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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (25516)	4/16/2002 5:34:07 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Perhaps you missed the point about Israel as an occupying military force <"This analogy, of course, is far from exact. Egypt was acting against a threat in its sovereign territory, instead of "occupied territories,"> If Egypt was occupying Israel and if Israelis were being crushed day after day, and year after year by an Egyptian army paid for by US taxpayers, then you would have a point. But such as it is, there is no comparison worth making between Egypt dealing harshly with internal radical extremists and Israelis desire to crush the will of the people in the occupied territories.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (25516)	4/16/2002 5:44:16 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

UPI "Inside" report Monday's trip of Secretary of State Colin Powell to Beirut and Damascus was far from certain last week, when all the signs were that a full-scale war was close to breaking out on Israel's northern frontier -- despite the little-reported warning phone call from U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to Syrian President Bashar Assad. The Powell trip looked even less likely when State Department aides reported who was preceding Powell to the Syrian capital, Damascus -- Iraq's deputy president, Taha Yassir Ramadan, and Iranian Foreign Minister Kemal Kharazi. Then came the surprise. Iran's Kharazi called on the Hezbollah guerillas, who depend on Iran for arms and funds, to stop the rocket bombardment and back off, citing the need "to avoid giving Israel a pretext for widening the circle of its war." Who gets the credit? Step forward Russian President Vladimir Putin, who sent personal "cool it" messages to Syria's President Assad and Iran's President Mohammed Khatami -- piling up more personal brownie points with U.S. President George Bush ahead of their summit in Moscow next month. upi.com

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (25516)	4/16/2002 9:30:46 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

missed the story of how the Egyptians solved their Islamic radicals problem: Touche' Nadine... Or how the Syrians crushed their own extremist Sunni rebellion, killing 20,000 people and turning their town into a parking lot. But no... GST is only concerned with how Israel deals with these extremist elements (who's idea of dealing with Israelis and Americans lacks any civilized restraints and is funded by drug money)... But hey... Maybe we should just give them all a hug.. Hawk