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To: michael97123 who wrote (228670)	4/25/2007 1:17:40 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Iraq is a small screw up on the part of Bush (IMO) compared to the missed opportunity of doing what you outline. The region needs to haggle out the border once and for all, resolve Jerusalem fairly for both sides, and end of terrorism from Arabs. If anything, Bubba's problem at Camp David was that he didn't draw any maps. Unfortunately, I think all the principles there didn't want to actually draw anything, they wanted to be revisionists afterward as suited their views. We need the opposite. Lock them all in a room and have a GPS accurate map before they get out. Then nobody gets to spin their own version afterwards. Blame afterwards is only if someone is not following the clearly known map. If anything, on the right of return, I'd look for a more substantial area of current Israel to trade for contiguous settlements. Don't know what likely areas, but one should look for areas that had high Pal displacement, but currently have lowish Jewish population, then trade significantly more (2x, 3x) area for the EJ area. This lets Pals obtain some right of return, plus they get more area. From Camp David, the figures were more like 3% of WB obtained down in southern desert region, and I think it was a 1-1 swap. This does not look good from the Pal side, give 1 acre of EJ settlement area, get 1 acre of desert. Instead, give them areas (2x, 3x??) up north along the Jordan river, or something like that. Bush, Condi, etc need to say these are the issues: 1) Borders 2) Jerusalem 3) Right of Return 4) Security 5) Full relations with all Arab states for Israel. The US then needs to put pressure on all sides for each of the above.