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To: MNI who wrote (12800)	6/24/1999 12:44:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

You are in a better position to know than I, certainly...and the American expression is:"What is Gustave's problem?", which has an undertone of exasperation...

To: MNI who wrote (12800)	6/24/1999 1:00:00 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 17770

MNI, you forget to factor the sociological bias into your ''xenophobia equation''. As a yuppy member of what a French scholar calls the hyperbourgeoisie, you aren't confronted to the daily hassle of common people. The same is true for the Israeli/Arab relationship: a few years ago, BusinessWeek was portraying Saudi businessman Prince Al-Whaleed, nephew of King Fahd. One picture showed him aboard his yacht, chatting with Reichmann, the real estate tycoon of a Jewish/Canadian descent! Both men were staunch Orthodox fellows: Reichman would never do business on a Sabbath and Al-Whaleed would still hold important meetings in his Bedouin desert tent (another picture showed him sitting on the floor with a depressed Citicorp CEO John Reed...). Yet, their (diplomatically) opposite backgrounds didn't prevent them from becoming business partners (in Reichmann's Olympia & York ailing flamboyance). Meanwhile, Israeli settlers were scrambling day and night with deprived Palestinians in the Occupied Territories --the moral is....?