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In article <1992Jul28.193157.22308@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> ejk@coral.JPL.NASA.gov (Elya Kapelyan) writes:
>	   You are absolutely right when you say that the CD Accords have not 
>   been fully implemented, but the issues have more to do with Egyptian 
>   unwilligness than with the Palestians, the Jordanians, or the Martians.  The
>   primary purpose of the CD Accords was the return of the Sinai to Egypt in 
>   return for "peace", and the sections on the "autonomy" were essentially a fig
>   leaf for Sadat.  In addition, you very conveniently ignore the fact that the 
>   Palestinians rejected the CD Accords, out of hand.  So who was Israel supposed to
>   have negociated with, themselves?

That does present a problem, of course.  On the other hand, the former
Shamir government was doing all it could (legally and illegally) to
make sure that these provisions of the Camp David agreement, dead
though they were because of Palestinian (and I suspect also Jordanian)
intransigence, deader yet due to Jewish settlements in the Occupied
Territories.

>   |> Somehow, I think that the US was cheated on this deal.  We paid for a
>   |> Palestinian state, and we didn't get one.  We ought to ask for our
>   |> money back.
>   |> 
>   |> --
>   |> =Jim  eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert)
>
>	   Wrong.  We paid for a reduction of tension in the Middle East, and we 
>   got just that.  I doubt that even Carter would have been stupid enough to want
>   a Palestinian state west of the Jordan.

We paid for a lot more than we got.  We paid for a solution to the
Palestinian question, and that solution is still pending.  Ask the
victims of Palestinian terrorism (or their survivors) since the
signing of the Camp David accords if "reduced tension" has helped
much.  Ask the Palestinian youths living under military occupation if
their lives are worth anything more because of "reduced tension".

If the Camp David accord were a contract, and Israel and Egypt
industrial suppliers, and I were the contracting party, I wouldn't pay.
They haven't delivered, so I wouldn't pay.
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=Jim  eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert)