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To: TimF who wrote (6631)	4/1/2004 1:57:10 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15987

What land would they occupy, what land would the Palestinians get and what land would the Israelis get? As a beginning, the 95% that the original Israeli-Palestinian peace accord specified during the Clinton administration. The rest would be negotiated. What if one side or the other or both strongly disagrees? Why would the Palestinians disagree? 95% is far better than what they currently have. Arafat couldn't (wouldn't) agree because he had both this insane desire to have a Palestinian state "born in blood", while at the same being worried that he would be offed by Hamas or some other militant group unwilling to settle for less than complete elimination of Israel. And it being a multi-national effort, the Palestinians would be hard-pressed to refuse the effort for fear of completely being cast as intransigent and militant. As for the Israelis, we have a distinct financial angle we can use on them. Additionally, we have the ability to directly state to them that any resistance on their part will lead to international sanctions against them. Again, the key is multi-national effort aimed at diffusing the problem and dealing with Islamic militancy in the Palestinian territories. No Palestinian government, dominated by militants, should be permitted to exist... That's part of the war on terror too... Especially since so much of their rhetoric is drawn from their Jew directed conspiracies. Hawk