"Gene Storey" wrote in message
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote
"Alan Minyard" wrote

And you know this how?? From Israeli polls? I am not saying that you
are
incorrect, I am simply saying that I, and I believe you, do not really
know.


I base it on adherence to the Camp David Accords by Egypt and Israel.
There
has been peace between Egypt and Israel since Egyptians decided to live
in
peace alongside Israel. When Palestinians decide they can live in peace
alongside Israel there will be a peaceful Palestine alongside Israel.

Actually they don't. U.S. Forces are deployed in the Sinai between the
two.
A few years ago they all got killed in a plane crash in Newfoundland on a
cheap two-bit airline because MAC didn't have enough crews to support
the worldwide deployments.

No, they (and it was not "all of them"--the MNF-Sinai is a battalion sized
force, and you are not fitting a battalion on a single DC-8) died in the
crash of that charter DC-8 at Gander because that is the way we routinely
move large numbers of troops--the AMC cargo haulers are better utilized
carrying the heavy boxes and rolling stock. And what's more, had you asked
any of those troops who unfortunately were onboard that aircraft which they
would prefer to make a trans-Atlantic redeployment on, a charter airliner or
a C-141, I guarandamntee you it would have been the former. Having done a
few long range deployments by both methods of conveyance, I'd have agreed
with them.

Brooks