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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">-----Mensagem original-----</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">De: forum-prof-bounces@if.ufrj.br [<A HREF="mailto:forum-prof-bounces@if.ufrj.br">mailto:forum-prof-bounces@if.ufrj.br</A>] Em nome de Luis Paulo Vieira Braga</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Enviada em: terça-feira, 20 de janeiro de 2009 17:01</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Para: Antonio Carlos Fernandes; forum-prof@listas.if.ufrj.br</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Assunto: Re: NA LAPA Re: [forum-prof] Eduardo Gaelano sobre a guerra</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">A banalização do mal tem que ser combatida aonde acontecer e fôr noticiada. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Fiquei particularmente chocado com a notícia da morte do estudante, </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">usualmente dou aula para a engenharia e além disso também estudei no mesmo </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">colégio que a vítima.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:39:30 -0300, Antonio Carlos Fernandes wrote</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> LUIS PAULO,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> Enquanto isso há massagre de estudantes da UFRJ no Rio de Janeiro. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> Ver anexo. Não precisa teorizar até tão longe. Debaixo do nosso </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> nariz sangrando a guerra continua. Abrç ANTONIO CARLOS</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">></FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">Prezado Antonio Carlos</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">Fernandes.</FONT></I></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">Em 1976 ou 1977</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">ou 1978</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">, um aluno</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">bolsista</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">do Convênio Petrobrás-UFRJ,</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">chama</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">do Alexandre, pacat</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">o</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">,</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">estudioso,</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">sempre sorridente</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">, saiu da</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">Gafieira</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">Elite dirigindo seu fusca zero quilometro, contornou a Praça da República e um bandido dirigindo na contramão atingiu-o fatalmente. Ele faleceu</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">,</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New"> sofrendo</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New"></FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">muito</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">,</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New"></FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">na Emergência do Hospital.</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New"> Na mesma noite me telefonaram e eu fui ao</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">Caju</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">, onde o corpo</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">já</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">estava sendo velado.</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> </I></B></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">Nós conversávamos quando</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">dava</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">tempo, pois o curso era</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">"</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">arrochado"</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">.</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> </I></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">Ninguém conseguiu entender essa</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New"> tragédia</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">.</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> </I></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">Naquele</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">tempo Vinicius de Morais</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">j</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">á recitava que "existem razões que a própria razão desconhece".</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">A banalização do mal tem de ser combatida</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">,</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New"> sim</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">!</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New"></FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> </I></B></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">E</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">,</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">principalmente, quando é usada como pretexto para algumas pessoas externarem seu</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">ódio,</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">inveja,</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">preconceito e racismo</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">, como</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New"></FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">na presente lista de discussão</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">. </FONT></I></B></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">Felizmente</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">, outras pessoas</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New"> sérias</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New"></FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">não teori</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">z</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">am</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">, pois conhecem a natureza real do problema</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">,</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">como expresso na</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> <FONT FACE="Courier New">carta seguinte, que n</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">ão necessita de tradução.