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To: Srexley who wrote (567248)	4/21/2004 4:26:11 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Arafat backed out of the peace talks because Israel won't agree to right of return" Don't think they ever will. Also, you were a bit misleading before with the reason this did not work. It was arafat's rejection of it, and you indicated it was a change in the Israeli government. Keep it honest. I did keep it honest.........right of return was in the Oslo Accord. I believe it was Benjamin Netanyahu who reneged and caused Arafat to back off. "People do desperate things in desperate times" This rationalization will not get the Palestinians a homeland. They need to be told (by people they respect) that the current way is a losing way, and it always will be. Giving them an excuse to act as they are is counterproductive. Particularly for the average Palestinian. You don't seem to understand.....there is no other way under the present Israeli regime. You think the Israelis are playing fair because you believe they are more like us. Under Sharon and the Likud, they are not. They say one thing to us and do another. The current status quo works well for them......sure they lose a few people each year but they get to keep the West Bank and all its water. AGAIN, Israel is very water short in a region that is water short and has been in drought nearly a decade. The WB is sitting on a huge water aquifer that Israel currently controls. "What is nice about a blood feud?" Nothing. The Palestinians should knock it off. Then they will have a homeland. You just don't get it. "Arafat helped construct the Oslo Accord" Makes it all the stranger that he rejected it and started the current infatada, which as you have acknowledged is killing a lot more Palestinians than Israelis. Why the Palestinians look up towards this Egyptian terrorist is beyond me. He is Palestinian, not Egyptian.......he was born in Cairo but he is still of Palestinian ancestry. "You can suggest a nice, buttoned down solution to the problem but I am afraid the two parties are way past that point." Until those (like you) that support the Palestinians continue to rationalize their barbaric behavior and tactics it will stay as it is. Seems like you want it that way. I want what's fair.......clearly you could care less. "However, that's not really my concern but what does concern me is the position my gov't takes in the dispute " You're going to have to get over that. The Israelis are our friends, and there is no shame in that. If the Palestinians would emulate some of the things they have done (educating their population, operating democratically, etc.) they could join in the prosperity (although it will take a while). But while they trash and ridicule these ideals, and continue to murder innocents in their national tantrum, they will doom their own future. Get over it? Uh uh. I'm afraid you'll have to catch up.......you're way behind the curve. "I want us to stop subsidizing Israel at the expense of our relations with the Arab world" You know that we do provide a bunch of aid for Egypt too, right? Get over your abhorance of the idea that we will help our friends. It may allow you to look at the problem with a more open mind that will offer more possibilities for success than you current rationalization of the Palestinian behavior and jealousy of the Israelu U.S. relationship. You're wasting my time. Have a good one!