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To: tejek who wrote (236255)	6/7/2005 10:41:04 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571040

No one is denying the Palestinians statehood except the Palestinians themselves. The U.S. has very recently promised to help fight for a Palestinian state, if only they could focus their voice into that of an elected official and slow down the violence. They have made a little progress with Abbas, but they haven't slowed the violence down. They are their own worst enemies. Somehow they've gotten it into their heads that if they can just outlast the Israelis in the ongoing Intifada, then everything will work out ok in the end. How wrong they are. One other thing I want to point out. Just about every Middle Easterner will tell you that anti-Americanism is alive and well because Americans are so obviously biased towards Israel. If only America would be more biased towards the Arabs, then everything would be ok. However, what they fail to realize is that we aren't biased towards Jews. On the contrary, we are biased towards Democracies, because we simply have much more in common with them. We have free economies, free people, freely elected officials, and other common interests. It's difficult to side with non-Democratic states over a Democracy. However, despite that, the U.S. has tried many many times to be the honest broker. The best attempt in our history was made by Clinton and the Palestinians threw it back in his face and started the Intifada. Palestinians should think on that a little. Hold the mirror up to themselves and think a little about why we might be biased towards Israel. Having said that, if I were President, my first action would be to tell Sharon, not one more penny of loans or aid money until the settlements are removed from Gaza and the West Bank. Then things would start to move.