we should all be working for peace, in the middle east and every where else. AND one MUST be allowed to question the policies and actions of the Israeli government without being called an anti-Semite. It's no different than our questioning/protesting against the US government during the Vietnam war, or the Gulf war, or the "Afghan Crisis" and being called anti-American, or now, a terrorist. Our government policy re: the Middle East I find reprehensible, and culpable. Sharon in my opinion is a war mongering terrorist if ever there was one. The actions of the Israeli army, in general, and in specific cases, is shameful. and the ethnic cleansing aims of Sharon's new minister are genocidal, and indeed crimes against humanity. I don't think that there can be peace for Israel without there being a Palestinian state. And for now there will be no Palestinian state without Arafat. If Sharon's aim is to assassinate Arafat, hoping the Palestinians will all move to Jordan, he is sadly mistaken. Sharon's policies will bring nothing to the people of Israel and Palestine but more bloodshed. And having a US President and many of his advisors being right wing Christians who actually believe in Biblical prophecy, Armageddon, the Second Coming and all that is truly frightening.