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To: Sir Francis Drake who wrote (53816)	10/23/2002 12:07:20 AM
From: Hawkmoon	of 281500

Withdraw from occupied territory. Give up the STOLEN land. That is the only hope. There is NO OTHER way. There is NO military solution. Settle down Kilroy... Just who was it stolen from?? Most of the West Bank isn't inhabited even now... So you can't "steal" land from someone who hasn't been living there in the first place, and never have (except maybe some shepherd in a tent).... Besides, the West Bank was abandoned by Jordan in 1989 when they gave up all claim to it, or the necessity of returning it as a condition of fulfilling Resolution 242. Jordan gave up all claim to it in 1989, remember?? And from reviewing the 1994 peace treaty between Jordan and Israel, there is NO specific discussion about the ownership of the West Bank, or discussion of Jordan having "deeded" it to the establishment of a Palestinian state... All there is a small "blurb" about permanent status discussions for those territories occupied by Israel in 1967. israel-mfa.gov.il It doesn't say that Israel can't annex it if permanent status talks don't occur (which would be unlikely).. Nor does it say that all territories have to be used to form a Palestinian state.. So obviously Jordan, according to the peace treaty, doesn't consider Israel's taking possession of 5% of that territory as "stealing"... So SFD... to "steal" something, you have to have a owner... And Arafat no more "owns" the uninhabited portions of the West Bank than does Jordan... And nothing in the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty bequeathed "ownership" of the West Bank to Arafat or any other Palestinian group. The permanent status is to arise from negotiations.. And if Arafat is going to "walk out" on those negotiations because he finds something "unacceptable", then he deserves to have "his" people relegated to the urban areas of the West Bank... Hawk

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