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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (34965)	7/24/2002 9:36:15 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Citizenship isn't all that's required, for equality. African-Americans had formal citizenship rights for a 100 years (1860s till 1960s), before equality even began, partly, to become a reality. I didn't say it was. I said that African-Americans were a minority population. Does that mean that they were "under occupation"? No. Did they "rebel, for the same reasons all conquered peoples do?". No. They protested for equal rights within the system, not at all the same thing. When peace comes, Arab Israelis will probably do the same thing once again, and they will find Jewish Israeli allies. And the overwhelming superiority of the apartheid government, in tanks, airplanes, guns, etc., didn't keep them from losing their guerrila war. There are many differences between the South African and Israeli situation. Just for starters, the SA system was apartheid by race, there were no black citizens of apartheid SA. The SA whites were a small minority; Israeli Jews are not. Most of all, a bloodbath was avoided because the SA whites had someone to negotiate with on the other side who persuaded them then a deal could be struck and kept; the Palestinians have refused many deals and reneged on others. They are backed by an Arab world which is spewing Nazi-level anti-Semitic hatred and adding fuel to the fire, something that has no parallel in the SA situation.