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To: KLP who wrote (57359)	11/15/2002 3:07:32 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Despite what many argue, Arab and Muslim rage at the United States has had very little to do with actual U.S. policies--policies that have been remarkably pro-Arab over the past 50 years Also, the Arabs don't ask for what they really want (because they've figured out that they won't get what they really want). So even when they get what they ask for, they aren't happy. This has a long history. In 1920 prominent Arab leaders from the Mandate of Palestine expressed their fears to Churchill that they would be forced out of their lands by the Jews. Churchill assured them that no one would be forced to sell and land, and that the Jews would be required to build up the lands and economy to support all their immigrants. Everybody would benefit from the economic development. Everything Churchill said was sincere and turned out to be true. It didn't matter as what they really wanted was for the Jews to continue to enrich them by paying huge prices for land, including previously unsalable wasteland, but not to change the neighborhood by moving in. Since the creation of Israel, the Arabs have been asking for balance. They haven't been happy when they had it, because what they want is for the US to be as anti-Israel as they are. Certainly, every time the US has said, 'we want to pursue balance and are prepared to press Israel for concessions, only you must do the same on the Arab side' the Arabs have conspicuously failed to come through.