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To: carranza2 who wrote (212357)	1/10/2007 10:21:08 AM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) of 281500

The problem is that Israel is a phenomenally successful country, one which produces tons of very innovative high tech stuff, and is otherwise a bastion of democracy in a region that has never experienced it. No, THE problem is that Israel is an ethnic country and MUST remain so, while the world at large considers that RACIST. If you want peace in the ME between Arabs and Jews, somehow this must be dealt with by one of two ways 1) Somehow allow integration while keeping safety for all parties or 2) Somehow get the world comfortable with ethnic states and rules to protect the ethnicity of groups. Unfortunately the somehows in both cases are far from clear. But it is pretty clear that we can't have one set of rules for a liberal democracy like Israel, but another set for all other liberal democracies. BTW, Bush might actually achieve some of his goals wrt to Iraq if Iraq is partitioned, and three more or less stable ethnic states result in the ME. That would at least start the ball rolling towards solution 2) above. Is it good or bad? That I'm unsure of.

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