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To: TimF who wrote (168180)	4/21/2003 4:42:36 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574094

That is partly true. However, another reason Israel does not get strongly pressured is because we stand behind them. I am not suggesting we end our alliance with them but I think we need to take a more equitable stand between the two parties. I don't think we should always and totally lean towards Israel but - 1 - Israel is by far the most free and democratic country in the region. Even if you include what happens in the sort of war between the Israelis and the Palestinians, Israel is still less repressive then the other regimes in the area. When people caused problems for the leaders of Iraq, Syria, even Jordan and Turkey and Egypt (which aren't as bad as Iraq and Syria) they where put down harshly. Sometimes those people where Palestinians. And the Arabs wouldn't bother aiming carefully at a car or a house they would just level the whole town or drop poison gas. The point above as well pts. 2 and 3 are valid. The problem is that they continually are used to reinforce the status quo. Israel is one small country in a much larger region. To stick firmly by its side because it most resembles us may make sense if we didn't care what happens to the region but after spending billions to invade Iraq, I think its apparent that we are not indifferent to the ME and its future. If the Palestinians were fighting just a guerilla war (they don't have the power for a conventional war) and not a guerilla and terrorist war, if their institutions where more democratic, and if they where not so frequently anti-US they probably would get more equal treatment from the US. How can you expect anyone in Palestine to be pro US when we so firmly support their enemy and master? How can the Palestinians inflict much damage against the Israelis with guns and explosives and rocks? Guns, RPGs, grenades, bombs and such are the mainstays of a guerilla war. They couldn't win but they can't win with their current tactics either. The Palestinians are not going to defeat Israel by use of raw power. Again, the damage they inflict is the equivalent of a kid with a slingshot. ted