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Again, you prove my point.

What is of primary importance is getting some control over the flow of foreign money to the PA. This requires playing to the effete and corrupt but rich and powerful EU (and American) audience. The forces behind the UNHCR are largely the same people. Oslo 2? Yup. As in the world tour of "Dancing Through the Tulips, or Peace and Love and Happiness in the Middle East." Lots of songs and dancing, love interest, happy toiling peasants and workers, etc.

Notice that the current events, including the "Rabin" rhetoric, are keeping the security barrier out of the news. There are other factors in this, including the support for the security barrier amongst American Jews. The security barrier is working very well, and will work even better as time goes on.

Sharon can say, thanks to you guys, "Actually I am an Oslo liberal, so tired of war, and eager to embrace my Palestinian brothers with love and forgiveness, but Israel is a democracy, and see the people I have to deal with (guys like you). If I go any faster or further, I am out, probably dead, and those awful people (guess who) will be in power."

All it will cost is some expensive to support fortified Gaza settlements, which can be put back in place very quickly when the time comes.