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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (1764)	6/10/2001 12:32:19 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Arab Bluster, or an attempt to restore Palestinian "credibility"?? thisislondon.com Saudi Crown Prince warns of Middle East war Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah has warned of the prospect of a Middle East war, accusing Israel of raising Middle East bloodshed to "unacceptable" levels. Abdullah told German magazine Der Spiegel that the region is "sitting on a powder keg" that could "explode at any time". He added that such a war "would not only affect Israelis and Arabs but many parts of the world" but did not elaborate any further. Abdullah, who ended a three-day official visit to Germany on Friday, blamed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for eight months of violence that has left 484 Palestinians and 108 Israelis dead. He told the magazine: "The bloodshed is reaching levels we can no longer accept. The Israeli war machine takes aim daily at unarmed people who are at the most throwing stones." Abdullah said Palestinian attacks against Israelis were "a sign of desperation and frustration", and that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat could only stop his people's revolt if Israel ends the "cancerous growth of settlements in Palestinian areas". Abdullah, who met Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder during his stay in Berlin, encouraged the European Union to mediate in the Middle East and said Germany should not be restrained by historic traumas. "The crimes of the Nazis against the Jews must not serve as an excuse for accepting crimes against the Palestinians," he told the magazine. *************** And just why is it that over 1 million Arabs can live peacefully in Israel, but the Palestinians won't permit some 200,000 Jews to live on the West Bank?? What if Israel started claiming that their Arab population was a "cancer" within the Jewish state? Kinda amusing how these jokers use their manipulative rhetoric to make one side look worse than the other. In my opinion, the end goal should all be about stopping the violence on both sides, creating a political atmosphere conducive to calm negotiations and arbitration, and then they can discuss the status of these settlements as well as how to insure Israeli security. Hawk