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To: Srexley who wrote (566891)	4/20/2004 11:36:10 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Why does rejek ignore that? Why is easy, what came first really does not matter. -->rejek stupidity-->rejek hatred----->\| ^ v \|<--rejek hatred<--rejeck stupidity<---

To: Srexley who wrote (566891)	4/20/2004 4:06:08 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Why is it that you start the history between the Israelis and Palestinians at the point when Palestinians suicide bomb?" I actually start it at the 1967 wars. I believe Israel has a right to exist, and this is when the arabs made a serious effort to overturn that right. That is when the rules change imo. This is 2004. No nation is disputing Israel's right to exist. And if they were, Israel has more than enough firepower to take then out.......thanks, in part, to us. However, Israel is disputing Palestine's right to exist. That's where the Hamas are smart......." A common tactic of terrorists is to take advantage of the poor and helpless. Call it smart if you want, but I look at it more like evil. It's time for the Palestinian PEOPLE to get smart and REJECT groups like Hamas. Too bad their aren't more educated arab leaders that will give that message. That alone would go the furthest towards middle east peace. But there are too many like you who justify the actions of the murderers. Palestinians turned to Hamas because playing it smart or right was getting them no where. If you insist on seeing this from one perspective, you will never see the grievances on the other side. Maybe you don't want to.......maybe you have a vested interest in the status quo. "Why did Israel start building settlements in the WB and Gaza as early as the early 80s?" See comments on 1967 (and 1973 for that matter) wars. The rules changed then. Why do you ignore that? So you're saying that because Israel got attacked by Syria or Egypt in 1967, that justifies them building new towns on land that was supposed to be for Palestinians. That makes no sense.

To: Srexley who wrote (566891)	4/20/2004 6:16:34 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 769670

This is an initial result of our twisted foreign policy when it comes to Israel. Jordan is one of the few Arab states where we still have a decent relationship. *********************************************************** U.S. Seeks to Mend Fences with Abdullah Tue Apr 20, 2004 02:32 PM ET (Page 1 of 2) By Adam Entous NEW YORK (Reuters) - The White House scrambled on Tuesday to mend diplomatic fences with Jordan's King Abdullah, who abruptly postponed a meeting with President Bush because of concerns over the U.S. stance on the Middle East. Bush sparked a backlash in the Arab world last week by endorsing Israel's right to hold on to some West Bank settlements on land captured in the 1967 Middle East war. He also said a right of return by Palestinian refugees to Israel was unrealistic. "We understand that there are some domestic issues involved here and we respect King Abdullah's decision to postpone (the meeting) for a couple of weeks," White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters traveling with Bush in New York. Seeking to stem the dispute with a key Middle East ally, McClellan added that Bush had "made it very clear" that the issues in dispute would be resolved in final status negotiations between the parties. Abdullah had been scheduled to stop in Washington to meet with Bush on Wednesday after a trip to California. Instead, the king flew home and the meeting with the president was tentatively rescheduled for the first week in May, officials said. In Washington, Jordan's Foreign Minister Marwan al-Muasher, who met Secretary of State Colin Powell instead of Abdullah as had been planned, said the U.S. administration also reassured him that Bush was not dictating the terms of a final peace settlement. "I was very reassured by what the secretary and the administration had to say regarding the need not to prejudge final status issues and leave that to the parties themselves," Muasher told reporters. "We both agreed that the Israeli plan, the withdrawal from Gaza, should be a part of a bigger effort, indeed an effort to resume the road map toward a two-state solution which should be the only acceptable outcome in this process." Further stoking anger in the region was Israel's assassination on Saturday of a top Hamas leader, Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi. Many Palestinians said Washington bore some of the blame by sending a signal to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that he could do what he pleased. In comments sure to provoke more consternation, Sharon said on Tuesday that Israel would keep killing top militants. "We got rid of murderer number one and murderer number two and the list is not short," Sharon said. After the assassination of Rantissi, the White House urged Israel to consider the consequences of its actions. Continued ... reuters.com