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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (99794)	6/1/2003 6:10:34 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine, as far as reading history books you accept those with a pro Israel spin, I look to people like Herbert Pundik who writes and speaks on the problem and possible solutions. Nadine, does Israel, itself, recognize any borders? If so what are they? The Green Line(pre-1967 borders)? The borders of the Palestinian map I posted a while back? Here is a source you might want to consult. counterpunch.org "...Once again, an Israeli prime minister has skewed the original intent of Resolution 242 to suit Israel's interests, and an uninformed and uninterested American president has willingly followed along. The real import of the resolution has long since been discarded and forgotten. If mentioned at all, the idea of land-for-peace now tends, in political discourse throughout the U.S., to be treated as a quaint anachronism, as when many commentators dismissed the significance of the recent Arab peace proposal based on Resolution 242 and land-for-peace. Only historians and Palestinians truly remember the significance of the 35-year-old resolution. We hear much these days about how Israelis have lost trust in the Palestinians since the beginning of the intifada in September 2000. This loss of trust is undeniable, but in the usual one-sided, Israel-focused approach of U.S. media commentators and policymakers, the fact that this sense of betrayal goes both ways has been almost totally ignored. Palestinians have also experienced a betrayal--not only a loss of trust in Israel because it has done nothing, despite seven years of a so-called peace process, to end decades of settlement building, land confiscation, checkpoints, and house demolitions, but more significantly a loss of trust in the United States as an honest and reliable mediator prepared to address the concerns of both Israelis and Palestinians equally and prepared to carry through with long-standing diplomatic obligations. The land-for-peace betrayal stands as a shameful example of diplomatic double-dealing and is the primary reason for the perpetuation of the tragic conflict between Israelis and Palestinians."