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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (194598)	8/2/2006 10:26:55 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Baloney. The US and Israel did whatever they could to turn back the democratic tide because the rightwing governments only believe in 'democracy' when people vote their way. They look at one election, freak out and head immediately to the armory. JERUSALEM -- Taking its first concrete step against the Hamas-led Palestinian parliament a day after the legislators were sworn in, the Israeli government decided yesterday to stop handing over tens of millions of dollars in tax revenues it collects each month on the Palestinians' behalf.... Meanwhile, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said Israel was counting on the United States to help convince other nations not to support a Hamas-led authority, something he expects US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to stress on stops this week in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates. But, fearing an international backlash, Israel opted against harsher measures proposed by security officials, such as closing crossings from Gaza into Israel for goods and workers...." boston.com npr.org "...Tax breaks, government subsidies and other benefits were used to populate the settlements, as well as the assurance that the Israeli Defense Force would be on hand to protect the 8,000 to 9,000 settlers surrounded by 1.3 million Palestinians...." ----VS---- "Does the U.S. have a position regarding the West Bank? The United States government has never recognized the settlements. But President Bush said last year that "new realities on the ground... make it unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return (to) the armistice lines of 1949." Some in the Sharon government took that as an American endorsement of Israel's claim to the large West Bank settlement blocs." npr.org --------------- Compare the costs of perpetual war to the costs of negotiations, bribery and carrots. Try the half trillion cost of war in Iraq over the cost of flyovers and the costs of sopping up old Soviet arms and funding Brewster Jennings and Valerie Plame. Rightwingers are always quick to war, always quick to thuggery and mass murder and forever slow to do the cost-effective, long-lasting and difficult thing.