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The territories are small enough to allow for the Palestinian question to be answered quickly and efficiently. Total deportation shouldn't take more than a few months to a year.

In other words: ethnic cleansing.

Total disregard for Palestinians as human beings doesn't seem to take more than a few seconds... not surprising from you. Ariel Sharon might even feel the same way; given his record, I wouldn't doubt it. But, for the sake of preventing this from remaining a simple flame against your extraordinary ignorance and racism, Lee, let me remind you:

- The Palestinians were there first. They have as legitimate (and far more recent) a claim to having been invaded by the founders of Israel as have the Irish vis a vis the English.

- Forced expulsion of the Palestinians from the scant remainder of their original homelands will not magically make Israel's borders less porous, either to rockets, suicide bombers, or Syrian armored divisions. Besides being morally reprehensible prima facie, relocation of the Palestinians at gunpoint will violate the national sovereignty of whatever country they are forced into (recall which countries border Israel...), which, especially in these hairtrigger times, is more than ample justification for a military response.

- Many Palestinians will refuse. What then, Lee? Shoot them where they stand? Slobodan Milosevic is on trial for crimes against humanity for doing that - but, perhaps you don't think it's a crime, since you are already on record as believing some people are less human than others.

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