<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/26169156-46f5-435d-a16f-5acaa4806f52/DDE6A0EA-73AE-4654-93A7-7354551E7CF9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.robertringer.com/tortoisespeak/ts002.html" href="http://www.robertringer.com/tortoisespeak/ts002.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.robertringer.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.robertringer.com/tortoisespeak/ts002.html"><P align="left" class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana">Reagan was right.  You cannot deal with people who refuse to play by the rules of the “civilized” world.  “Peace accords,” “peace talks,” “roadmap for peace” … blah, blah, blah, … bring on Jimmy Carter and an air-sickness bag, please.  </FONT></p> <P align="left" class="MsoNormal"> <FONT size="2" face="Verdana">Forget about an Israeli peace treaty with any of the bad guys.  I suppose it could conceivably happen with Lebanon, which has the potential to be a civilized country, but only if its government is willing to wipe out Hezbollah.</FONT></p> <P align="left" class="MsoNormal"> <FONT size="2" face="Verdana">Other than that long-shot possibility, you can count on Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Al Qaeda, et al to periodically start skirmishes with Israel until they believe they have the military might and weaponry to wipe that civilized little country off the map.  </FONT></p> <P align="left" class="MsoNormal"> <FONT size="2" face="Verdana">At that point, either Israel will light up the Middle East with a nuclear fireworks display or it will cease to exist.  If it’s the latter, the Arabs will undoubtedly miss their Israeli catch-all excuse for their troubles and will have to be content with just fighting each other again.</FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DDE6A0EA-73AE-4654-93A7-7354551E7CF9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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