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To: skinowski who wrote (120303)	11/25/2003 1:08:08 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Perhaps then, despite Mr. Judt's embarrassment, the binational experiment might first be tried elsewhere? Say between Iran and Iraq? Or Pakistan and India? Or France and Germany? Iran and Iraq, and France and Germany, are not at war. Pakistan and India aren't really at war, either, but there is constant tension over a third country, Kashmir. So the suggestion is specious. Even more specious because Israel and Palestine are engaged in an existential struggle for the same piece of ground. If neither Pakistan nor India, nor both, obtain total control over Kashmir, they won't lost their existence. Israel is not the only country where the tension between religious and secular control of the state is troubling, but it certainly has peculiar problems due to religious influence on the state that no other "Western" democracy has.