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You are referring to the six day war, I presume. Well, Egypt and Jordan have since signed peace treaties with Israel.... and have accepted their "right to exsist". Other countries have not...... and that's a condition of the roadmap for the PA to do. I don't expect that even if they do, they'll live up to it. But, any success of peace in the region is not dependent on the PA, but on it's neighbors - like Syria, Lebanon, (Iraq is no longer a problem), and others. If syria, for example, actually gives up their occupation of lebanon, and does away with all terrorist support, etc, etc...... that will have more effect on peace than what the PA does.

I don't believe peace is going to come by 2005. Maybe never. But..... if any kind of WMD hits Israel, Israel is ready to retaliate quite directly. They aren't going to 'negotiate'..... they'll use their nukes on Damascus and others if necessary. They have nothing to lose but their country. And I 'think' their neighbors know this. Which is why the "homicide attacks" are as much of violence that anyone will do. Imagine what would happen if rockets started raining down on Israel from Hezbollah located in Lebonon. Israel isn't going to just 'talk'..... and that's what scares the hell out of Damascus, since they control Lebanon.

The roadmap is DOA I'm afraid. Arafat has to be gone first. And other countries must sign the peace treaties. The PA isn't even a state - they can't sign a thing. But.... I'm willing to watch.

The way I look at it, what Syria does and what the PA does are one and the same. without Hamas, Hizbullah etc. located in Damascus the PA's power would be greatly diminished and would render the Pali's innefective against Israel. (even though we all know that if Israel wanted to end the problem they could in a matter of minutes.) The problem is, Israel is a moral nation opposed (many of them atleast) to such actions as carpet bombing the Pali's etc. So what we have is a stale mate. I think that more wight needs to be put on the Pali's and the Arab world as a whole to put an end to this...and if they wont, and end needs to be created.