Gassama, thanks for your observations. However, the US knows that they cannot fight more than one nation at a time and that is why they went around lobbying for the Arab states to back their intension to attack Iraq. Their experience in 911 showed them that they may be a world power, but they need others to help them police the world. The Arab states do not need to even fight, all they have to do is mobilize a united force and you will see a change of tone overnight from the US posture. Israel will continue to be belligerent in that part of the world because they are allowed to do so. Remember, the Boers in South Africa used the same tactic to destabilize the whole Southern Corridor, until they were given the ultimatum by the majority in SA. The US was the main supporter of Apartheid, however, did you see them come to the aid of the Boers? No, because they knew what was at stake. Israel may be a friend, but you watch, when a force is mobilized by the Arab States, this crisis will end overnight. What you have here are generals in the name of Powell, Chaney, Rumsfeldt, and Sharon. All they understand is aggression and the only way to stop them is to show them something to consider, and that is Arab States mobilize their nations and give the ultimatum that either all in this conflict perish or Israel leave Palestinian territory. I know the Arabs are not going to do that, thus the Palestinians will continue to suffer. Your suggestion for the Arabs states to use oil as a leverage is not going to happen for three reasons. One, the Arab states that pump oil have debt to their ears and money from oil they need to pump in the future has already been spent. Secondly, the oil boycott will fail because other oil producing nations will increase their production and even OPEC could not do that now. Finally, the Arab leaders' appetite for high living will not allow them to even thing in that direction. Just like Africa, nearly everything they have comes from the west, even the refined fuel they use. Chi Jaama Joe SAmbou >From: Jungle Sunrise <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: FWD: Kuwait Says U.S. Contributing to Israeli Attacks >Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:05:35 +0000 > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~