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To: Elroy who wrote (190953)	7/5/2006 1:45:20 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Well that's my idea as well. You agree with my earlier argument that the US should disengage and withdraw its support for Israel because its their fight and not ours? I thought you disagreed with that. I don't mean that the US should announce that it's a matter of complete indifference if Tehran nukes Tel Aviv - that's the end point of the non-interference you propose, since the Arabs and Iran don't mean 'stop interfering so we can work out a deal'; they mean 'stop interfering and help us destroy Israel.' I mean that they should stop blowing whistles and trying to referee the Israeli/Pal conflict. Which seems to be happening in Europe and the US already, not by a change of policy but by Palestinian political idiocy. When you compare this current round of fighting to the last in 2002, the Pals are getting much less traction with cries of war crimes and fake massacres. The Israelis have given up the dream of Greater Israel and are ready to settle. But the Pals have not given up the dream of Greater Palestine and want to fight on. It seems strange; normally, the weaker party doesn't want to keep fighting on; but nothing is normal in this conflict since Israel has been so restrained for reasons internal and external that the Pals always know that they don't the risk the clobbering they'd get if they tried such stunts on Egypt or Jordan. And they don't have to worry about how to fund their war since the whole world gives them welfare. Basically, we're waiting for Palestinian exhaustion before any progress can be made. And new leadership.