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To: michael97123 who wrote (187483)	5/26/2006 3:12:57 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) of 281500

You are overly fixated on the SA/Israel comparison. What can I say, I used to live there. There are some similarities but largely its a bad comparison imho. In Israel itself there is no apartheid and in relation to the wb/gaza, pals have had as much to do with making their lot miserable as Israel has. IMO it is a good example because: 1) The differences are ethnic. 2) One side is far richer, has vastly superior military power, and is the result of more recent immigration. 3) The powerful side dominates the otherside, and controls the bulk of the areas resources and desirable property. 4) The likelihood of amalgamation as a means of ending the differences is zero. 5) There is considerable asymmetry in both sides views of their own kin vs. the other side. 6) Demographics favor a long-term shift in power from the earlier position. My main point remains this however: Why does the USA accept AND support an ethnic state in one place, but not in another? Many American politicians are on record as saying that Israel must remain a Jewish nation, but they would blush with shame to have said that S. Africa must remain a white nation. What is the difference?

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