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To: michael97123 who wrote (20612)	12/20/2003 12:00:51 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793597

The Iraqi campaign certainly was very successful. At this time the future depends on the Iraqis themselves - they need enough people willing to stand up and fight for their country. This way they'll be able to build a free country, where individual rights would be protected - and their future would be bright. Otherwise, it is a matter of time until they descend back again into some sort of craziness. As far as the Israeli - Palestinian "conflict" is concerned, I think that its main cause remains the fact that Palestinians are still not willing to coexist with Israel. They are supported in this madness by other Arab countries. The Euros and the assorted "evenhanded's" also indirectly help prevent peace by granting the Pals the "moral equivalency" status, by persisting in remaining (deliberately?) blind to the fact that their protégés' goal is the destruction of Israel. Part of the problem seems to be religious in nature: Apparently, too many Muslims cannot accept what they see as an insulting (to them and to God) presence of a Jewish state in what they think of as Dar-al-Islam. Until there is a proper combination of in- and disincentives - religious, political, etc. - to change this thinking, the so called Israeli-Palestinian conflict has no chance of ever getting resolved. Individual players, like Sharon, Arafat, etc. are important, but I think that what they could do is very limited anyway.