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To: bentway who wrote (193471)	7/27/2006 2:13:14 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

The U.S. may have to resume talks with Syria WASHINGTON - Everyone knows that Israel's Lebanon wishlist will not be met in its entirety. A number of the concessions that Israel will presumably have to agree to in the days and weeks to come have already been leaked from the various and sundry diplomatic talks being held in Beirut, Jerusalem and Rome. Hezbollah will not be disarmed, at least not in the short term. Any international force to be deployed in Lebanon will serve as little more than a buffer force along the border. The likelihood of its remaining there depends largely on the goodwill of Hezbollah, and perhaps that of Syria and Iran, too. It is similarly unlikely that Israel's kidnapped soldiers will be returned without at least a token release of prisoners. But it is the Shaba Farms that will pose one of the greatest problems for Israel. Israel recognizes that it is not its territory and ostensibly should not find it hard to hand over the keys, but conceding the area to the Lebanese government, or to a committee that will decide whether to give it to Lebanon or to Syria, will be presented as another Hezbollah victory. The Americans, too, know this.,,," haaretz.com ============= How does this kind of thing make us safer? You bully and bluster, you spend untolds amount of money, you posture and preen and have lots of parades. You show your cards and you have about half of what everyone thought you had. This is the US in Iraq. How does this make us safer? It makes us look weak and incompetent and, perhaps worst of all, uncivilized. US and Israeli PR need a serious overhaul.