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To: Brumar89 who wrote (8875)	11/16/2001 10:21:27 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 23908

The Muslim Claim to Jerusalem By Daniel Pipes Middle East Quarterly Politics, not religious sensibility, has fueled the Muslim attachment to Jerusalem for nearly fourteen centuries; what the historian Bernard Wasserstein has written about the growth of Muslim feeling in the course of the Countercrusade applies through the centuries: "often in the history of Jerusalem, heightened religious fervour may be explained in large part by political necessity." This pattern has three main implications. First, Jerusalem will never be more than a secondary city for Muslims; "belief in the sanctity of Jerusalem," Sivan rightly concludes, "cannot be said to have been widely diffused nor deeply rooted in Islam." Second, the Muslim interest lies not so much in controlling Jerusalem as it does in denying control over the city to anyone else. Third, the Islamic connection to the city is weaker than the Jewish one because it arises as much from transitory and mundane considerations as from the immutable claims of faith. meforum.org

To: Brumar89 who wrote (8875)	11/17/2001 3:01:03 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Approximately ten years ago, a relative of mine, a mechanical/electrical engineer, told me that the Saudi government had leaned on those American oil companies to employ more Saudis, because the companies were not hiring the "locals". He went on to say, they were mostly incompetent, but they were "working" with them. Most of the supplies you speak of must come from Europe or America since Saudi or any country in the Arab world does not manufacture much in the line of the type of supplies they needed to drill for oil. "Wages paid to local employees don't add to the "non-resource" economy? Sure they do." As in an ancillary way. Their economy is tied to resource economy. Aside from that America or European companies did not invest in their economy, along high technology, as they have in Israel. Prior to the oil embargo (1973?), Exxon was getting their oil for 25 cents a barrel. Not bad deal! Almost as good as the deal I listened to yesterday at the Red Cross from a nurse who worked prior at a plasma center. They pay the donors there $20-25 per donation and sell the same for $2500.