>http://dynamic.washtimes.com/twt-print.cfm?ArticleID=20030214-98615336
>A Bush-Sharon doctrine?
>Arnaud de Borchgrave
>Published February 14, 2003
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> Israel is asking the U.S. for $4 billion in additional military
>assistance - in addition, that is, to the just under $3 billion a year a
>year it receives automatically - plus $8 billion in commercial-loan
>guarantees. The $12 billion question about the $15 billion grant-and-loan
>package is "What is the quid pro quo?" Is it tied to a permanent solution to
>the Israeli-Palestinian conundrum? The beginning of a dismantlement of 145
>Israeli settlements in Gaza and the West Bank? A freeze on new settlements?
>A timetable, however vague, for the establishment of a Palestinian state
>within five years?