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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (8271)	10/30/2001 5:41:40 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

If the Arabs had accepted the UN partition of 1947 ... The UN partition was grossly unfair to the Palestinians. Jews owned 6% of the land and had 30% of the population, but got 55% of the land in the partition. ... instead of invading the new Jewish state with five armies, the refugee problem would never have been created in the first place. As you well know, Israel has never been invaded. Zionist terrorists like Menachim Begin and Yitzhak Shamir began cleansing Arabs from the Palestinian territory in 1947, expanding Israel's borders beyond the UN partition before it even took effect. In 1948, the neighboring Arab countries mounted a weak effort to reclaim those lands that the UN had marked for the Palestinians, but failed miserably. As a result, Israel increased its borders even further beyond the UN partition. If, having determined to fight the partition, they had not evacuated the Arab populations of the cities in Jewish areas, there would have been many fewer refugees. That is a flagrant lie. The Arab countries ordered the Palestinians to stay put. Regardless, does it matter if people fled a war? Israel still was (and still is) required to allow them to return. Are the Afghanis who are currently fleeing from U.S. bombing raids relinquishing their towns and villages to us? Has the U.S. established ownership of their land now? They will always want the very best for their dear Palestinian brothers -- as long as Israel pays. Why should anyone other than Israel pay for Israel's crimes? Tom