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To: ManyMoose who wrote (194589)	10/23/2001 12:14:02 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

Why can't the United Nations create a homeland for the Palestinians out of Arab territory? I think the Palestinians object because they and their ancestors have been living there for rather a long time... if we take the Bible as proof, since before the first Jews even arrived (the Philistines...). Certainly they've been there for 500 years, so have a pretty fair claim to live there. So why should they be palmed off with inferior land - which much of the ME is - among people speaking different tongues, with different traditions and no common history? And why should some other country in the ME be required to give up its land to these aliens? Iran might have space, possibly, but they have a different religion (Shia not Sunni) - never mind language and culture. The others are all pretty short on habitable land and water as it is... And of course there's the national pride issue, which is probably key. Reverse the question. Why not move the Israelis? LOL, and that's why. It might, once, have been an answer. Or if the Jews had stuck to the Balfour declaration of a homeland which was not exclusively theirs, maybe - but that's a different if. I can't see resettlement of the Palestinians elsewhere as a viable option. Unless the wide open spaces of the US were put on offer, perhaps...