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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (22043)	3/24/2002 4:55:33 AM
From: SirRealist	Read Replies (2) of 281500

So the Arab vote/power is an illusion and an effective tool/symbol of how seemingly democratic Israel is to the viewing world. It is an old story.... If you're going to compare MLK to the Jews, then let's consider that the 'sons of slaves' have been transplanted to a land of their own and despite the unfairness that caused more than half a century ago, they've had to fight against superior forces, initially winning partly on wits, before building up a nation that is technologically advanced and militarily strong. They have consented to share the land with its former owners, despite the fact that those former owners would like to see them exterminated. And the *ONLY* reason the land is not shared right now is because the former owners promote their victimhood and their love of genocide for the Jews instead of actually inventing, creating, and building something besides the New Naziism. The Israelis do not always get it right but the PLO always gets it wrong. They are willing to spend the centuries crying about how they have been wronged, because they refuse to advance any concept of civilization, and for those willing to blindly follow the paths of the PLO, their place on history's pitypot is their choice. Great leaders lead. Weak leaders sit amid their own fumes and are condemned to be remembered as failures. The PLO is a perfect portrait of pathetic; it is too bad that the better hearts and minds among the Palestinians have not yet risen above to demonstrate something greater than the collective stupidity of its failed leadership. Maybe someday they will. Because failure is an old story too, and a very uninteresting one.

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