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To: StormRider who wrote (3107)	7/1/2003 5:09:18 PM
From: StormRider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

STOP WINKS, NODS ON SETTLEMENTS G. Jefferson Price III, Sun Spot, 6/29/03 sunspot.net If the United States were as adamant about pressuring Israel to get rid of its settlements in the West Bank and Gaza as it has been on the Palestinians to get rid of Yasser Arafat, the prospects for peace would be a lot better these days. The settlements -- many of which are huge towns occupied by some 200,000 Israelis in the West Bank and Gaza -- are as great an impediment to peace as Arafat is. Taking a genuine, forceful stand against them would not reflect a new policy of the United States. Every U.S. administration since that of Lyndon Johnson, who was president when Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 war, has made it clear that the United States opposes Israeli settlements in what it considers occupied territory. And every Israeli government since that of Levi Eshkol, who was prime minister in 1967, to the present government of Ariel Sharon -- without exception -- has built Jewish or expanded settlements in the occupied territories. The construction of these settlements, for a variety of stated reasons -- from security to biblical right -- has been carried out in defiance of the will of most states that are friendly to Israel and in defiance of the purported will of its greatest economic and military benefactor, the United States. Not a single American president has had the temerity to carry through on a threat to cut off money to the Israeli government for as long as Israel continues the settlement of what most of the world views as captured Arab land. While successive Israeli governments have received tens upon tens of billions of dollars in economic and military aid, they have persisted in defying the U.S. policy...

To: StormRider who wrote (3107)	7/1/2003 7:00:00 PM
From: sammy levy	Respond to of 6945

>>>Israel's Shin Bet security agency has held Palestinian prisoners incommunicado for weeks at a time at a secret detention center, The Associated Press has learned. Prisoners say they are blindfolded and kept in black, windowless cells. When they ask where they are, they are told: ``On the moon.'' <<< Who said Israelis don't have sense of humor?

To: StormRider who wrote (3107)	7/2/2003 8:55:07 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

The truth about the heart of Isra'El leaks out...slowly, too slowly. Thanks for the two great stories SR. Shtetlments are present-day lebensraum! len