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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (68934)	3/21/2003 10:26:59 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

One may get worldwide satistics on literacy and higher education without traveling. And they may not tell much about people's INTERESTS, which was the issue, or just how profound those studies are. You might be interested in results by country for tests given to high-school & university graduates. They are most enlightening on relative education. I do urge you to talk about this with people around you who have lived abroad. They will tell you that while your comparison might be correct re rest of American public, that is not impressive in comparison to some other parts of the world. Look it up. I hesitate to say further, for fear of hitting some soft spot and being called "reckless, inflammatory, and stupid". I am not concerned with contemporary comparisons with Western Europeans because there is only remnant communities of Jews there. It was you who decided to compare Jews to "other peoples of other countries". It does not matter if there is a huge Jewish minority in Western Europe. How do you think the New York Jewish community compares to the peoples of Western Europe in terms of "interest in things intellectual"? I don't believe the Commision's report indicated that Sharon knew what was happening and did nothing. Hence my "should have I will try to say this one more time, and then this subject is closed from my end: What I am trying to say is that the Commission's report includes testimonies that clearly show that various officials of the Israeli army, including the commander of the operation, knew about the massacre AS IT WAS TAKING PLACE, and they did nothing to stop it. So it is not a question of "they should have known Arabs are bloodthirsty thugs", but "they should have stopped the killing". As I have said at the very beginning of this exchange, you may decide to believe Sharon knew nothing about this, fiddling his thumbs in a room locked from the inside, incommunicado, as a massacre was going on and people under his command knew about it. I find it VERY hard to believe. I hope this was clear.