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To: Lou Weed who wrote (237131)	7/19/2007 9:54:10 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Why would improving our already positive relations with China improve our standing in the rest of the world? It's a pure numbers game. Improved relations with the US and China will affect more people and have a larger affect on the global economy than trying to settle a petty squabble between largely unimportant warring tribes. The only significant global product that the ME region produces is oil, and the specific ME region in question (Palestine-Israel) doesn't even produce that oil. The US should focus its efforts on the big picture things that will matter in the coming century (India and China), not on some small racial problems of some small relatively unimportant region of the globe. How many of the 1.2 billion Chinese and 1 billion Indians do you really think give a flying hoot about which ethnic group runs Palestine? Zero in China, and perhaps 100 million in India? That's 2.1 billion people that aren't really interested in those tribes' little war, but are interested in improving relations with the US. The US should focus on them, not 15 million sneetches in the desert.

To: Lou Weed who wrote (237131)	7/19/2007 12:47:33 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Because it IS and has been for decades!! Any road to stability in the ME depends on this speck being stable. You do agree that stability in the ME is in all our best interests?? Don't be fool enough to believe that what Arab leaders say in public is actually what they believe in private. Arab Leaders have used the Question of Palestine as a scapegoat for so long that they are like addicts. They can't do without it and attempts to solve the issue will only result in moving the goalposts. Same way that Israel withdrew from Lebanon completely, thereby removing Hezbullah's cause for "resistance". So Hezbullah claimed Shebaa Farms for Lebanon, so the fight could go on.