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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (5734)	10/17/2001 5:56:24 AM
From: SirRealist	Respond to of 281500

Where were these Arab 'brothers' when Jordan controlled Gaza? Israel/Palestine is a tiny land compared to Egypt or Saudi Arabia.... like Rhode Island to Texas. So why have these 'brothers' not offerred parcels of land to the Palestinians? When have they, or their populations stopped calling for the ouster of Israel or stopped calling Israelis dogs and pigs? What have they ever contributed to any peace process ever? If the Palestinian folks had all their problems solved, it would not matter. There would be another excuse to condemn the Israelis, and another to continue condemning the US. On other track, Israel is a melting pot of its own as the Jews who settled there came from many countries. It has a highly developed society and creates good technology. It developed its H-bomb. Let us consider what many of the Arab nations have developed since 1947. Ummmmmmm...... I wonder if melting pot nations do well for a reason. And the more 'pure' nations, do they do as well? Does Iceland? I guess Japan does okay, and it's fairly 'pure', ethnically. Am I imagining things or does it seem that some nations build and others tear down? I can think of Arab writers and poets. I know they have trained engineers. But where are the inventors, the scientists, the technologists? Or does the religion say that God wants us to not create, but to settle for a hard life of simple means? And if this is true, whose cars are driven, whose TVs are watched, whose computers and airplanes and weaponry? Do they decry our materialism and use the material we created? Perhaps someone can answer these mysteries. Or explain when it became the hot trend to support Palestine like an unrequited love?