Okay, so the E.U. and the U.S. are playing hardball in their drive to upend the recent Palestinian elections (declare them invalid? re-do them more to our liking? who knows...) and the weapon of choice is a good one: money. The demands on Hamas vary, but generally revolve around two things Hamas must do in order to keep the about $1 billion a year in western aid flowing: renounce violence as a political tactic, and recognize Israel (which is now withholding tax payments due to the Palestinian authority). Something tells me Hamas isn't going to put away its weapons (unless Israel renounces violence, too, which ain't gonna happen) and getting down on one knee to the Israelis is likely to make the Hamas leader who does it a big, fat assassination target.
So what now? Well, the West could mess around and push the Palestinian people (like we already have done with the Iraqi Shia) into the arms of Iran... and not just the Hamas members, who already are in bed with the Iranians -- the regular folks running shops or taking theid kids to school every day. Want to radicalize the entire Palestinian population? Cut them off entirely.
<%
dim done
done = request.form("done")
if done = "" then
done = "No"
%>
Tell a friend
<%
Else
if request.form("done") = "Yes" then
'sets variables
dim email, sendmail
email = request.form("email")
Set sendmail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
'put the webmaster address here
sendmail.From = "webmaster@aspbasics.com"
'The mail is sent to the address entered in the previous page.
sendmail.To = email
'Enter the subject of your mail here
sendmail.Subject = "Check out this website"
'send a specific page or send a site url
dim url
'url = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
url = "http://www.aspbasics.net"
'This is the content of the message.
sendmail.Body = "Site recommendation from a friend!" & _
vbCrlf & vbCrlf & "A friend has sent you this email and thought you would should check out this site." & _
vbCrlf & url & vbCrlf
'this sets mail priority.... 0=low 1=normal 2=high
sendmail.Importance = 1
sendmail.Send 'Send the email!
response.redirect Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
'Response.write ("Sent to ") & email
End if
End if
%>
"[T]he practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.' Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 84, August, 1788
