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Old 03-06-2002, 11:21 AM  
Mark
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YouMorons..

You would prefer to live at war in your house than move house and live in peace not having to worry about your kids getting blown up on a bus or in a disco or shot on the way to school?!

With that attitude there will never be peace - peace requires compromise and israel already tried to compromise but got nothing from arafat.. it takes two to tango!


Pathfinder..

The current government only came to power when the previous government that offered peace failed to deliver - in other words when arafat walked out of peace talks and started a terrorist campaign the current government was elected to try a different approach - to fight fire with fire.

They already have autonomy (although perhaps not for much longer!) in much of the territories - that was the purpose of the Palestinian Authority which arafat heads and was the first step on the road to full independence which they rejected.. 'final status talks' are what they turned their back on..

They have been offered hundreds of millions of dollars in aid by europe, US and the arab states such as saudi arabia - much of what was promised to them was not delivered because money that was given before had a habit of disappearing without trace..

Why would they need a full army? With every country around them but one being arab they really don't need an army unlike israel which is one very small country in a region full of arab & muslim states most of which still don't recognize israels right to exist and whose stated aim is to destroy israel!

Israel is a very small place and the palestinian state would be even smaller - a jet would require a runway that would barely fit in the country! You could almost throw stones from one side of the country to the other! Unless arafat is planning on following in saddam husseins footsteps there is no reason to have a big army with that kind of hardware!
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