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To: michael97123 who wrote (241969)	9/16/2007 10:21:09 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

In a news article in the NYTimes today, writer talks of iran's and syria's shock that not one arab state criticised israel for its syria incursion to take out whatever neither side wants made public (yet). Definitely the dog that did not bark in the night. The Syrians are now officially a wholly owned subsidiary of Iran. Hope they like it. Clear that the sunni arab states view the shiaa arc as something being actively being pursued by iran and something that cant be countered alone without israeli help. Perhaps another reason that peace in palestine may be more possible than you think. If syria blows up and there is an israeli/syrian war, is it possible that arab states might actually give unspoken support to israel and be ready to check hizbolla actions in lebanon and hamas actions in palestine? No, these conditions only spell the need for an unspoken marriage of convenience, no more. By comparison, the US-Saudi alliance has been not only spoken out loud, but fulsomely praised. Yet has that brought real peace? Have the Saudis educated their population for peace with the US, or jihad against it? Religious fanatics are driven by their religious ideology, not political needs. The rulers may be cynics but they have made their bed by now and must lie in it.