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To: KLP who wrote (99839)	6/2/2003 1:19:15 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<What are your suggestions for the situation?> Message 18552556 The main reasons I am critical of the current "road map", is that I don't think anybody is serious about it: 1. Bush isn't serious about using American leverage to force the Israelis to make concessions, or even to make Sharon re-offer what was offered at Taba. 2. Sharon isn't serious about allowing a viable Palestinian State. No matter what he says, as long as the colonization policy continues, he's not serious about peace. 3. Many, if not all, the main Palestinian groups, are not serious about ever living in peace with Israel. The "right of return" equals a call for the end of the Jewish State, and nobody (Arafat, Abbas, much less Hamas or the other Rejectionist groups) has shown an ability to give up that demand. 4. The road map has no mechanism for disarming Hamas. 5. It is politically impossible for Sharon to dismantle the settlements (even if he wanted to), and 6. it is politically impossible for Bush to defeat the Israel Lobby (even if he wanted to). I think this whole "road map" is just so Bush and Blair can say "we tried". Everyone needs to suffer a lot more, before they will be willing to make the concessions necessary for peace. By "a lot more", I mean the present situation will continue, until Hamas gets and uses WMD, and Israel retaliates in kind. This will happen, probably years, perhaps decades, from now.