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To: TimF who wrote (143300)	3/15/2002 1:14:52 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576953

Through the peace process, Israel so tried to protect itself, it ended up emasculating the new Palestinian state enough so that it couldn't function and succeed. The strength that Israel has allowed the PLO has been used against it. Tim, if you read the article on the Oslo peace process, in fact they state that the PLO negotiators agreed to provisions which benefitted Israel significantly and helped restrict the movement of the Palestinians. In fact it sounds like what happened is opposite to what you suggest. I still contend if Israel wants out of this mess, it needs to commit the resources to help Palestine become a success economically. I hope that this is not necessary to end the violence because Israel won't do that why the violence continues. If your talkingabout money Israel really can't help. They depend on aid from the US, so if Israel aided the Palestinains it would really be US aid. Arafat gets a lot of money from European countries and from Saudi, but I think a lot of it winds up lining his pockets or going to his cronies or to buy weapons to use against Israel. Unfortunately, I don't think the violence will end until Palestine has a stable, job producing economy. I am sure they don't want to hear that argument but I think its the only one that will succeed. Working people don't have time to riot and commit terrorist acts. Besides, they are committed to the status quo. Foreign aid isn't very good at creating jobs. That's not true........if used wisely, foreign aid can speed up the recovery of an economy/economies..........look at the Marshall Plan. NBC News is reporting tonite that there were Israelis demonstrating today against Israel's hard line. At about the same time there was another demonstration, about twice as large calling for a harder line (they wanted things like expelling the Palestinians from the West Bank) It didn't get reported much in the US for some reason. There is links and posted articles about it on the Foreign Affairs Discussion Group thread, but its a big thread and I don't currently have a link to give you. Simply pointing out that Israelis are in lock step agreement over Sharon's aggressive policy or that the left has disappeared as you suggested earlier. ted