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(a) Is Friedman making the argument that a global intifada is developing - the mirror image of Sharon associating America's war on terror with Israel's struggle against Palestinian suicide bombers - only now it is America's presence and influence in the Middle East that is resented?

(b) Is this isolating America now along with Israel?

(c) Might this isolation in the world that Kerry talks about become one of the key issues leading to the President's defeat?

(d) Would Kerry who is more associated with European and U.N. opinion have a different policy regarding the Middle East and Israel/Palestinians?

(e) Is there a danger of this global intifada irrationally morphing into a modern nazism via Al Qaeda?

(f) Would the American Jewish community work to give Bush some political cover in isolating what Friedman considers political extremism, thereby countering Kerry's charge of increasing isolation?

(g) If it is not considered political extremism on the part of Sharon and the "Jewish Hezbollah" as Friedman calls it, how do you see this global intifada playing itself out? Only after the standing up of democracies in Iraq, Iran, Syria, North Korea and a Palestinian state?

(h) As such does Israel want to be known as in the front of this movement of liberation and democracy, one step of which is gaining regime change from Arafat and fair elections among the Palestinians?

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