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To: James Calladine who wrote (19910)7/25/2003 3:10:34 PM
From: Thomas M.  Respond to of 21614
 
Refugee Poll Confusion

by Casey Patrick Reilly

<<< . . . Despite the best efforts of Zionist apologists and Israel's expert propagandists to paint the poll as a blow to advocates of refugees' human rights, the results, as they have been portrayed, are devastating to Israel's racist right wing. These Zionist ideologues have always attempted to frighten the Israeli public with stories of millions of dirty Arabs returning to swamp them and undermine their ethnically pure state if the right of return were ever to be recognized. Leaving aside the pervasive racism of Israeli society that the success of these scare tactics exposes, what the poll shows - if it indeed shows anything concrete - is that only a portion of the refugees would choose to return to their former homes . . . >>>

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