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To: The Philosopher who wrote (4525)	2/16/2003 6:17:25 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

I actually find I'm in agreement somewhat... in principle. However, the horse is out of the barn with Israel. The very creation of Israel in another people's territory was driven from guilt about the mistreatment of Jewry. The Palestinians were pawns in a larger game and I'm sad to say, the US was party to them being sold out. Later, we let Israel violate the Non-proliferation Treaty when they got the load of U235/U238 headed for France for reprocessing and had it illegally delivered to Israel. We should have demanded they return it before they built bombs. We didn't. We also let them keep land that belonged to Egypt and they are still in violation of THAT order. Many of our problems in the Mid-East stem from our archaic Israel policies and those with other principalities in the area. It could reasonably be argued that, at the time, we had bigger worries. Since the UN is the composite of the personalities of its premier members, it doesn't surprise me that when those members act in an immoral and inconsistent manner, that this behavior taints the larger organization. When the UN has managed to act correctly, it has worked reasonably well. But, the process is flawed. One needs to look no further than to see who is up for chairing the Human Rights Commission right now! (Libya)