Essat over Middle East Tension
... In doing so, Mr. President, you could hurt relations even farther with European nations who are becoming more and more hostile toward Israel every day. Mr. President, there are pros and cons to whatever plan of action you take. How will you try to encourage Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat to come to an agreement that Arafat will not back out of at the last minute as he did when President Clinton was in office. The issues regarding the Middle East, sir, do not just stay to the Middle East alone. Since al-Qaeda is behind most of the Palestinian terrorist attacks if you move in the direction of supporting Israel even more, then we could see an escalation of attempts by al-Qaeda to attack America. Trade will be effected with other countries, as well as having close allied-ship with any Arab nation. No, it is not an easy road that awaits you sir, especially since those are only the very basic questions that you have to deal with on this topic. The Church in America is also becoming more and more split over the Middle East debate. Here again you must try to encourage common ground between denominations and faiths in the States. Mr. President, whatever you do please take into careful consideration that whatever you do will in some way or another deal with the Islamic faith. The reason that...