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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (298675)	8/7/2006 3:14:24 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578495

Gotcha. My proposal for US disengagement from Israel's battle involved granting US citizenship to every Israeli that requested it (we basically owe them that) plus a generous relocation stipend to encourage them to move (which could be paid for with the cancelation of annual US aid to Israel). The basic idea is the US is a fine place for Israelis to live happily, the endless cycle of violence for the country is their battle and not ours, so any Israeli that wants to stay and make war for another 100 years is welcome to do so, just without US support. Those that want to move would have the opportunity for a fine peaceful life filled with baseball, high school proms and fireworks on the 4th of July that are just harmless fireworks, not Katyusha rockets. This is not a recipe for peace in the region, it's a recipe for removing the US from a war which is not ours, and is foreign to our national values (promoting an ethnic nation as opposed to an open, multi-cultural nation). It sort of matches your views, with the exception of asking someone else to get the US out of a situation it has gotten itself into (you want the Arabs to pay for relocation).

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (298675)	8/7/2006 3:17:44 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578495

It's kind of silly to disagree with the 1948 UN resolution now, lest you want to go all the way back in history and correct every single border that was "wrongfully drawn" in your mind. I think you are making a mistake by giving the UN's Yes vote more weight than the No vote of every neighbor of Israel's at the time. Bolivia's YES should count less than Epypt's NO in determining Egypt's border. In the vote to partition Israel-Palestine every Arab UN member said "NO". Although they had less votes in the UN, in the real world the votes of the neighbors in determining borders ought to have more weight than the votes of the countries on the other sides of the planet.