Could it be they're finally getting a clue? That just maybe Arafat's got the wrong idea, and that working with Israel will get them a lot more than Arafat's plan to keep the Palestinains poor as hell while blaming Israel?

J.

Is it possible that something good is happening here?

I'd really like to believe that, I really would. For two reasons, first, the ME has been a blight on human progress for far to long.

next, to me progress means a validation of Bush's radical approach to the problems of the ME.

The hands off approach you mean? Imagine where we'd be if we let Israel loose and stopped kissing Arafat's a** all these years. Nobel Peace Prize Lauriat my foot!

This is just too much to absorb. I've had a little vino and I'm starting to wonder if I'm seeing correctly.

Because of the Pal's track record, my first thought is 'it's a trick'.

hey no party, the only way i CAN make any sense out of what's happening in the middle east is a good bottle of wine. not EVERYONE in the m.e. is all that fired up to die for allah. maybe a few cooler heads can prevail. yeah, like that's going to happen.

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