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Thread #46332   Message #696824
Posted By: CarolC
23-Apr-02 - 05:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: War crimes ljc
Subject: RE: BS: War crimes ljc
My problem is with hardliners in the Israeli government such as Sharon and Netanyahu. I do not support Arafat. I don't approve of the ways that the current Israeli government is using US taxpayer money.

I would like to see less hateful language directed at Arabs and Palestinians. Both from the current Israeli government as well as from Sharon supporters in the US and Israel.

I would like the US to make foriegn aid to Israel contingent upon the Israeli government pulling out of the occupied territories, stopping the settlements (and removal of the settlers), and I would like to see George Mitchell and Colin Powell in Israel, facilitating negotiations with either Sharon and Arafat, or neither Sharon or Arafat, but with other, more moderate representitives of both peoples.

And I would like to see US foriegn aid to Israel (and to the Palestinians, if necessary) contingent upon both sides being willing to make consessions in a fair and balanced way, and both sides honoring the agreements that emerge from the negotiations.