and chararacterizing the comments of anyone who thinks that the terms of the Camp David Accords should be followed as someone advocating that shows a slide into emotion from reason.

Tom, half of the Israelis are fed up with the Sharon government as well.

And while maybe this hasn't occured to you yet, a war in the Near East which would inevitably follow Sharon's seizure of the West Bank and Gaza would provide China with an opportunity to attempt to "solve the Taiwan problem" by military force, should those in China advocating that course of action succeed in having their ideas adopted as policy.

This would be more really bad news, and I don't want to read it.

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