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To: Ilaine who wrote (102081)	6/19/2003 2:46:14 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

If Israel doesn't like it, the answer is easy. Don't cash the checks. We also pay the lion's share of UNWRA's expenses, and subsidize the PA as well, don't forget. Not to mention the very hefty sums that we are paying Egypt and Jordan.

To: Ilaine who wrote (102081)	6/19/2003 2:50:56 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

>>You keep speaking as if only Israel would be more forthcoming and take the "moral high ground", then the Palestinians would meet them half way.<< No, ma'am. I don't believe that there is an identifiable political entity known as "the Palestinians." I don't believe that Hamas speaks for the majority of Palestinians. I may be wrong, here, but human nature being what it is, most people just want to get on with their lives and are motivated into violence only in extremis. If the Palestinians had a democracy, this might matter. They don't. Arafat and Hamas rule the roost and make the policies. I surely do not need to point out that this situation arose precisely because of the last attempt to reach a compromise solution? Nor that trying to reach half-way compromises with someone who is committed to killing you is a little risky, to say the least? Sorry if you're tired of the conflict. Try paying no attention to it. Both the Israelis and Palestinians would be far better off if outsiders left them to their own devices.