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There are over 3 million Palestinians. Other than sending
them to France, does anyone rejecting the Bush road map have a realistic answer to the simple question, what do you do with 3 million people?

I think you do with them what Israel wants done with them. Israel doesn't oppose a state... but, you can't enforce peace on either side... and you can't reward terror.

If the Road Map is allowed to succeed without significant reform in the PA, then that Palestinian state becomes 1) Judenrein 2) a Terror Oganization 3)committed to the Phased Plan, which is the next step (according to the Palestinians) of their destruction of Israel.

Those in Israel who oppose a state (Netanyahu is one) understand the long-term goals of the PA.

There are Palestinians in the West Bank who just want peace. Who think Israel is a good friend. They do not have a voice and no power. Arafat's control is too great.

Reform can happen if those Palestinians who will work for peace can be elevated into power. Do that, and a Palestinian state could work. But, the roadmap doesn't address it.

Lip service is given to the terror mostly because the West sees the terror as a sympton of hopelessness and not the work of hopefulness. Terror continues because terror works. Terror has consistently caused the West to deliver Israel and coerce Israel into positions that are untenable.

I do believe the President when he says that terror must stop... and reforms must be implemented. But Europe, Russia, the UN, and our own State Department are putting out a different signal altogether. A state in 5 years... no matter what.

what do you do with 3 million people?

There are 21 Muslim Arab countries full of empty land.