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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (100644)	6/8/2003 1:52:42 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

Imagine if China occupied Alaska, and proclaimed, "An land without (hardly any) people, for a people without (enough) land." First came the tanks and helicopters. Then a steady stream of Chinese settlers, who founded towns surrounding all the American and Native towns. The Chinese took control of all the valuable natural resources, the oil and zinc and timber. They set up a government, where schools for Chinese kids got 5 times as much money as schools for Americans, and hospitals for Chinese got 10 times as much money as hospitals for Americans. They built a network of new roads, connecting all the new Chinese settlements, but Americans couldn't use them. We were restricted to the old, poorly maintained roads, where innumerable checkpoints separated my home from the grocery store, work, anywhere else I needed to go. Any protests against the Chinese were either ignored, or violently suppressed. American kids who threw stones at Chinese tanks, were routinely killed by machine-gun fire. I'd become a terrorist. I'd do anything, anything at all, to get my land back. If I had WMD, I'd use them. As many as I had. Even at the risk of my life. And I wouldn't even respond to any Chinese offer to negotiate, if they wouldn't stop the growth of settlements. That's exactly the way the Palestinians feel. And it is only a matter of time, before Hamas does have WMD. Israel needs to make peace , or, in the words of Kant: ...as otherwise no peace could be concluded and the hostilities would degenerate into a war of extermination (bellum internecinum).