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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6658)	4/2/2004 3:54:16 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 15987

But I find it very hard to see where they could honestly try and block an international settlement in Palestine, especially since I seem to recall that this is something they have advocated from time to time. Say what??!! 'Scuse me??!! Chirac & co have tried very hard to muscle into an international settlement from time to time, to show their own importance and go to bat for their good buddies the Palestinians. Their bread is buttered by keeping their anti-American, and thus, anti-Israel, credits in good order with the Arabs. When it comes to a choice between posing as a mediator and really getting concessions, posing wins hands down every time in this game. You think they would spend one once of political capital in the interest of really obtaining a settlement? Hoo-ha. They have no more interest in it than the Arab heads of state. Because Arafat will find himself required to abide by a NATO imposed solution Required? By whose army? Arafat has never abided by any settlement in his entire life. Arafat will continue to fund umpteen "deniable" gangs of Al Aqsa, Tanzim, and some new militias he's only just thought of to undermine everything. And you think the Euros will call him on it? Can I interest you in the Brooklyn Bridge? I hear it's for sale. So... it's the same way in most parts of Iraq and Afghanistan. But I'm talking about putting several divisions of NATO troops into those territories (possibly up to 100,000 plus troops).. That should be more than enough to disarm these gangs. Not without a war of conquest in hostile urban territory. You think NATO has the stomach for that? Why? What's in it for them? Israel doesn't want to do it and they would derive immediate benefit = no more suicide bombers. The entire idea is a non-starter, if not frankly insane.

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