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To: elpolvo who wrote (5513)	4/7/2002 11:44:30 AM
From: Frederick Smart	Respond to of 6089

Well.... >>A view on the End of the Palestine-Israel Conflict: (a letter from john) Frank & Barbara,>> ...that's certainly ONE (1) way of looking at it. And an outbreak of truth and love through the conduit of freedom would accomplish the same thing. Thanks for sharing elpolvo! 119293!!

To: elpolvo who wrote (5513)	4/8/2002 6:06:16 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

World Peace is achievable. therockalltimes.co.uk Angola peace treaty 'blueprint for all world conflicts' UN's radical campaign to promote global harmony by Kieren McCarthy The Angolan peace treaty signed last Thursday will not only bring about the end of 26 years of conflict in the African country but act as the blueprint for a radical new campaign to end other world conflicts, the UN has announced today. With violence and tensions escalating in the Middle East and Asia, the Angola ceasefire came as a breath of fresh air to the world and now top officials are looking at the lessons that can be learnt. As such, in a report due out Friday, the UN is to recommend sanctions to be imposed on any country that supports another's violent aims and that unless peace talks in each area prove successful, one of the two leaders in each conflict is to be assassinated by an international team of conflict assessment officers. The radical plan is seen as the only way to prevent recent sabre-rattling by governments all over the globe from turning into open conflict. The Angola process, in which the Unita rebel group has signed a deal with the government where all fighters will form one army, ended a civil war that has raged since the country gained its independence in 1975. However, it is unlikely that the deal would have been signed were it not for the death of the leader of Unita, Jonas Savimbi, in February of this year. Despite four attempts to broker peace in the conflict's 26 years, no agreement was made and Savimbi's death removed a vital stopping-block. This "stopping-block theory" will now be applied to every world conflict by the UN in a bid to move talks forward. Angola's ability to maintain a war was also initially paid for by South Africa and the US on one side and Russia and Cuba on the other. Under the new rules, any country caught supporting another country's war effort will be harshly dealt with. "This is the only way forward and we have wide international support for this fair and balanced process," the head of the UN Tofu Hangman told reporters. "The first recommendations will be put forward within a fortnight." However, while Hangman refused to comment on what the recommendations would suggest, a leaked copy of the report has created a diplomatic storm. An extract, printed in the New York Times has had the White House up in arms. It reads: "While we must ensure that peace is given every chance before carrying out any enforced stopping-block termination, it is the opinion of this committee that several individuals have already proven their abject refusal to follow international law and so we can assume their position is entrenched. "For this reason, our first recommendation is the termination of President Dubya of the United States. According to our estimates, and with the appropriate sanctions on the country, this will see over 60 per cent of the world's conflicts brought to a premature end. "While some have argued for the same approach to be applied to Prime Minister Sharon of Israel, we believe that the removal of Dubya will make termination unnecessary. "We have rejected complaints against Prime Minister Blair of Great Britain from Northern Ireland and Iraq as further investigation revealed he was all bark and no bite and possesses no real threat without the support of the United States. However, with respect to Northern Ireland we recommended the immediate incarceration of the Reverend Ian Paisley for everybody's sakes. "The Colombian situation will be eased without United States support and we are confident peace can be brokered. The India/Pakistan dispute can be solved, we believe, by simply ignoring the boundaries drawn up by the British in the 40s and encouraging diplomatic discussions of new boundaries. Any resulting argument is be settled by a giant game of Kabbadi. "Terrorist leader Osama bin Laden is to face trial for his masterminding of an attack in the United States under a new change in the law which will see people held responsible for the deaths of people outside their own country. By the same token, Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger will be expected to stand trial. "This leaves a number of conflicts including Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Zimbabwe and Chechnya which we will discuss at our next meeting in June." This isn't satire, is it? I mean, it could work, and what a lot of lives would be saved.