Settlers Who Long to Leave the West Bank

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/world/middleeast/14settlers.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=settlers%20who%20long%20to%20leave&st=cse&oref=slogin

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:53 AM
Subject: Settlers Who Long to Leave the West Bank
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

    Of the several barriers to peace in the Middle East, the settlers in the West Bank deserve special prominence. If that barrier could be removed for a few billion dollars, it needs to be pursued. The U.S. has recently committed two to three trillion dollars to a war in Iraq that has delivered no dividends, although most of that sum has been hidden from the budget process. If we cannot come up with the money to make peace rather than war, perhaps our friends in Saudi Arabia will step up.

Barry Levine