=jplt12

19 April '04

It's a pity that Sharon, on his way down, had to take Likud with
him.

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UNPRINTABLE, BUT BRIEF

Sharon has balls, in place of frontal lobes.

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It is not necessarily a compliment to Israel to say that they'd do
the same in Texas.                           

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To the IHT:

Maureen Dowd argues (IHT 20 Apr '04) that Colin Powell should have
resigned on principle.  But that would have left the Bushie's 
alone without an adult.

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23 April '04

RESPECT FOR THE PRIME MINISTER #2

Someone should tell poor old Sharon that he doesn't have to sit in
jail, before he does something really crazy.

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INSANITY'S NOT IRRATIONALITY

Looks like Gonen Segev's gone insane, but not irrational except in
one small self-destructive patch.  But the M'Naughten rule
applies; presumably he rationally knows, even if, like a
psychopath,  he is too distraught to empathetically feel, the
difference between right and wrong.  And a pediatrician who would
push the apparently brutalizing drug Ecstacy -- grotesquely
disguised as candy -- to adolescents, should be locked up. 

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LET'S JUST PUSH THIS BUTTON AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS

[Chairperson Poopooface]* should be isolated financially --
including a complete block on all EU payments to the PA -- but not
assassinated:  he is presently ineffectual, and the consequences
of splattring him over the world's front pages are incalculable.
               

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NONPUB NOTE:          
*[The Lubavitcher Rebbe said that there are two names which one
ought not say.]

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Sharon's disengagement plan might prove problematic; it's a bit
difficult to negotiate with a tiger at a barbecue.

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To:  IHT

"Doonesbury" (Gary Trudeau) is a great editorial cartoon; Calvin &
Hobbes is often cute;  Charlie Shultz created a rather touching
world.  Apart from that, the comics in the IHT are irritating
(Dilbert) or forgettable.

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Ref:  IHT English AM News 26 April, reporting Sharon commitments
to share with the U.S. satellite maps of settlement construction
and of YeShA checkpoints.

Sent JP 26 Apr '04; Revised below.


Considering the way the Bush Administration is attempting to
confront the international terrorist destablization campaign in
Iraq, it is not obvious that Sharon should invite it to
micro_manage Israel's settlement and security in the post-1967
areas of the land of Israel.