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Article: Peace agreement will not stop Islamic upheaval: Clinton will be doing something if he can get lower oil prices for the United States
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- The Philadelphia Tribune
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- October 27, 2000
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Schurmann, Franz
Philadelphia Tribune, The
10-27-2000
Peace agreement will not stop Islamic upheaval: Clinton will be doing
something if he can get lower oil prices for the United States
The great German general of the early 1800's Karl von Clausewitz wrote "war
is just politics by other means." His spirit, now beholding the carnage in
the Holy Land, must be musing "how true."
There is not much room in Israel and Palestine for genuine wars like
"Desert Storm" of 1991. So the conflict takes the form of savage cruelty
among humans abetted by politicians. The central figures now are not
generals but politicians. On the Israeli side it's a general turned
politician, Ehud Barak. On the Palestinian side ...