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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (17104)	5/9/2003 4:54:05 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

<font color=blue> You wrote:"Any word on compensation to the Palestinians for the invasion and land confiscations?"<font color=black> If there is going to be peace, then there has to be a lot on the table including compensation to Israel for the Five times that the combined Arab states attacked Israel. Israel won all rights to the West Bank and Gaza. But, as has been shown in the past, Israel has returned huge amounts of land back to the Arabs, as a result of peace treaties. <font color=blue>"MYTH : "Israel viewed the territories it captured as conquered lands that were now part of Israel and had no intention of negotiating over their return."<font color=black> FACT : By the end of the war, Israel had captured enough territory to more than triple the size of the area it controlled, from 8,000 to 26,000 square miles. The victory enabled Israel to unify Jerusalem. Israeli forces had also captured the Sinai, the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Israel's leaders fully expected to negotiate a peace agreement with their neighbors that would involve some territorial compromise. Almost immediately after the war, Israel's leaders expressed their willingness to negotiate a return of at least some of the territories. Israel subsequently returned all of the Sinai to Egypt, territory claimed by Jordan was returned to the Hashemite Kingdom, and nearly all of the Gaza Strip and more than 40 percent of the West Bank was given to the Palestinians to establish the Palestinian Authority. To date, approximately 93 percent of the territories won in the defensive war have been given by Israel to its Arab neighbors as a result of negotiations. This demonstrates Israel's willingness to trade land for peace." <font color=gray>http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/myths/mf6.html#g<font color=black>

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (17104)	5/9/2003 5:00:34 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

Israel tells peace activists to get out of the way so it can slaughter Palestinians unimpeded: Gaza visitors must sign waiver in case army shoots them by Chris McGreal The Israeli military yesterday began obliging foreigners entering the Gaza Strip to sign waivers absolving the army from responsibility if it shoots them. Visitors must also declare that they are not peace activists. [continued ...] guardian.co.uk