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To: Thomas M. who wrote (2759)	8/14/2001 3:32:19 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

I support Indians to be treated with equal rights as US citizens, and even compensated a bit extra for the hardships foisted on them by European colonialists. The people who had hardships foisted on them by European colonialists certainly suffered. The problem is that there are no more of them around to be compensated. The European colonies where all created hundreds of years ago and no one lives that long. I do agree with you about the "treated with equal rights as US citizens". Tim

To: Thomas M. who wrote (2759)	8/14/2001 9:01:36 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

On the other hand, the Arab minority in Israel faces a Byzantine structure of laws designed specifically to exclude them from Israeli society, as well as a harshly anti-Arab public mentality. And I could change the names and nationalities contained in your statement and find FAR MORE truth. Let's see how it sounds: "On the other hand, the Jewish minority in (pick your favorite Arab nation) faces a Byzantine structure of laws designed specifically to exclude them from Arab society, as well as a harshly anti-Jewish public mentality." Yep... sounds pretty factual to me.... It certainly represents the history of the past 50 years in Palestine. What's funny is that there are 2 Arab ministers currently in the Israeli Knesset. Where, in ANY Arab nation, are there Jewish ministers in their government? The closest this ever came to fruition was in Morocco where the late King was seen as quite tolerant of Jews and even appointed one as his economic(?) minister. It's understandable why Jews might distrust their Arab minorities. After all, since 1948, Arabs have made blood oaths to destroy Israel and eradicate every Jew living there. But that certainly doesn't explain why other Arab nations are so bent upon oppressing THEIR Jewish minorities. I mean, can you imagine an Egytian Jew declaring he was pledged to the destruction of the Egyptian Arab government? Can you imagine the fate of such a person? Tom... you really should spend a bit of time thinking about all sides of this issue before launching your ill-spoken diatribes. Everyone would love to see Jews and Palestinians living together in peace. But it's not going to happen until all sides realize that have more to gain from one another, than that which the seem dead set to destroy. It ain't pretty and it can be fairly brutal.. But both sides have to look over the brink and make the decision as to whether they want to fall into the abyss. Hawk