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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (81891)	3/13/2003 6:04:28 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<A multi-national State, or any significant minorities living on the "wrong" side, is not workable.> I will agree with you, that what the Arabs did in the Old City of Jerusalem after 1948, this was a crime. They expelled the Jews from their holiest place, and razed the synagogues. And I will go as far as saying that the crimes, the expulsions, committed by Arabs at that time (not just in Jerusalem, but throughout the Muslim world), absolve Israel from giving back anything within the 1967 borders. But that's as far as I will go. And peace is only possible in my lifetime, if Israel has leaders who will stop there, too. Small minorities, minorities that have no chance of ever becoming a majority, minorities that can never pose any great security threat, they can be tolerated. So, the Arabs (20% of Israel), they probably do not need to be expelled. The caveat here, is that Israel must treat them in a civilized enough way, so they do not get too desperate and angry, and do not start an Intifada against the Jewish State. If that happens, then Israel will be, in Nazareth, faced with the exact same choices now faced in Hebron and Jericho. And the fact that Israel formally annexed Nazareth in 1948, means nothing. After all, Israel annexed E. Jerusalem in 1967, but this was just a legalism, not "facts on the ground", the population was not Jewish, so Israel offered it to the Palestinians at Taba in 1999. If there was a Palestinian State, then those Arabs who were dissatisfied with living in Nazareth, could move to Jenin. And if they did this by choice, nobody would call it a crime. This would, hopefully, serve as a "safety valve" for Arab discontent within Israel.