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To: KyrosL who wrote (107723)7/24/2003 1:23:38 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
re: This is wonderful news

It's not really news. Most of the settlers live in big towns just over the Green Line, came there for bigger houses for less money, and have the same demographics and political opinions as other Israelis. The minority of the settlers, who live in the small religious-Zionist communities and came for ideological reasons, are going to be harder to convince. But that can be done.

The real difficulty is the send half of the clause: they would leave for a Peace Settlement. It's getting the Palestinians to agree to a peace settlement. Palestinian leadership is now divided between the Arafat-Al Aqsa camp, the Abu Mazen-PA camp, and the Hamas-Islamic Jihad camp. Two out of three want no part of a two state solution, except as a temporary stage on the way to destroying Israel.