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The Israelis have had seven days to deal with the terrorist attacks against the people of Israel.

Right, they get only seven days and we get seven months

Israelis and Americans have pointed out that in the last 48 hours there have been no suicide bombs

And since 9-11 there have been no suicide bombers here, yet we have not stopped our incursion into Afghanistan.

and they think that some of the Israeli actions have in fact brought about some results.

All the more reason NOT to cut them short

I do think that the president tried very hard to put forward an even-handed approach.

I wonder how we'd feel if someone offered us an "even handed" approach with Al Qaeda? I wonder how we'd feel if our friend(?) told us that Osama is not a terrorist, but rather a "partner for peace"? and that we need to stop our incursions in Afghanisan?

Oh paaaaaalease already the hypocrisy is making me sick!

This is just an effort to keep the Europeans from stepping in, and making a real mess of things. I'm much more comforatble with Powell there, rather than some Spanish, French, German, etc. idiot making some sort of Neville Chamberlain type of agreement. We may as well get the "credit" as long as we seem to need the Arab sheiks to stay useful fools while we finish our own business in Iraq.

I admit, its not easy watching our President look like he's kowtowing to terrorists for a short while, but any lies he wants Powell to tell Arafat in order to ultimately help our troops in the coming battles is OK with me. I don't worry, any Pallie who even thinks about cooperating with Israel will be shot by the militant ragheads. Sharon is smart enough to keep his troops safe during the "negotiation" period, besides, they probably could use the time to reload for the final battle.