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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (22648)	3/30/2002 10:40:07 AM
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<But frankly the two options you describe are respectively "throw the Israeli to the sea" (your USA/Canada option), or evict the Palestinians (your Saudi Arabia option).> No, they aren't. My utopian idea is the voluntary decision of one or both people to leave, so the element of force is absent. But this would require a rationality or a spiritual leadership by a new Gandhi (or Moses...) which are absent currently. Let's say, military budgets will be increased by $100 billion annually as a result of 9-11. There are 6 million Israelis and 2 million Palestinians. If the budgets weren't used for the latest weapon technology but for the relocation the >$10,000/capita would be sufficient to set up a new provisional infrastructure for all of them at the new place in the first year. In Afghanistan $4 billion for 3x as many people must suffice. Ok, that's just dreaming. But one point is that the spiral of violence in Israel isn't as hopelessly inevitable as it sometimes seems.

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