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It was obvious that the "senior statesman" status that the media has given Baker is hollow. Just like Baker himself joked, the ISG is a bunch of has-been's. The picture of the ISG looked like a rest home advertisement. Sandra Day O'Connor is a lovely person--but would you put a former Supreme Court justice in the same league with Joan of Arc? And the last encounter Vernon Jordan had with armaments was "In 1980, [when he] was shot in the back by a white supremacist who said he was out to kill 'race-mixers.' The Jordan shooting occurred at 2 a.m. as he was returning to his motel with a white woman. The shooter was acquitted at trial but later admitted the act." (He was married at the time and his wife died in 1985 from cancer.) (Washington Post 1-27-1998)

The ISG recommendations are vapid. The audacity of this group to involve another sovereign nation (Israel) as a bargaining chip in another country's problems is beyond arrogant. Talk of returning Palestinians to their land is like talking about returning Manhattan to the Indians. Zionists bought that land starting in the 19th-century. Other Arabs in Damascus (those "flippable" Syrians) and Cairo sold Palestinian land they owned to the highest bidders. There was no fellow-Arab loyalty to the Palestinians as they are the lowest of the low on the Arab totem pole. The other lands without clear title were appropriated by the UN. If the Palestinians were so concerned then about the loss of their lands, why didn't they fight for their property rights legally sixty years ago? Baker's unathorized appropriation of Israel should have been no surprise considering that 15 years ago Baker told Israel to get rid of the settlements, their line of defense against Palestinian aggression.

Israel ceded the settlements and the land, and the Palestinians still aren't happy. The Arabs will never be happy no matter how much is ceded and how many infidels die. They will destroy Israel, overtake Europe, and do all they can to kill off Americans. They will eliminate Hindus, Buddhists, and all the rest. Then they will turn on each other, Arab v. Arab disagreeing over minutiae about shaving, how much a woman must cover herself, and who should have been next-in-line after Mohamed died. Their hunger will never be sated and the ISG appeasement is not "success in Iraq" but feeding the the machine that will destroy Western Civilization.