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[Adventurer]

ISTANBUL, Turkey - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday that any effort to stop growing violence between Islamic and Western societies must include an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Annan spoke after receiving a report from a high-level group of experts on ways to alleviate Muslim-Western clashes and misunderstandings.

"We may wish to think of the Arab-Israeli conflict as just one regional conflict amongst many," said Annan, who leaves his post at the end of the year. "It is not. No other conflict carries such a powerful symbolic and emotional charge among people far removed from the battlefield."

Annan said he would work along with his successor, Ban Ki-moon, to help implement the recommendations of the report, which called for renewed efforts toward the goal of establishing "two fully sovereign and independent states coexisting side by side in peace and security."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061113/ap_on_re_mi_ea/annan_israel

[mateomiguel]

In other news, bunnies and rainbows on every streetcorner would curb organized crime.

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[mateomiguel]

[Slep]

I'm sorry, unless you've walked through a checkpoint, just missed being killed by a suicide bomber or cowered during an incursion, you don't get it. The major networks do a horrible job of expressing this.

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[Kuros]

[Adventurer]

Kuros, you are right Mateus does not quite understand the mental anguish that the Palestinians feel, the feeling of being stuck between the scylla and charybdis or a rock and a hard place. There are thousands of Palestinians who have been arrested, tortured, who have had relatives who were simply killed as collateral damage, had tons of their homes bull dozed in Gaza while the world says nothing. We know that when the U.S. was hit with Sept.11th in a particular part of the country, mind you, there was so much rage. Most of Palestine's West Bank, for example, is not spared from checks points everywhere disconnecting the people from each other, settlements taking more and more land from the Palestinians, harassing settlers, farmers who sometimes cannot access their olive trees, and so many cannot get a proper education.

The Arabs and Muslims feel much sympathy when it comes to the Palestinians. And when they keep getting accounts from the West Bank and Gaza, they feel immense rage and feel they want to get even with someone. Capisce?

However, I will say I am not pleased with this Hamas government. They are quite annoying, not respecting past agreements. I will say, however, Israel has had governments that didn't recognize past agreements or understandings. Netanyahu would not recognize Oslo, for example. But, that is another topic.

[Slep]

i was reading on haaretz today that the ratio of palestinians to israelis killed since july is almost 80:1