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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ajs who wrote (2013)	4/8/2002 1:17:00 PM
From: Nukeit	Respond to of 32591

I came across these articles IN-DEPTH MIDEAST CENTURIES OF CONFLICT. Gives a history time line also. Nice short articles to give an overview of the situation. cnn.com How Palestine became Israel From antiquity until the 20th century the name Palestine more often described a region than a place with precise boundaries. It is derived from what the Greeks and Romans called the "Land of the Philistines," referring to an ancient people who were contemporaries of the biblical Israelites as early as the 12th century B.C.

To: ajs who wrote (2013)	4/8/2002 3:37:21 PM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

I don't like the dear world part. I don't hate Jewish people and neither do my friends, so I prefer not to be included in the dear world thing. Mr. Attar can speak directly to the people who have a problem with Jews, but he can't speak to the whole world as if we are all the same-thinking jew-hating creeps because he's leaving out a big constituency, people like me. I don't know what the numbers are for "nonjewish haters" or nonracists or whatever the name is, but I bet we're the majority. Hateful people speak louder than the peaceful folk, so maybe that's where Mr. Attar gets that notion the whole world hate jews (I guess being surrounded by beligerent Arab nations would help support his view. but still that's not the whole world). I can't speak for all palestinians, but I did meet one once, a doctor in fact, and he didn't want to drive Israel into the sea, he had his issues with Isreal, but he didn't strike me as a homicidal maniac. Is it naive to hope there may be a moderate faction somewhere on the palestinian side? With Arafat's security infrastructure decimated, perhaps a less fanatical or more reasonable peaceable Palestinian faction will emerge. A faction that doesn't have to fear being squashed into silence by Arafat's henchmen. Anyway, I say hurray for Israel and I hope this battle leads to peace.