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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (3110)	9/4/2001 12:44:27 PM
From: LV	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

I disagree with you that immigration laws that give preferential treatment to some groups, like Israel’s or Germany’s laws, are discriminatory. If not for Germany or Israel, who else will look after ethnic Germans or Jews who are oppressed because of their ethnicity? Both Germany and Israel admit many non-ethnic immigrants. Israel offered citizenship to more non-Jewish refugees on per capita basis than most West European countries – from Vietnamese boat people to Bosnian Moslems to tens of thousands Palestinians. And that was on top of assimilating millions of Jewish refugees. Every country in the world controls who it admits. Rich countries do it. Dirt-poor countries do it. Tell me, how are Germany’s preferential laws substantially different from the US laws that grant citizenship to anyone who had any US citizen ancestor, even if 5 generations removed? You want truly xenophobic nations? Just look at Japan and Kuwait. About Durban conference – you are right, it was bound to collapse in chaos, and it is a shame. I hope that some lessons will be learned before the next conference in 3 years - we need to design some reasonable rules of engagement. I suspect that there are too many interests in the world who would not be interested in that.