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To: AmericanVoter who wrote (24931)	4/13/2002 9:10:12 AM
From: William B. Kohn	Respond to of 281500

I'll choose to argue with only one sentence of your c&p. "You cannot treat people as Israel has treated the Palestinians. " On the surface, the comment seems reasonable and well meant, but the problem is where you decide to call the starting point. You cannot treat people as the Arabs have treated Jews since 1880. The Arab world has killed and evicted Jews from all over since that time. A major spokesperson for the Arab world, the Mufti, worked with Hitler on a plan to exterminate Jews during the 1930's. Prior to that you evicted and murdered Jews from a region they had lived peacefully for 100's of years (Hebron 1929). You refused to negotiate or recognize my state of Israel, started many wars, evicted hundreds of thousands of my brothers from places in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, etc., killed my peaceful athletes at the Olympics, hijacked my citizens in Uganda, and started several wars, all of which you LOST. In war, to the victor goes the spoils, so the West Bank and Gaza are not occuppied. Putting things in context makes a great deal of difference. I want to find a solution to the problems of those people who call themselves Palestinians, but to assume the problem began in 1967 is just plain wrong. We accimilated the thousands of Sephardic Jews in the late '40s, why didn't the Arabs do the same. Why were the Jews from Arabia, a problem we choose to solve, while the Arab world choose to ignore their people and their plight? Why does the Arab world reward terror today, but barely spends a cent to help their brothers make something of their lives? The problem can be solved, but the first thing that needs to be recognized is that the Palestinian problem is not a Jewish problem, it's a regional problem. The region must want a just solution, and then (and only then) can a problem be applied. bill