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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (86828)	3/27/2003 1:41:28 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

re "road map": <behaving like a state instead of a gang of thugs> George Washington led a "gang of thugs", from King George's viewpoint. They couldn't even afford fancy matching uniforms, so they were "unlawful combatants". Sharon led a "gang of thugs", from the viewpoint of the British trying to rule the Mandate. Lots of respected statesmen used to be thugs, till they won their wars. <The proposed wall includes about 3000 more Arabs> That's just for the first section of the Wall, the part that runs closest to the 1967 frontiers, right? The East Wall runs (in part) from Mehola to Maale Adummim, including the whole Jordan Valley. Looks to me like all of Jericho ends up on the Israeli side (25,000 population, with adjacent refugee camps). For the entire Wall, total 50,000 is my guess. <over one million Arab citizens of Israel and nobody is talking about moving them> Nobody? Haven't some of the Orthodox party leaders proposed solving problems by moving a lot of Arabs? I'm quibbling; you're right, this is a fringe position. But, once the Wall is up, it will be a solution that makes sense. The Wall doesn't really work, unless all the Arabs are on the other side. Leaving a million Arabs on the "wrong" side, is like building a prison and not putting the criminals in it. So, as the Wall is completed, any hostile towns where terrorists originate from, will end up being heavily garrisoned by the Army. And the Army will inevitably do things, to suppress suicide bombers, that result in dead Palestinan civilians regularly (along with a quota of dead terrorists and dead Israeli soldiers). If the Wall can't be crossed by terrorists, then there will be less need to garrison Palestinian areas on the far side, and more need to garrison towns on the Israeli side. So, life will be a lot easier for Palestinians, if they move to "their own" side. And Israelis will feel safer. This process will be systematically encouraged (not just by army practices, but by land use decisions, water allocation, a hundred bureaucratic methods); and it will also be officially denied, so as not to create a PR problem for the Americans.