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To: Carolyn who wrote (13396)	4/8/2002 4:28:31 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

Re: Like kids in a sandbox - leave them alone to fight it out while we all stand back. Of course that is not going to happen. Huh?! Wait a sec... This IS gonna happen as soon as the Pacific trade outshines the Transatlantic one! At that point, Europe --and her Israeli satellite-- will become less and less relevant --economically speaking, that is. In the same line of thought, I've read numerous posts and press articles speculating over the demise of oil --what's gonna happen when the last drop of oil gets squeezed out of Saudi Arabia.... what if solar/alternative energy replaces oil in the industrialized countries, etc. Such wishful speculating is laughable... and those daydreamers who long for a world "beyond oil" had better take a closer look at the ME crisis: THERE AIN'T NO OIL IN PALESTINE/ISRAEL... Most of the Arab/Muslim countries don't have major oil resources: Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Pakistan, Malaysia. So, even if the Arab world were deprived of oil, it STILL would be a relevant, important geopolitical actor to reckon with --if only because of its buoyant demographics (1+ billion Muslims worldwide). As for the ME crisis proper, as I pointed out previously, the crux of that seemingly unsolvable conflict doesn't lie in oil riches, or gold deposits, or diamonds, or a key financial market (like Hong Kong), or a world-class high-tech hub (like Taiwan)... What the Jews and the Muslims (and the Christians) are fighting for is just a SYMBOL: a millienia-old city, Jerusalem, whose only value beside its religious one lies in the worship tourism/pilgrim business... Yasser Arafat didn't accept the 2000 Camp David offer because that would have amounted to the sellout of Jerusalem to the Jews --Arafat would likely have been killed for such a betrayal. Israelis keep bragging about their offering 99.99% of all claimed territories to the Palestinians?? Ok, I've got a better proposal to settle the whole issue: let's forget about these 99.99% of territories to be retroceded to the Palestinians --I say: YOU JEWS CAN KEEP THE WHOLE OF THEM BUT, IN EXCHANGE FOR SUCH A GRACIOUS RELINQUISHMENT OF A PALESTINIAN COUNTRY, YOU MUST GIVE UP ON THAT REMAINING 0.01%, NAMELY, EAST JERUSALEM. Fair enough? LOL... I bet you such a wild, generous offer is even WORSE than the current one because the Jews know that, out of a single, tiny square foot of Jerusalem, the Arabs will be able to turn the city into an ARAB megalopolis in less than 20 years --by extending its borders, by endowing it with gorgeous Islamic universities, institutions, pilgrim resorts, mosques, and whatnot.... Gus