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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6625)	4/1/2004 11:12:27 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

initiate a NATO led force to replace the Israelis in the West Bank and Gaza I think it could work, but it would work better with the wider cooperation of the U.N. NATO is still seen as too western and too christian for widespread muslim support. A joint NATO/UN task force could really make the plan fly. The other key is that all of those who remain in the West Bank and Gaza become citizens of the new state. That would eliminate the need to have unnecessary confrontations over settlements.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6625)	4/1/2004 11:19:46 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

And that would be to initiate a NATO led force to replace the Israelis in the West Bank and Gaza and prepare that terroritory for some form of statehood. I wouldn't be happy about taking on such a responsibility, but would certainly go far towards diffusing the prevalent belief that the US is anti-muslim. So soldiers from the US and UK and perhaps other NATO members would be killing Palestinians instead of Israelis, and the American and British (and maybe other European) soldiers would be dying instead of Israelis. I don't think there is that much in it for us. The Muslim Arabs would see the US as enforcing an occupation of Arab/Muslim land, and would see us killing Arabs. I don't think it would get them to like us better. I also don't think Israel would want to go along with it. They would be worried that the Europeans and eventually even the Americans would want to pull out once casualties got to high. They would figure we would pass off sovereignty to the Palestinians but perhaps to a Palestinian terrorist state. Also and perhaps most importantly the exact boundaries of the Palestinian state still haven't been negotiated so we don't know what territory the NATO force would be occupying. Tim

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6625)	4/2/2004 12:56:22 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

And that would be to initiate a NATO led force to replace the Israelis in the West Bank and Gaza and prepare that terroritory for some form of statehood. Feeling masochistic, Hawk? What happens when NATO forces are in Gaza, the Gazans like them no better than they do the Israelis, and Hamas blows up an Israeli bus? You take it from there.