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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (17400)	1/28/2002 2:10:58 AM
From: Math Junkie	Read Replies (2) of 281500

I'm thoroughly enjoying the high quality of these discussions. The historical discussions, in particular, are very interesting, and very illuminating. However, I don't think right and wrong for today can be discerned from what one side's parents or grandparents did to the other side's parents or grandparents. U.S. policy in the Middle East going forward should be based on whether the goals of the participants are something we can support. What do the Palestinians want, really? What do the Israelis want, really? It seems to me that these are the questions that need to be answered. Some people seem to want to put things back the way they were before some war or another. That does not represent any kind of moral high ground, because there is no objective way to say at what point in history things were set up the "right" way. We want to try to avoid any more genocides, mass starvations, or refugee crises. Those should be the guiding principles.

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