from SLATE's news summary:>In a story that has been slowly percolating in the papers since Monday, the [Washington POST] fronts news that Palestinians in the West Bank city of Nablus have been defying the Israeli army's near 24-hour curfew. The Post calls the curfew-strike the "boldest demonstration of civil disobedience" since the Intifada II started nearly two years ago. An Israeli government spokesman said the army isn't planning to intervene.<
this isn't just bold, but a tactic (or strategy) that should be applied _all_ through Palestine. The Israelis can usually deal with suicide bombing and the like and when they can't, it just makes things worse, by given fodder to the Sharons of the world (who then give fodder to Hamas and the like). But they can't deal with mass civil disobedience.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
