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To: michael97123 who wrote (6441)	12/9/2005 10:08:07 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (2) of 542426

Hardly. Given that all the boundaries in the ME were basically made up last century and mostly after WWII, Israel's pre-1967 bounds are as good as any and better than most. It's not a Manichaen position, you realise? You - and I - don't have to be either rabid Zionist or frothing Islamist, there are far better alternatives. So don't assume or imply that because I loathe one extreme I necessarily adhere to its extreme opposite; I'm not one of those fooled by or following Rove, and I despise that method of false argument and those who practise it. But I don't like any country occupying and colonising foreign land now, the days when empire-building was a legitimate foreign policy are thankfully buried with Hitler. And I particularly don't like the way Palestinians are kept without rights and behind walls and barbed wire, forced into discontinuous little ghettoes of misery by a country supposedly our ally and a democracy; it looks bad because it is bad. Israel is still pursuing the tactics and methods of apartheid, and I believe that countries wanting to be classed as belonging to the civilised world with all its benefits should be better than that.

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