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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (6689)	4/3/2002 9:27:35 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

it's cheaper than the foreign aid and weapons and wars we have to fight to prop the Israelis up! I still think the cheapest way would simply be to subsidize the Palestinians in situ. Not the government, the individual households. Give them illusory "jobs" and pay them. I don't think it would be as expensive as it sounds. For one thing, there really aren't all that many of them, if you count households, not individuals. Dollars go a long way over there. Wars are very expensive, especially wars in the middle east. A middle east war pushes oil prices up drastically. I wonder what a 6-month war would cost in increased energy spending alone. For that matter, I wonder how much money we've sent to Israel, per capita, in the last 20 years. Put the kids in school, put the adults to paid work, and it will be a whole lot harder to whip up violence. And in a few years, once they're addicted to relative prosperity, you can threaten to withdraw the subsidies if the leaders don't behave.