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The terror has to end, the only way to end it is to establish a just peace. But peace with Arafat is impossible--so peace must be made with someone else.

The only question is whether Bush would want to work towards this plan first, or first try to topple Saddam. I would suggest moving against Saddam first, because nation-building takes far longer than regime-whacking, and both building up Palestine and Iraq could be done simultaneously.

I've come to the conclusion that only this or transfer will bring peace to the Middle East, and transfer (forcibly ejecting Palestinians from the territories) is not really a feasible option (it's not nice, either).

Establishing peace in the Middle East would also make Bush look really good, it would win him a large amount of credit from moderates on the world stage, which is necessary if he wants to work multilaterally towards other foreign policy goals.

1 posted on 03/23/2002 1:16:50 AM PST by xm177e2
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To: veronica; lent; sabertooth; dennisw;rcw2001;demidog;American in Israel; sheik yerbouty...
Just my two cents...

If Arafat is gone, and the Palestinians feel sufficiently threatened with transfer (if they don't shape up), I think peace is possible. If it's not possible, there's always transfer--and if Israel plays it's cards right, the Palestinians will have only themselves to blame for it.

2 posted on 03/23/2002 1:21:38 AM PST by xm177e2
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To: Pissed Off Janitor; weikel; monkeyshine
Sorry, I forgot to ping you guys
4 posted on 03/23/2002 9:51:02 AM PST by xm177e2
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To: xm177e2
Sunday morning bump.
9 posted on 03/24/2002 6:07:22 AM PST by Valin
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To: xm177e2
I just saw an interesting Dateline repeat in the wee hours of the morning ... showed several israeli and palestinian teenage boys who had been friends, involved in the "seeds of peace" program together... now grown up and growing apart because of the conflict in the area. Their points of view were quite telling. Trying to locate a transcript.
15 posted on 08/12/2002 11:00:23 AM PDT by Terriergal
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