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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sir Francis Drake who wrote (53996)10/22/2002 7:45:05 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Well that's what happens when you have a border without a negotiated settlement first

But SFD, the Israelis withdrew to the internationally recognized border. Haven't you just been assuring me that withdrawing to an internationally recognized border magically insures peace and harmony all around? If it didn't work in Lebanon why should any sane person expect it to work in the West Bank?

As for Israel's soul -- it is a Mideastern country, SFD. Not only is it in the Mideast, but the majority of people in it never came from Europe and their ancestors never were in Europe either. That is the horrible misfit when you keep talking about "colonial" - Israel is not anybody's colony. It is surely too much to ask that the Israelis should be permanently unaffected by the sea of hatred they live in. But that won't be fixed until the Arabs stop being such losers, in their own eyes as much as anyone's. Israel's success is driving them crazy with shame. You can try to fix it by demanding that Israel commit suicide (and that is what you are demanding, though you don't realize it; until you recognize what is driving the Arabs it's easy to deceive yourself that when they demand "stolen land" back they are talking about 1967, not 1948), or by trying to haul the Arab countries into the modern world.

But Israel is not like the Arabs. You know how you tell the difference? When Israel kills Arab kids, people wince and the army appoints a commission of inquiry. When the Palestinians kill Jewish kids, they throw a party -- that was the whole point of the exercise. Remember which side danced in street on 9/11.
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