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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (20798)	12/23/2002 11:00:05 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27666

Thank you for the link on Nobel Prize winners. Actually, I knew the number was not 90%. But I over exaggerated for a good reason. Anyway, 36% of all Nobel Prize winners in the U.S.A is a very significant number disproportionate to the relatively small population of Jews in the entire world! I am also aware of Arab contributions to math and astronomy etc in Alexandrian times. To be sure, the Arab sun had set a long time ago. As for the Arabs' claim that they are not related to the Jews from Abraham, I saw that in a piece of unadulterated Palestinian propaganda. I believe I have posted a link to that propanaganda shit a month ago???????

To: zonder who wrote (20798)	12/23/2002 1:02:58 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27666

There is a study out there that says Palestinians are practically the same as Jews genetically, so I guess the claims that Arabs and Jews are not related are not based on fact. Of course they're not. Doesn't stop the PLO from claiming that Jews have nothing to do with Arabs or the land of Israel. Arafat just fired Nusseibeh for the heresy of admitting that Jews do, indeed, have some historical connection to Jerusalem. Besides, you might like to look into history of Arab scientists and especially mathematicians, one of whom discovered "zero", thus making arithmetics as we know it possible. Correction - Indian mathematicians discovered zero and were the first to use what we refer to as Arab numerals; the Arabs learned it from the Indians, and transmitted it to the West. While Arabs were great scientists and scholars a thousand years ago, please name some recent discoveries. It should be quite unnecessary to point out the obvious here, but the Arab nations in general are extremely poor AND they are being dominated by their religious rules, which, incidentally is not the best ground for scientific studies to flourish News to me that Egypt, Syria or Iraq have relgious governments. And poverty is sure an odd excuse for the world's chief oil-producing region. Its not easy to figure out exactly what went wrong in that part of the world, but easy excuses are not going to make matters clearer.