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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (115524)	9/23/2003 1:52:48 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Good reply, LL. Palestine was feudal and most of the people were felahin living in mud huts. Today it's not PC to be in favor of development unless it miraculously happens with any cultural contamination but that's not life either. I believe Churchill (a definite pro-colonial voice) put it well when he said in the thirties that he didn't believe in letting sleeping dogs lie. The Zionists had just electrified Palestine, he said, and the Arabs would not have done it in a hundred years. Most of the land the Zionists bought was wasteland anyway and had to be reclaimed for agriculture. The whole Jezreel valley was a malarial swamp. Steven is correct that political unrest was the reaction to Zionism, but it was the third reaction. The first reaction was large-scale Arab immigration into Palestine; the second was internal political unrest as the Mufti consolidated his position with a wave of assassinations; the third was the Arab revolt. Thus he established the Palestinian pattern where voices of moderation and compromise are called traitors and are silenced and then they fight for all or nothing. And get nothing.

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