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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (1329)	5/23/2001 12:19:34 AM
From: CVJ	Respond to of 23908

Sounds like someone spiked the maple syrup. Maybe a couple more conservative Dems will switch to Repubs and make things right again?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (1329)	5/23/2001 6:16:11 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Isn't Jeffords Jewish? Anyway.... Sharon calls ceasefire but says Israeli settlements will continue By Chris Marsden 23 May 2001 wsws.org Excerpt: The New York Times and Britain's Guardian newspapers both expressed fears that Israel's survival was in question should Sharon be allowed to continue his undeclared war against the Palestinians. America's "paper of record" warned on May 19, "Whatever illusions the Bush administration may entertain about a more detached American role in the Middle East should be erased by the rapidly escalating violence in the region... No president can afford to let the Middle East descend into turmoil. Protecting the welfare of Israel has been a central American commitment since the Jewish state was founded during the Truman administration. All presidents since then have tried to overcome the hostilities in the region, well aware that turbulence and military conflict in and around Israel can ripple through the region, creating instability, slowing economic progress and threatening to disrupt the flow of oil to the West. Mr. Bush must do no less." The Guardian, in a May 21 editorial generally sympathetic to the Zionist state, nevertheless wrote: "We are forced to confront some uncomfortable truths about how the dream of a sanctuary for the Jewish people in the very land in which their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped has become poisoned. The establishment of this sanctuary has been bought at a very high cost in human rights and human lives. It must be apparent that the international community cannot support this cost indefinitely." Having already faced criticism from the European powers and Russia for abandoning efforts to reach a negotiated settlement, the fear of losing US backing also prompted sections of the Israeli ruling elite to call for Sharon to be reined in. [...]