Resolving Israel issue more helpful

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Written by Jack Kirkwood Jack Kirkwood
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Published: 28 September 2002 28 September 2002
Last Updated: 30 August 2007 30 August 2007
Created: 28 September 2002 28 September 2002

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Resolving Israel issue more helpful The president's eloquent recital of Saddam Hussein's violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions is chilling, but not a cause to make war for his removal.

09/24/02

The United States, in cooperation with the U.N. Security Council, has placed sanctions on imports and enforced no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq. Seven years of inspections followed by destruction of weapons stockpiles and production facilities have greatly reduced Hussein's capability for aggression against others.

A war could upset budding autonomous governments in the north, under the protection of no-fly zones.

It would be more helpful to resolve the Israel-Palestinian issue than to risk inflaming Arab hatreds. They have long criticized attempts to enforce Security Council resolutions against Arabs, while Israel gets by with flouting U.N. Resolution 242, which demands return of Palestinian lands to Palestinians.

JACK KIRKWOOD Beaverton