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To: sea_urchin who wrote (6569)	5/21/2004 8:52:48 AM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

For this I hold the US responsible because, instead of acting as an "honest broker" and arbitrating fairly, it has come down on Israel's side and thus has enabled Israeli/Likud fanatics to do as they please. I agree. The U.S. does share responsibility for what's going on in Isreal. Isreal couldn't exist without U.S. financial support. The U.S. has not treated the Palestians with the same degree of support. The U.S. has enabled some of the more extreme elements in Isreal to do as they please. I also agree that it is in the entire world's interst to settle the Isreali/Palestinian issue as soon possible. It certainly effects politics and conflicts everywhere, including the U.S. and should be dealt with immediately. If the U.S. pulls 50% of Isreal's aid ($2 Billion or so), how fast do you think they'd be sitting at the table with the Palestinians suing for peace? How about if we withheld all of it and told Isreal to get their house in order and settle the conflict. The conflict would be over before the Presidential election this fall. Money talks, bull@$%# walks. The U.S. should use our financial leverage to force a settlement.

To: sea_urchin who wrote (6569)	5/25/2004 9:09:47 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 20039

> The history of the Jewish people is replete with persecution and oppression, including the Holocaust, so one would think they would have compassion towards others and certainly not shoot children in the back. english.aljazeera.net >>Israeli Justice Minister Yosef Lapid stunned Prime Minister Arial Sharon when he compared a television image with his personal experience of the Holocaust. Leader of the centrist Shinui Party, he has became the first cabinet minister to criticise the most recent Gaza raid and called on the cabinet on Sunday to halt the demolitions. "I saw on television an old woman picking through the rubble of her house in Rafah, looking for her medicine. "She reminded me of my grandmother who was expelled from her home during the Holocaust," political sources quoted him as saying. Lapid's grandmother died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz death camp. But an angry Sharon retorted that Lapid's remarks were "unacceptable and intolerable", the sources said. <<