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To: axial who wrote (22702)	3/30/2002 6:58:21 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It will become an article of faith among billions of people that the United States and Israel are unalterably opposed to Arabs. Where have you been Jim?? That's ALREADY the perception among many Arabs (except for those who have lived here in the US for years (including several of my Afghani friends who are now US citizens). There's nothing you can do about it. It's like the classic class struggle between the rich and poor... If you're rich, then it's automatically assumed that you got that way because you stole from the poor. Envy is one of the most vile of "deadly sins", and spawns all kinds of justification for hating, killing and maiming on both sides. But that muslim world just can't seem to come to grips with the reality that the real cause of their problems spawns from the endemic corruption or the ability to decide the course of their own economic and political future. As for the Israeli participation in the 1956 way, it's pretty easy to understand why they became involved. Nasser had blockaded the Straits of Tiran, thereby cutting off Israel's only port on the Red Sea. This act of war was ALSO one of the major provocations of the 1967 war, when Nasser again blockaded the straits in an attempt to cut off Israel's supply of oil from the Shah's Iran. And since Nasser had nationalized the Suez canal, and was forbidding any Israeli ships from transitting it, they were effectively facing a major energy crisis as a result of these actions by Egypt. And I'm not saying "nukem all".. In fact, I'm a big believer in political decapitation (eg: assassination). Had we assassinated Hitler, the world would have been saved from the loss of millions of lives, and such leaders would realize they would be directly targeted and held responsible, with their lives, for any actions they undertook. Kill Arafat, the leaders of Hamas, and any other leader that advocates the destruction of another state, and they might think twice before opening their mouths with their vile rhetoric, aimed at inflaming tensions. And that goes for Israeli leaders as well, or even our own (by those who call themselves our enemies.. ) The odds were that the plane that hit the Pentagon was trying to hit the White House instead, and we're going to have to anticipate such attempts again against US leadership. And a hundred years from now, maybe the Arabs will finally get tired of blaming all of their economic and cultural problems on other nations, and take the blame upon themselves. As it currently stands, the entire muslim world in on track to retrace 500 years of progress unless they finally come to a decision as to whether they prefer butter over guns. Hawk