanfuture.net/?page_id=614" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">whole foreign policy</a> , and specifically his role in the <a href="http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/14665/edition_id/285/format/html/displaystory.html" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">failure to staunch the violence in early October 2000</a> that led to the disastrous “Second Intifada,” was itself only a continuation of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-France-Arabs-David-Pryce-Jones/dp/1594031517" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">so much of French foreign policy in the Middle East</a> . They, like so many “pro-Palestinian” diplomats, have betrayed everyone but the warmongers.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;">The mistake appears in the very formulation. By falling into the zero-sum formulations of the Arab and Palestinian leadership, these major world forces reinforce the very figures who have most to win from victimizing the Palestinians.</span></div>
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<strong>LEFT</strong>:</div>
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<span style="background-color: lime;">The role of the Left may be the single most striking illustration of the ironic reversals in this conflict. One might argue in the last decade that the Palestinians have become the “<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=palestinian%2Bsuffering&btnG=Google%2BSearch&domains=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.counterpunch.org&sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.counterpunch.org" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">chosen people</a>” of the Left, in that anyone who is more critical of them than of the Israelis is considered a right-wing neo-conservative (at best). And yet, the Palestinians have hardly flourished under this “progressive” solicitude. Rather than urging the Palestinians to develop the kind of qualities necessary for a progressive state that takes care of its citizens and encourages freedom of thought and expression (e.g., public self-criticism, protection of dissidents), the Left has systematically “explained” Palestinian violence as<a href="http://www.sptimes.com/2003/08/10/Columns/US_policy_of_blaming_.shtml" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true"> the result of Israeli (and American) policies</a> . As a result, the Left reinforces the most regressive and fascist elements in Palestinian culture, even as <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/demopaths-dupes/" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">they claim to work for peace and civil society.</a></span></div>
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<strong>MEDIA:</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">The contribution of the Media to Palestinian suffering may be the most subtle, but also the most pervasive. The nature of media coverage – if it bleeds it leads – has always favored violence, and in particular fed the need of terrorists for attention. Its superficial and dramatic news has encouraged the <a href="http://www.americancongressfortruth.com/index.html" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">systematic victimization of Arabs for the purposes of international sympathy</a> . By ignoring or playing down the <a href="http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part6.html" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">Palestinian calls for genocide</a> against Israel and <a href="http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part8.html" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">hatred of the West</a> , while at the same time portraying <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1076084,00.html" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">Israel as the cause of war</a> and of whatever <a href="http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2007/01/stephen_pollard.html" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">damage Palestinians do to themselves</a> , the media have contributed to a profound misunderstanding of the sources of – and therefore the solutions to – the conflict.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">But the principle “if it bleeds it leads” actually takes second seat in the MSM coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict to <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">who</em> commits the violence. When Israeli kills a Palestinian child, it receives a good deal of coverage; when the Palestinians kill Palestinian children, newsreports are laconic at best. (Google <a href="http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=palestinians+kill+palestinian+child&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">Palestinians kill Palestinian child</a> and you get only entries on Israelis killing Palestinian children.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Given the extraordinary sensitivity of <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2006/05/16/honor-shame-comments-on-dr-sanity-long/" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Arab honor-shame culture</a> to public disapproval, one might even argue that the sympathy and understanding that the media grant to the most <a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/pa-fisk240304.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">depraved of Palestinian terrorists</a> , represents an enormous opportunity cost. When 500 Palestinian intellectuals <a href="http://www.mideastweb.org/palandpeace.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">denounced suicide terrorism</a> , they did so because it did not serve the Palestinian cause — indeed it lost them international sympathy. Were the international community to have condemned it with even greater insistence, these voices would have had even greater strength. When the media mis-reported the outbreak of Oslo War in late 2000, arousing world-wide support for the Palestinians in their struggle for “freedom”, they encouraged Arafat to believe that “<a href="http://www.seconddraft.org/article.php?id=195&a_tit=seventh+war" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">the whole world is behind him</a> ” so that he had no need to work to lessen the violence. By promoting and diffusing stories of alleged atrocities committed by Israel without a solid background check, the media reinforce the hate-mongering propaganda of the Palestinian leadership. “Balancing” negative coverage of the Arabs with unfounded accusations of the Israelis, for example, balancing stories of “honor killings” with <a href="http://www.menaworld.com/viewtopic.php?topic=492&forum=17&0" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">accusations of rape of Palestinian women</a> by Israelis and seizing on Palestinian accusation of “<a href="http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w050801&s=dallal080505" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrc_done="true">massacres</a> .”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">There is no question how much Palestinians have suffered and continued to suffer, but there are many sources to this suffering. To truly sympathize and help improve the wretched condition of Palestinians, one must understand the wide range the factors that cause their suffering. One way to conceive of this problem is to ask, what if the Palestinians had their own state? Would their conditions improve? To judge by their conditions under Jordanian rule (1948-67), or their conditions in Lebanon when the PLO had power (1970-82), or <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2007/03/29/lessons-from-the-gaza-sewage-tsunami-a-teaching-moment/" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gaza after withdrawal</a> (2005-), or by the fate of other Arab peoples ruled over by their own elites… no. If the state and its governors are committed to ruling for the people, if they pursue positive-sum strategies both domestically and with the Israeli neighbors, then we can hope for a dramatic improvement in their condition. But for that to happen, we progressives would need to <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2007/03/31/731/" style="border: 0px; color: #529928; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">put our shoulders behind a very different wheel</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Can we do it? What’s preventing us?</span></div>
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