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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (8)	4/18/2003 7:58:57 PM
From: Enigma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (8)	4/18/2003 8:52:29 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 22250

An excellent proposal with the exception of the exclusion of France. The threat of one veto in thirty years in the Security Council is not enough to break to break a tried and proven alliance of over 200 years. In addition, French history and culture helped shape Western/Christian Civilization. To destroy our alliance with France would be like destroying a cornerstone of our own culture and civilization. The rest of your proposal is fair and just solution for both Israel and the Palestinians and the internationalization of Jerusalem is realistic and shows sensitivity for all the religions which have many holy sites in that city. The Jews, Moslems and Christians would all have full access to their holy sites and the international community would guarantee the peace of the city. Again, an excellent proposal! (It seems that this is the first time we agree on a major topic. Maybe there is also hope for the Palestinians and Israelis.) I think your proposal is worth repeating: "How about NATO (with France excluded) or a group of nations (US, UK, Canada, Australia, eastern Europeans who want in) who would ACTUALLY be willing to enforce this agreement if push came shove dictated this: Israel pulls back to its 1967 borders. The Coalition guarantees it against attack by its Arab/Muslim neighbor. Any country violating this deals with the Coalition forces. The gov't will be removed, replaced, and the leadership subject to war crimes trials conducted by the Coalition. The Palestinians get a state. All countries subject to the agreement (Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi, Syria, Lebanon, ..) agree not to allow terrorist activities against Israel to operate from their territory. If they do not stop them, the Coalition steps in. Israel is subject to the same conditions: it must not allow Israelis to carry out terrorist activities against other countries in the agreement. Jerusalem becomes an international city protected by the coalition. It has an elected democratic gov't, but it must allow all persons of any religion in and must allow access to religious shrines."