</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New"></FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I></I></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I> </I></B></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><I><FONT FACE="Courier New">Abraham Zakon</FONT></I></B></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><U></U></B></SPAN><B><U><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#1F497D" SIZE=5 FACE="Arial">T</FONT></SPAN></U></B><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><U></U></B></SPAN><B><U><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Arial">he War with Israel is Over</FONT></SPAN></U></B><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><U></U></B></SPAN><B><U><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#1F497D" SIZE=5 FACE="Arial">.</FONT></SPAN></U></B><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"><B><U></U></B></SPAN><B><U><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Arial"> by Youssef Ibrahim</FONT></SPAN></U></B><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><BR>
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<FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">The War with Israel Is Over.................and they won.<BR>
By Youssef M. Ibrahim<BR>
<BR>
To my Arab brothers: The War with Israel Is Over - and they won. Now<BR>
let's finally move forward</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">With Israel entering its fourth week of an incursion into the same<BR>
Gaza Strip it voluntarily evacuated a few months ago, a sense of<BR>
reality among Arabs is spreading through commentary by Arab pundits,<BR>
letters to the editor, and political talk shows on Arabic-language TV<BR>
networks. The new views are stunning both in their maturity and in<BR>
their realism. The best way I can think of to convey them is in the<BR>
form of a letter to the Palestinian Arabs from their Arab friends:<BR>
<BR>
Dear Palestinian Arab brethren:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">The war with Israel is over.<BR>
You have lost. Surrender and negotiate to secure a future for your children.<BR>
We, your Arab brothers, may say until we are blue in the face that we<BR>
stand by you, but the wise among you and most of us know that we are<BR>
moving on, away from the tired old idea of the Palestinian Arab cause<BR>
and the "eternal struggle" with Israel .</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">Dear friends, you and your leaders have wasted three generations<BR>
trying to fight for Palestine , but the truth is the Palestine you<BR>
could have had in 1948 is much bigger than the one you could have had<BR>
in 1967, which in turn is much bigger than what you may have to settle<BR>
for now or in another 10 years. Struggle means less land and more<BR>
misery and utter loneliness.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">At the moment, brothers, you would be lucky to secure a semblance of a<BR>
state in that Gaza Strip into which you have all crowded, and a small<BR>
part of the West Bank of the Jordan . It isn't going to get better.<BR>
Time is running out even for this much land, so here are some facts,<BR>
figures, and sound advice, friends.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">You hold keys, which you drag out for television interviews, to houses<BR>
that do not exist or are inhabited by Israelis who have no intention<BR>
of leaving Jaffa , Haifa , Tel Aviv, or West Jerusalem . You shoot old<BR>
guns at modern Israeli tanks and American-made fighter jets, doing<BR>
virtually no harm to Israel while bringing the wrath of its mighty<BR>
army down upon you. You fire ridiculously inept Kassam rockets that<BR>
cause little destruction and delude yourselves into thinking this is a<BR>
war of liberation. Your government, your social institutions, your<BR>
schools, and your economy are all in ruins.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">Your young people are growing up illiterate, ill, and bent on rites of<BR>
death and suicide, while you, in effect, are living on the kindness of<BR>
foreigners, including America and the United Nations. Every day your<BR>
officials must beg for your daily bread, dependent on relief trucks<BR>
that carry food and medicine into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank ,<BR>
while your criminal Muslim fundamentalist Hamas government continues<BR>
to fan the flames of a war it can neither fight nor hope to win.<BR>
In other words, brothers, you are down, out, and alone in a burnt-out<BR>
landscape that is shrinking by the day.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">What kind of struggle is this? Is it worth waging at all? More<BR>
important, what kind of miserable future does it portend for your<BR>
children, the fourth or fifth generation of the Arab world's have-nots?<BR>
We, your Arab brothers, have moved on.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><BR>
<FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">Those of us who have oil money are busy accumulating wealth and<BR>
building housing, luxury developments, state-of-the-art universities<BR>
and schools, and new highways and byways. Those of us who share<BR>
borders with Israel , such as Egypt and Jordan , have signed a peace<BR>
treaty with it and are not going to war for you any time soon. Those<BR>
of us who are far away, in places like North Africa and Iraq , frankly<BR>
could not care less about what happens to you.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">Only Syria continues to feed your fantasies that someday it will join<BR>
you in liberating Palestine, even though a huge chunk of its<BR>
territory, the entire Golan Heights, was taken by Israel in 1967 and<BR>
annexed. The Syrians, my friends, will gladly fight down to the last<BR>
Palestinian Arab.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><BR>
<FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">Before you got stuck with this Hamas crowd, another cheating,<BR>
conniving, leader of yours, Yasser Arafat, sold you a rotten bill of<BR>
goods - more pain, greater corruption, and millions stolen by his<BR>
relatives - while your children played in the sewers of Gaza .<BR>
<BR>
The war is over. Why not let a new future begin?<BR>
<BR>
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<FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">Youssef M. Ibrahim, a former New York Times Middle East Correspondent</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">and Wall Street Journal Energy Editor for 25 years, is a freelance</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Arial"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="pt-br"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Arial">writer based in New York City and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.<BR>
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