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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (32383)	6/15/2002 5:57:29 PM
From: chalu2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>But they have a democracy in Spain, which provides a mechanism for resolving these differences.<< I have to differ on this point. The Basques will never have enough votes to gain self-determination, even if the question were on the ballot in each election. If the majority of Spaniards want to maintain a Basque colony, democracy will avail the Basques nothing.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (32383)	6/15/2002 6:55:11 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Now if the Palestinians were fighting their own Arab "brethren" in Jordan and Syria for their "homeland", rather than just attacking the Jews, I might have more sympathy for their cause. They tried in 1970, remember, and got badly whipped. Syria came in on the Palestinian side, and King Hussein wound up appealing for (and receiving) Israeli assistance, did you know that? Nasser saved Arafat that time, just about the last thing he did. Then Arafat went off to Lebanon and destroyed that country.