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To: Elroy who wrote (192859)	7/24/2006 8:43:59 AM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Perhaps a better way of expressing it is that the conflict in the ME is about the separation of church and state. Better rhetoric is a fine thing, but I am not sure what you mean by the above. Is it that Israel is supposed to be a "religious" state? In practical terms that is not true. It is a secular pluralistic democracy. Perhaps, you are trying to emphasize that to Muslims the very existence of Israel presents an insurmountable religious dilemma. That is true, since under their dogma not even a sliver of what was at any time perceived as part of Dar-al-Islam can ever be allowed to revert to "infidel" control. To my knowledge, in Islam there is no separation between the political and religious. Comparing a (hypothetical) dissolution of Israel to Czechs and Slovaks going their separate ways is... pardon me, silly. It would certainly be a bloody process. Maybe it would not be a wholesale Holocaust, as many imagine, but it would be... harsh and bloody. Israelis are fighting to prevent this from happening and, hopefully, in time things may chill down.

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