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To: Ilaine who wrote (9395)	9/15/2001 11:47:01 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

>>We can't give them what they want. I disagree. If we guarantee Israel's security, we can demand that Israel withdraw completely from the West Bank -- ours and the UN's official position. That's all the PA wants. Add generous economic incentives to both sides provided by the West (not just us) -- that covers the "compensation" part for those Palestinians displaced from Israel during the war of '48. Add a permanent US/UN military presence (or until both sides agree it's not needed). And you have a solution acceptable to the vast majority of Palestinians and Arabs. Of course there is the small minority that will never be satisfied, but they will no longer enjoy broad popular support, a death knell for any guerrilla movement. I see a solution whose costs (especially in human lives) are far far less than what awaits us. Again, I repeat: Clinton was very very close to a solution. He didn't have the political capital to add American money and American security guarantees. Sept 11 changed the picture completely: now those economic costs and security guarantees are trivial compared to what we will probably spend and suffer in the just declared war.