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Subject: Don't know

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Mark7

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Date Posted: 21:48:35 03/11/02 Mon
In reply to: Mark7 's message, "I did" on 00:00:11 03/08/02 Fri

I'm not sure the Saudi plan is so great either. I believe any plan that doesn't include some reparation for the Palestinian refugees in 3rd countries (Lebanon is first to my mind) is likely to fail.

I don't see how the displaced Palestinians in Lebanon would accept such a peace, just so Arafat can keep a nice home by the Mediterana.

Any peace plan where there is some reparation and consideration to victims of the Arab Israeli wars would be unacceptable to Israel.

MOstly, we live in an American world, where Israel backed by the US is winning militarily, so they have all the incentive to keep pushing for more land.

Israel's security, sad to say, would be strenthened if they could achieve a larger Israel, with a new cleansing of Arab populations within it's mist. A 10 or even 15 million Israeli nation is perfectly posible, economically and militarily more secure than a 4 or 5 million Israeli nation.

And no US administration would object to a few more massacres of the Sabra or Chatilla type. We didn't do much about the first, why bother the second time it would happen?

After all, in the average American mind, all Arabs are terrorists, so a good Arab is a dead Arab, just as a good Indian used to be a dead and lanless one.

And without American concern, no other nation today can, or will do anything. But times change. Few years may change the power positions and the policies of today are likely to be remembered for many generations in the Arab world.

My prediction is that in the next year or 2 we shall have another big Israeli-Arab war, possibly with Siria and Lebanon, where Israel will get another chance to a landgrab.

America will not raise an eyebrow to anything Israel will do.

Let's see if it haepens or not.

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