To: PartyTime who wrote (764 ) 3/13/2004 1:38:19 AM From: Lazarus_Long Read Replies (1) | Respond to The alternative is that the problems in the region will never get solved unless Israel renounces its keeping nuclear weapons. I should have included in my earlier post the provision that the Arab nations must also accept Israel's right to exist. Don't forget that money had a role in an earlier MidEast peace agreement. the UN establishing an international campus and a significant-sized peacekeeping training base would keep a large inventory of military weaponry on site. But campus/base would exist in parallel with an international school of diplomacy that would draw both Israeli and Arab scholars. The emphasis of the UN presence would be more diplomatic than military. And, who knows, maybe there's some value to relocating the United Nations to Jeruselem? [I mean, come on, Lazarus, if you're not willing to try something new then expect the same maddness.] Israel knows its military won't work because it hasn't. Well, Jeruselem could be similarly organized and answer to the UN, much as Washington answers to Congress.
