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To: tejek who wrote (2495)	1/22/2004 1:16:56 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 7936

There is no option but to give the Palestinians their freedom. No one can control a group of people and succeed long term. Unfortunately that is not true, but more importantly it isn't the same thing as saying Israel can not win. Israel's goal isn't to subjugate the Palestinians. Israel's overall goal is to live in peace and to be secure. Its more specific goals include having defensible borders and possibly things like maintaining control of Jerusalem. Israel and the Palestinians both win if they can behave peacefully towards each other and a reasonable compromise can be reached. They both lose if the conflict continues. One side loses if the settlement is almost completely tilted towards the other side (but in that case there is unlikely to be an agreement), or if is forcibly crushed by the other side (which isn't likely to happen to either side but is esp. not likely to happen to Israel). One side winning and the other losing isn't particularly likely in my opinion. The most likely results are lose/lose (the conflict continues) or win/win (a decent agreement that both sides can live with), that's why I say that Israel will only lose in the sense that both sides lose by this conflict. Tim