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To: Think4Yourself who wrote (54162)	8/1/2006 7:55:21 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

A Big Squeeze On Farmers globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Mish

To: Think4Yourself who wrote (54162)	8/1/2006 8:38:25 PM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

I think a minority harbor deep hatred for a long time if life is otherwise going well. Political groups though try to use it and maintain it. If this war had never happened and there was the prisoner swap and Israel gave up the Shebaa Farms (even though the UN said the border Israel retreated to was OK - so I can't see why Israel should do that) and the Taif accords in Lebanon were implemented so that Hizbullah disarmed then in the long term I think there would be a cold peace between Israel and Lebanon because Hizbullah wouldn't find the support and recruits to fight Israel in a terrorist mode and they would have lost their more conventional fighting capability. It wouldn't matter so much what Iran or Syria wanted anymore.... Maybe this was really just a Hizbullah PR campaign... which is why Israel shouldn't have played so heavily into it... well I don't really know. The Palestinian question is altogether another one. One misunderstanding of the Middle East conflict is that it is a religious conflict. It isn't that primarily. Religion is used to form group identity and support aims which aren't really driven by religion.