[techweenie]

Originally posted by john70t
ME peace can probably only be acheived by the polaritys at this point unfortunately.

A) Israel can finish the wall on the 67 lines and build a single bridge across (easy to destroy), then push the Palestinians out and not use them for cheap labor.
--Of course this would mean Israel would have to abide by international mandate such as not sabotaging Palestinians buisnesses, giving fair passage, respecting air rights, no assasignations, etc... which the Likudists will never do. Their plan is to keep the conflict going and with every victory sqeeze a few hundred yards furthur until a nice smooth border is acheived.
--Unfortunately Palestinians breed like rats and haven't integrated well into the surrounding arab countries(i.e. Jordainian coup attempt).

B) Israel can start an all-out full scale war. No arab state have nukes yet so now is a good time. Level all the major cities of Syria and Iran like London, Tokyo, Berlin, Hamburg and Dresden. Civilians? What's that? Back to the stone age.
--Only problem is that in 50 years the arabs will have nukes and a memory. and a close target. They also might have more Russian weapons than they've let on, and an all out war would damage the regional enviroment for quite while.

Yes, the problem is in Islams backwardness and blaming the rest of the world for their own lack of progress, but it's also in the westernized worlds lack of cultural respect and crass exploitation practices that they fight against.
Both sides are acting like whiny, *****y, bickery unsure frenchwomen and I personally have no sympathy for cheats and liers. If they were Japanese, there would be a compromise hammered and then everyone would live with it.
This does not involve the US.

Boy howdy. I'm in about 90% agreement with the above.

That we should not be involved is something I agree with.

We are, however, involved. We give money to all the parties; we have trade with all of them. Unfortunately, we give many times more to Israel than all the others combined, and are openly giving the Israelis weapons they are using against the Lebanese in a program of collective punishment.